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The Pros And Cons Of Helping Professions

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As members of helping professions, I completely agree with you that it is our responsibility to understand the probability of stressful situations affecting people in different ways. Becoming aware of the mediating variables that indicate a causal chain of factors in development and the moderating factors that can somewhat protect the individual from a possible negative outcome can help us find areas of strengths in people’s lives and build on those to achieve positive developmental outcomes (Broderick & Blewitt, 2015, p.

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