Chapter 11 Promoting Pathways to Resilience Outcomes for Maltreated Children

Protective factors exist within the multiple layers of a child's context. Be able to identify positive and negative factors of the externalized context from the contextual family stress model

1. High quality, positive, and reciprocal relationships with peers - boosts self esteem, more likely to be resilient, lower engagement in risky behavior, provides emotional security, self-worth 2. Positive school climate and support in school - lower engagement in risky behaviors, greater competence and less psychological distress 3. High crime home environments and less social cohesion and control - less likely to be resilient, higher rates of risky behavior, long term issues

Resilience

A dynamic, multilevel process, potentially changing over time depending on a varitey of contextual factors and relational trransactions

Factors related to resilience following child maltreatment include child factors, family factors, parent factors and ...

Family factors and peer and community factors

Children's access to and ability to draw from resources, assets, and protective factors within themselves, their relationships, and their connections to other positive influences build what important quality

In understanding variability in adaptive outcomes following maltreatment

Child's internalize schema

Internal workings model, regarding evaluations of the self, others, and expectations for future events and interactions also likely to contribute to their adjustment and to the quality of their relationships with others. When children are exposed to a family environment in which their needs are met, they are more likely to develop positive self regard and positive expectations of others while negative evaluations of themselves and others and the future are more likely in the context of a maltreating environment

Do the majority of severity maltreated children show a limited ability to demonstrate resilience across a variety of domains

Low rate of resilience - majority of maltreated children have a difficult time recovering from the cumulative adversity they have faced. In addition to the overall the impact of these experiences on their overall mental health, significant physical health concerns, heightened risk of engaging in delinquent and criminal behavior, lower education and occupational attainment, reduced competence as a parent, and an elevated risk of intergenerational continuity of abuse in adult lives

Be able to identify key environmental protective factors within the family's environment.

Protective factors: affective involvement of parents and overall family engagement, physical stability, presence of at least one stable caretaker, fewer foster care placements

When a child's abuse or neglect begins when they are very young and is perpetrated by a parent or guardian, what happens to their attachment and resilience

Resilience among maltreated children is rare to find

Social competence is important because it enhances the likelihood that the maltreated child will be able to do what?

Social competence give her support and resources that may help to process and understand the experience. They enhance the likelihood that a maltreated child will be successful in forming close peer relationships, an important contributor to a resident outcome

If a child blames themselves for the abuse that happened at home they have more negative outcomes. This process refers to

self blaming, self shaming, or internalized self blame