Working With Families Essay

Once upon of time, I believed to be an expert on working with families, however the classes taught me that it is extremely different and difficult to understand how the dynamics of a family are different amongst each family, and any family is the same. Also, any family present the same issues, there are different factors that make families challenging. For instance, culture, religion, wealth, location, ages, gender, and others that will be identified as you get to know the family. For instance, I am currently working with the Unaccompanied Minor Children, they are children who cross the United States border to reunify with their families in most of the cases, and some cases the go to long foster care or friends. Most of this children are running away from violence, poverty, and extreme poverty. The process for most of the cases take up to 20 days. This fact makes difficult to assist the children and their families to digest an understanding on how to educate, teach, and inform the different ways which the new environment

The book Child Development by Douglas Davies indicates “Some children developed serious disturbances, some were moderately or only mildly affected, and some even seemed to use the challenge of the stress to become stronger. Those children who had good outcomes in spite of exposure to risks to development were called “resilient”. (Davies, pp 61). Further, the resilience is presence in each child differently, sometimes make them stronger or weaker to the point the children are not able to cope with anything in their life. In the point view as a family the resilience will help the family to overcome any difficult situation that will prompt during the difficult process of adaptation. Lastly, resilience is seen as a normative development instead of a distinct attribute that promotes the smooth adaptation