1. A Frame Work To Strength
Resilience
Resilience can be defined as: ‘Normal development
under difficult conditions (Fonagy et al 1994).
This is to say, we find and strengthen protective factors
for young person. In some cases if those protective
factors cannot be found then other thresholds and
interventions must be considered.

2. Three ecological levels or
dimensions are as follows
• Young Person
• Family Relationships
• Wider Community

3. 1. The Young Person
• The individual, for example, in
dispositional and temperamental
attributes. In simple terms “the way they
are such as happy or sad, etc. Are they
easy going or angry and what are they
good at.

4. 2.Family Relationships.
• Close relationships or substitute family
relationships, for example in secure
attachments.

5. 3. The Wider Community
• The wider community means other supports.
For those children of school age, the importance
of school can be highlighted for the following
reasons as well as educational values,
• School can act as a complimentary secure base.
• It can help children develop cognitively.
• It can provide charismatic people who may make
up for certain parental deficits.
Good educational attainment is associated
with good outcome.

6. Education Continued
School also offers other resilience factors
such as peer relationships, opportunities
to build self-esteem and give boundaries
and routines

7. Wider Community
• Other agencies can improve home
conditions and relationships within he
family.
• Also over appropriate relationships and
bring protection and emotional warmth into
the home.
• They teach family values and give routines
and boundaries.
• Make assessments and interventions

8. The next steps
• Professionals Need to consider each
young person under each domain and
identify the specific areas of strengths and
weakness to each young person. Then a
plan needs to be made on how best to
improve that domain and with the the plan
can be reviewed at the next meeting and
by professionals during the course of their
day to day contact family.

9. Assessing and Promoting
Resilience
The 6 domains are as follows:
• 1. Secure Base: This domain of resilience
acts as a focus for deliberate strategies of
basic care, routines. Etc (Family/Carer).
• 2. Education: Good education is
associated with good outcomes and is
therefore a protective factor.

10. Domains Continued
• 3. Friendships:
• Resilience is associated with having a
generally positive peer relationships.
• 4. Talents and Interests:
• Self-esteem is one of the fundamental
building blocks of resilience

11. Domains continued
• 5. Positive Values:
• Holding positive values and having the capacity
to act in a helpful, caring and responsible was
towards others is associated with resilience.
• 6. Social competence
• Social competence is possessing and using the
ability to integrate thinking, feelings and
behaviours to achieve social tasks.

12. • Brigid P Daniel