Parents Caring for a Child with a Mental Disorder Parents caring for a child with a mental disorder can experience the phenomenon of psychological stress (Dyson, 1997; Manning, Wainwright, & Bennett, 2011; McStay & Trembath, 2014; Paynter, Riley, Beamish, Davies, & Milford, 2013; Wolf, Noh, Fisman, & Speechly, 1989). A mental disorder is an impairment in psychological or behavioural tendencies, which may cause a person to show disruptive, violent or harmful behaviour to themselves or others…
Social workers are often expected to use the concepts risk and resilience to assist clients with overcoming adversity as well as identifying their strengths as a source of intervention. Fraser, Richman, & Galinsky (1999) has defined risk as “the probabilistically as any influence that increases the likelihood of the onset of a problem or maintains a problem state” (Fraser, Richman, & Galinsky, 1999). Although social workers assist clients in reducing risk, they also assist clients with adapting…
What would my employees think? Am I a pushover? Will more complaints occur? In order to avoid these questions and any resulting regret the decision was made based on the regret theory (Plous, 1993 p.101). 3. Compare and contrast your understanding of judgment and/or decision making using these three different theoretical approaches. My understanding of the judgment was based on the surrounding context. The baseline for the behavior of the employee was determined by a reference point,…
Loring Jones’s article Measuring Resiliency and Its Predictors in Recently Discharged Foster Youth is a study where 97 foster youth are interviewed six months after they are discharged from the foster care system. The study took place at a foster care residence that uses a “residential education” approach. This means the emphasis at this facility was on education and social development. The interview is used to see how resilient the youth are based on predetermined predictors for being resilient…
Nursing has been a rewarding and satisfying career for many years. However, the workload can put stress on someone. The topic I choose to write about is stress management and reduction for nurses. I choose this topic because nursing can be a stressful career and with the right management techniques can help overcome these stress mechanisms. Someday I will be a nurse and it will be beneficial for me to learn some of these techniques. I will also do a group presentation for my class about this and…
Additional ways of strengthening resilience may be helpful. The key is to identify ways that are likely to work well for you as part of your own personal strategy for fostering resilience.” (The Road to Resilience, n.d.) With support from the counselor, family and friends anyone can overcome a crisis. References Kanel, K. (2015). A Guide to Crisis Intervention. In K. Kanel, A Guide to Crisis Intervention. Stamford, : Cengage Learning. The Road to Resilience. (n.d.). Retrieved…
children develop resilience toward their ACEs. Cultural traditions, better developed self regulation skills and a sense of having some control over personal circumstances have all been associated with moderating the negative impacts of childhood adversity and childhood adverse experience (Bellis, 2017). Murray at an early age developed self regulation skills as well as having a sense of control over her personal circumstances that happened in her life. She developed resilience at an early age,…
educators and mental health experts put together a social and emotional learning program to help these individuals. The program’s aim is to teach the teachers skills of mindfulness and resilience, to then bring into their own lives, and to teach these educators how to balance their personal and professional lives. Inner Resilience has many core platforms, ranging from residential retreats, professional workshops, inner life series, parent workshops and a set K-8 curriculum for teachers. Though…
There is little research on individual resilience factors for Canadian Aboriginal; however, there is still some research that discusses possible factors that might increase a risk for Canadian Aboriginal individuals on poor adjustment. First, this essay analyzed three different articles to determine…
Adversity is a factor in every person’s life, but not everyone is lucky enough to possess resilience. Resilience is the ability to prevail when faced obstacles in life. There are many methods people use to gain resilience, and there are many reasons why people cannot, but one reason why people never become resilient is because they live a life with unsupportive or detrimental parents. Elizabeth from the short story “Jericho” by Margaret Price and the boy from “Untitled” by Anonymous are key…