HBSE Week 2: The Biopsychosocial Perspective

Strengths-based Practice
Every individual, group, and community has strengths.
Trauma, abuse, illness, and struggle may be harmful, but they may also be sources of challenge and opportunity.
Assume that you do not know the limits of the capacity to grow and change.
We best serve clients by collaborating with them
Every environment has resources.
(Poulin, 2010)
HBSE Week 2: The Biopsychosocial Perspective
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Bronfenbrenner:
Ecological Theory of Development
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Dimensions of Age
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http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local/essayworks/69848-relax-baby-boomers-the-millennials-are-all-right-and-so-are-you
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/magazine/22Adulthood-t.html?_r=4&ref=homepage&src=me&pagewanted=all&
NYTimes Magazine, 2010
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There is diversity among groups regarding developmental risks and protections.
The Unequal Opportunity Race, AAPF
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See also Hutchison, p. 33
Jessica Lee
Rutgers University
Resilience
Resilience is developed through a transactional process dependent on supportive factors in the environment.
Refers to an ability to function competently under threat or to recover from extreme stress or trauma quickly.
Refers to good developmental outcomes and adaptive abilities in spite of growing up in high-risk situations.
Davies, p. 62
Rethinking Foster Care: Molly McGrath Tierney 2014

Lifeline Exercise
Example
Article Discussion

Davies, D. (2004)
Risk and protective factors: The Child, family, and community contexts
. New York: Guilford Press. pp. 61-108
Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Theory of Development
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