Read the paper. In one or two paragraphs, describe what is meant when the writer says “Most entities prefer outsourcing professionally qualified consultants in threat assessment process.”
Risk Factors and Risk Assessment
In risk factors and risk assessment process, often referred to as threat assessment and mitigation process, correlating proponent and component of the likelihood of an occurrence of hazard is vital. The process of threat assessment ensures that management team in a given setting use specific approaches in evaluating the situations that might lead to the occurrence of dangerous incident, fear, unsafe situation, unsafe behavior, or hazard. Most entities prefer outsourcing professionally qualified consultants in threat assessment process. Carrying out risk assessment helps entities in developing risk prevention, remediation, and management strategies necessary for successful execution goals and missions.
Risk factors: Social, familial, and psychological
Human behavior and characteristics borrows a lot from the social setting. Association with rogue cultures, involvement in gangs, and feelings of social rejection are some of the societal tendencies that increase the chances of engagement in activities that increases exposure to risks. Similarly, family set up and behavior of the parent and elders in the family inform the probability of one’s engagement risky behaviors (Mandel, 1997). For example, authoritarian parents, harsh punishment, inadequate parental engagement with the kids, insufficient emotional attachment to parents, and substance abuse among the parents set precedence for ambiguous lifestyle that are vulnerable to manipulation. These, in most cases, increase an individual’s chances of engagement in rogue and risky activities. In some extreme cases, risk factors arise from individual psychological disabilities. These may include factors such as low IQ, involvement with substance abuse, recurrent aggression, and history of victimization, low self-esteem, depression, poor behavioral control, and emotional failures. These factors present an emotional disability in controlling psychological demands of an individual thus making vulnerable to risky behaviors (Mandel, 1997).
Remedy for social factors
Different risk factors demand different control and management measures. Mechanism used in management of social factors may fail in situations arising from familial factors. In this context, understanding the root cause of a risky behavior becomes a vital point in threat assessment and development of remedial measures. Social risk factors are easy to prevent, mitigate, and manage in comparison to other risk factors probably due to the social nature of the remedial measures (Barrera, 2006). Since social factor arise from learning activities within a social setting, instituting an unlearning process becomes much easier than in controlling psychological and familial factors that are often emotive and sporadic. Strategies such as developing effective a relationship at school to remedy detachment from school, developing strong peer group activities to build up a broken relationship and win the anti-social groups offer ample avenue for corrective social factors.
References
Barrera, A. (2006). Risk factors associated with major depressive disorder among adolescent Latinas. New York: Wiley and Sons.
Mandel, H. (1997). Conduct disorder and underachievement: Risk factors, assessment, treatment, and prevention. New York: Wiley.
