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Reflect on your fieldwork or other professional experience and identify a case where it would have been beneficial to employ resiliency theory.
There was a five-year-old boy with medical issues who had been removed from his biological parent’s custody. The parents were unable to care for him because of his extensive medical issues, so now he was a ward of the state.
Describe the presenting problem in one concise sentence.
Finding a permanent home for the child
Describe an intervention you would implement to promote resiliency.
The child, in this case, is missing the proper care that most children receive from their parents. The lack of knowledge, understanding, or both has hindered his birth parents from giving him the proper care that he needs; because of this, he now needs a permanent home where he can get the proper care that he needs. An intervention that I would implement to promote resiliency is trauma-informed care. He has gone through a lot with his parents and may be suffering from a lack of self-worth because of not being with his parents any longer. This theory allows the individual to receive services for the trauma they may have experienced.
Identify an instrument from the Smith-Osborne and Whitehill Bolton’s article that would be appropriate when employing a single-subject design to evaluate how effective the intervention is in increasing the client’s level of resiliency.
I would use the Resilience Scale for Children and Adolescents (Smith-Osborne & Bolton, 2013).
Explain why you selected the instrument.
Although this instrument is not appropriate for a child of this age, it is the scale that the child can relate to the most. This scale also measures how a child relates to things around them as well as their emotions, which is important when dealing with a child who may have been mistreated (Smith-Osborne & Bolton, 2013).
Reference
Smith-Osborne, A., & Bolton, K.W. (2013). Assessing resilience: A review of measures across the life course. Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work, 10(2), 111-126. https://doi.org/10.1080/15433714.2011.597305
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