The Importance Of Resilience In Children

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Around the world many people are faced with adversities and constant obstacles in the life that they will have to overcome. People often have to face adversities such as death, poverty, illness, disabilities, and environmental issues on a daily. Many people can overcome the adversities they are faced with, while others may struggle and need help overcoming their situation. Never the less if a person fails or succeeds at overcoming their situation this is still a part of their resilience. In the Jake article Dr. Ungar showed how counseling can be used to people overcome their adversities and reach resilience. Dr. Ungar took into consideration from the beginning that everyone’s situation is different and every cases should be handled differently. He really pushed Jake to resilience by telling Jake to take control of his life first before he can better help his father. In this exercise I will show how various professional literatures support Dr. Ungar’s theory and ideas on resilience and how to establish resilience within children. Also this exercise will demonstrate one strength-based instrument that will be used as an example to assess Jake.
Resilience is important because it is the human capacity to face, overcome and be strengthened by or even transformed by …show more content…

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