; and (D) make a contribution to their community. (4) The term protective factors means strengths, skills, resources, and characteristics that— (A) are associated with a lower likelihood of negative outcomes of adversities; or (B) reduce the impact on people of toxic stresses or a traumatic experience. (5) The term psychosocial problem means the ways in which an individual’s mental health or behavioral health problem disturbs others such as children, families, communities, or society. (6) The term public health approach to mental health means methods that— (A) take a population-level approach to promote mental wellness and resilience to prevent problems before they emerge and heal them when they do appear, not merely treating individuals one at a time after symptoms of pathology appear; and (B) address mental health and psychosocial problems by— (i) identifying and strengthening existing protective factors, and forming new ones, that buffer people from and enhance their capacity for psychological and emotional resilience; and (ii) taking a holistic systems perspective that recognizes that most mental health and psychosocial problems result from numerous interrelated personal, family, social, economic, and environmental factors that require multipronged community-based interventions. (7) The term resilience means that people develop cognitive, psychological, emotional capabilities and social connections that enable them to calm their body, mind, emotions, and behaviors during toxic stresses or traumatic experiences in ways that enable them to— (A) respond without negative consequences for themselves or others