The developmental risk factors my niece was exposed to by my sister is the medication that was left over the counter.Though my sister is divorced from her husband her husband use to be an alcoholic so maybe my niece saw what was happening when she was growing up. My niece is following her father’s footsteps. The protective factors are that my sister and her partner feel that they have been getting closer to my niece. The theoretical perspective I believe would describe what was going on with my niece in relation to her family, friends, and the neighborhood is the social learning theory. The social learning theory states that “the model effects begin with observation and imitation of substance-specific behaviors, continued with social reinforcement
