Resiliency Scales for Children and Adolescents™

NEW EXPANDED AGE RANGE 9 to 18 years.

Why do some children and adolescents adjust or recover and others do not? Now, you have a brief tool to profile personal strengths, as well as vulnerability that is theoretically based and psychometrically sound.

Resiliency Scales for Children and Adolescents Contains:

Forms: Three stand-alone scales of 19 - 24 questions each. Each scale contains subscales that are theoretically grounded.

• Sense of Mastery Scale
  Optimism, Self-Efficacy, Adaptivity
• Sense of Relatedness Scale
  Trust, Support, Comfort, Tolerance
• Emotional Reactivity Scale
  Sensitivity, Recovery, Impairment  

   

  Why assess resiliency?

• Build positive psychology into your assessment practice.
• Resiliency levels influence expected outcomes of many disorders.
• Resiliency skills can be taught as an intervention strategy.
• Patterns of strengths within the resiliency domain (mastery, relatedness, reactivity) can influence intervention goals.
• Children with depression or anxiety may have different prognoses and lengths of care depending on their level of resiliency.
• Victims of school bullying may respond differently depending on their resiliency profile.
• Course of care may vary with resiliency profile for children with adjustment reactions to divorce, loss, or other life events.
• Teens with posttraumatic stress disorder may respond differently depending on their resiliency profile.
• Use together with any symptom based measure to obtain a balanced view of the teen.    

  Resiliency Scales for Children and Adolescents is ideal for the clinical or school psychologist, social worker or counsellor because it is

  Flexible

• Quick-to-administer.
• Use separately, together, or in conjunction with any symptom-based measure to obtain a balanced view of the teen.

Child and Adolescent friendly

• Allows children to focus on strengths as well as symptoms and vulnerabilities.
• Results easily interpreted and discussed with adolescents, teachers and parents.
• May be used to start assessment to establish rapport and to initiate a positive helping relationship. 

Treatment focused

• Quickly screens for personal strengths.
• Normed with the Beck Youth Inventories-Second Edition, to link a Resiliency Profile with specific symptoms for more targeted treatment planning.
• Helps clinician generate and prioritize intervention strategies.
• Systematically benchmark and monitor responses to interventions in terms of strength enhancement as well as symptom reduction.    

Ideal when used with:

• Beck Youth Inventories – Second Edition Relate Resiliency Profile to Symptom Profile for treatment planning.
• Reynolds Bully Victimizations Scales Generate interventions based on strength enhancement to counter bullying and victimisation.
• Brown ADD Scales Generate interventions to address emotional reactivity and low sense of mastery that may accompany ADHD.

Related information:

Children and Young People's Mental Health Coalition website:
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