With resiliency becoming such a popular theme within the social work profession, it is becoming increasingly important for social workers and social service providers to find ways of improving their services. Not only by pinpointing resilience in clients but also finding ways of encouraging resilience in sub optimal situations, especially with children. As children face developmental delays when faced with significant risk and adversity, it is important that their psychological and physiological needs are taken into account by all types of service providers. The idea of childhood resilience is very important in the case of Jessica White, the ways in which Jessica shows resiliency and why it is important to both, her individual self and her
