The Benevolent Society, in partnership with the Parenting Research Centre, recently released a Resilience Practice Framework that will form the basis for their work with children and families from disadvantaged communities. It’s a great resource that many family and community workers will find useful.
It is built on five outcomes they want to help promote in the children and families they work with:
- Secure and stable relationships
- Increasing self-efficacy
- Increasing safety
- Improving empathy
- Improving coping skills
For each of these outcomes they have identified are a number of “evidence informed practices” (47 in all) and a range of practices elements that can help achieve the resilience outcomes. For example, the outcome “Secure and stable relationships” has 8 evidence informed practices and 20 practice elements:
Evidence informed practice | Practice elements |
Teachable moments |
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Following your child’s lead |
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Attending to your child |
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Listening, talking and playing more |
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Engaging an infant |
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Descriptive praise |
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Family time and family routines |
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Their overview of the framework includes:
- The main principles underpinning a resilience-led approach
- An overview of the 47 evidence-informed practices
- A guide to working in a culturally sensitive way
- Key factors associated with resilience
- An overview of six resilience domains
- How each outcome links to domains and practices
- Frameworks and theories which are congruent with a resilience-led approach
- Critiques of a resilience led approach and the framework.
The framework is supported by eight guides helping practitioners to implement the framework:
- Practitioner Skills
- Secure and Stable Relationships
- Increasing Self Efficacy
- Increasing safety
- Improving Empathy
- Increasing Coping / Self Regulation
- Cumulative harm
- Infants at risk of abuse and neglect
It’s well worth a look.
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