A person's ability to adapt to change
A person's ability to quickly adapt to change is referred to as resilience. When in foster care, teenagers and younger children frequently deal with substantial disturbances. Thus, it is essential to make sure that the children are adequately ready to transition out of the care facilities and that they acquire the skills required for independent living. Adolescents frequently enter foster care at different times during their lives (Hawkins-Rodgers, 2007). The majority typically enter care facilities as infants, while others join foster homes as teenagers. However, it is crucial to guarantee that the children or adolescents in these foster homes adjust to them successfully. The paper thus intends to discuss resiliency in the disruptions in foster care and disillusions of adoptions and kids.
The focus on environments in residential care models
Majority of the residential care model often concentrate on the environments that existed within the group homes in their reorganization of attachment and building of resiliency amongst the kids. However, there is the necessity for ensuring that the programs adopted the focus on how the kids can start adjusting to life in their unique new environments. Consistent care and nurturance are essential for the displaced kids that have experienced disruptions in organizing their attachment. The appropriate model thus entails the focus on supporting stable and safe environments that are crucial for re-organization of the attachment behavior and the other aspect of the care and treatment that ensured the development of resilient kids through subjecting them to the appropriate therapeutic education (Hawkins-Rodgers, 2007).
Adverse childhood experiences and resilience
The study conducted by Beutel, et al., (2017) suggest that the adverse childhood experience often contribute significantly to the unpleasant health outcome in adulthood, especially somatic and distress symptom. The study mainly focuses on the determination of the existing relation between resilient coping and distress in respondents. The study findings suggest that the childhood adversities are strongly associated with the reduction in resilience, social support, and adjustment. Moreover, the childhood adversity contributes significantly to increased somatoform and distress complaints. The resilient coping therefore relates with lower distress and as well contributes to the emergence of the experiences of buffered effects of childhood adversity on distress (Beutel, et al., 2017).
Protecting resilience in foster youth
The foster kids are amongst the most vulnerable members of the society. The foster kids often experience a significant amount of challenges as they shift from one foster home to another. However, ensuring the development of appropriate programs for managing the transitions is essential for helping the kids in overcoming some of the challenges that they often encounter. The study conducted by Hass & Graydon, (2009) mainly focuses on investigating the perceptions of the successful foster youths and account for their successes relating to the social support provided both in the community and in school. The findings of the study identified several factors in the crucial for protecting the lives of the youths in their resilience. The achievement of success strongly depends on a combination of several other factors both internal and environmental. Moreover, the study proposes the need for ensuring efficient development of programs that focus on improving the outcome of the foster kids even as they transition from one care home to another. There is the need for focusing on the fostering of supportive and caring relations for the kids besides enhancing the factors crucial for assisting the youths to elicit these ties from others independently (Hass & Graydon, 2009).
References
Beutel, M. E., Tibubos, A. N., Klein, E. M., Schmutzer, G., Reiner, I., Kocalevent, R. D., & Brähler, E. (2017). Childhood adversities and distress-The role of resilience in a representative sample. PloS one, 12(3), e0173826.
Hass, M., & Graydon, K. (2009). Sources of resiliency among successful foster youth. Children and Youth Services Review, 31(4), 457-463.
Hawkins-Rodgers, Y. (2007). Adolescents adjusting to a group home environment: A residential care model of re-organizing attachment behavior and building resiliency. Children and Youth Services Review, 29(9), 1131-1141.
