DB 6 Module 12: Effective Programs for Adolescents: Youth participation, Resilience, and Empowerment

Please review this week’s materials and briefly answer the following questions (in up to 2 paragraphs total):

1. Resilience has been defined as “the process of, capacity for, or the outcome of successful adaptation despite challenging and threatening circumstances” (Masten, Best, & Garmezy, 1990, p. 426). As a social worker, how do you define resilience? How might your definition be different than that of a parent or a young person?

2. Do you think resilience is developed or innate? Why?

3. Systems (e.g., schools, communities, agencies) can (and often do) both promote and undermine resilience at the same time. In what ways might an institution you worked with or are familiar with loosely be promoting/undermining resilience? How can positive youth development theories be incorporated to promote resilience?

Please post your response and respond thoughtfully to at least two of your peers.