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Analyze the impact the client’s belief system, worldview, and values have on their
perception of the adversity in their life as well as their ability to cope with the adversity.
Belief systems include values, assumptions, attitudes, convictions, and biases which
coalesce to form a set of basic principles which tend to trigger emotional responses, guide
actions, and inform decisions. As stated by Froma Walsh (2015) belief systems are the heart of
every family functioning and are a strong force in developing resilience. Having belief systems
may offer a sense of purpose, connection and comfort. This is particularly true during
challenging times. Beliefs may impact the healing process and improve an individuals’ qualify of
life. Walsh points out that individuals cope with prolonged adversities and crisis by making
meaning out of their experiences: relating it to their spiritual and cultural beliefs, to their social
world, their dreams and hopes for the future and to their multigenerational past. It is important to
note that our beliefs tend to be socially constructed, evolving in a continuous process via
transactions with the larger world and significant others. People experience various
commonalities resulting from experiencing similar events as well as when they interpret and
construe the repercussions of events in a similar manner.
Constraining beliefs restrict options and perpetuate problems whereas facilitative beliefs
increase individual’s options for growth, healing and problem resolution. According to Wright &
Bell (2009), affirming beliefs particularly those holding that we have a great potential to succeed
and that we are valued, can assist individuals rally during adversities. On the other hand, beliefs
that our needs are unimportant and selfish may lead to relentless accommodation or selfless
caregiving, leaving individuals depleted, resentful, or guilty. The authors argue that some beliefs
are more useful than others, depending on individual’s situations. Some are more socially
acceptable or desirable within a particular culture.
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A transcendent value system on the other hand, whether conventional or not enables
individuals to define their lives and their relationships with other people as meaningful. Research
documents that to come into peace with the investable losses and risks in bring close and loving,
families and individuals require a values system which as Doherty (2013) posits ‘’transcends the
limits of their knowledge and experience. A value system enables members of groups and
families to perceive their particular realities, which may be frightening, uncertain and painful,
from a point of view/perspective that make some sense of happenings and allows for hope.
Froma (2015) argues that without this wider view (value system), or a moral compass,
individuals are much vulnerable to despair, alienation as well as hopelessness.
Identify and discuss at least three different resources families can utilize that promote
resilience
Resilience is a prominent word and most individuals have a sense that being resilient is a
good thing. But what does it really mean to be resilient? And how does resilience benefit
individuals and families, particularly when faced with adversities in life? As documented by
numerous studies, resilience refers to the ability to rebound from life challenges stronger and
more resourceful. Froma Walsh established a family resilience framework that families and
individuals can use while dealing with adversity. Based on Walsh (2015), the family resilience
framework is applicable to various family structures and both informal and formal kin networks.
Walsh offers nine fundamental keys to resilience classified in three distinct areas: Family
communication, family organization and resources and family belief systems. For the purpose of
this paper, the following resources will be discussed: transcendence and spirituality, Flexibility
and using collaborative problem solving.
Transcendence and spirituality
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According to Froma Walsh, transcendent experiences and beliefs provide connection,
purpose, and meaning beyond ourselves, our immediate plight, and our families. They provide
continuity into the future with generations before us and those to come. They tend to offer solace
in distress and clarity about our lives; they render adversities less frightening and foster
acceptance of circumstance that are beyond our control. Particularly transcendent beliefs are
anchored in cultural heritage and spiritual faith (Froma, 2015).
Resilient families find connection, purpose and meaning to something beyond their
immediate problems, their members and themselves. This may be described as the family’s
spiritual and moral values that are their sources of strengths. Numerous families find guidance,
comfort and strength in adversities via their connections with religious and cultural traditions.
Families can also find spiritual nourishment via such things as an intense connection with art,
music or nature. By seeing themselves as being part of something much bigger than themselves,
families can take a wider view of the challenge they are facing, which may lead to heightened
sense of meaning and purpose in their lives (Oh & Chang, 2014).
Flexibility
Resilient families should have a flexible structure which may be modified to fit the
challenges and needs rather than holding a firm conception of family rules and roles. This will
allow the family to cope with the changes that may occur through adversity or crisis. While
individuals often relate bouncing back after a crisis, resilience may be perceived as bouncing
forward. Doherty (2013) holds that families hoping to be resilient should learn to reorganize and
rebound in the face of adversity rather than getting back to normal before the adversity. Froma
Walsh argues that firm leadership with an aim at security and a sense of predictability is required
within the family to aid guide vulnerable members of the family via the changes in the family.
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Collaborative problem solving
Families that are resilient identify the problems and available options to deal with and
late make decisions as a team. Members of the family engage in brainstorming activities as a
way of discovering new possibilities to overcome a crisis, with ideas and opinions of all family
members valued and respected. Resilient families tend to focus on achievable objectives and
concrete steps which may be followed to achieve those objectives. Families build on past success
as they pursue the objectives and learn from circumstance that do not work. Via this process,
families are able to learn skills that may assists them become proactive in getting ready for future
crisis.
Integrate the information presented in both questions above and identify strategies or steps
you need to take to ensure your recommendations and referrals to resources and
interventions are appropriate.
Developing an intervention is perhaps the most challenging part of being a social worker.
Once presented with a problem and listening to contradicting views, a social worker is left with
the duty of developing an intervention to solve the crisis presented before them. A practitioner is
needed to follow various steps to ensure that their recommendations and referrals to resources
and interventions are appropriate. As a human service professional the first step to developing an
interventions encompasses defining and understanding the problem and its causes. Often this is
done through assessments for which there are a few practical guides.
Once the professional has
defined the problem to be addressed, the goal to be addressed, specific behaviors of whom that
require to be changed, and the improvements in individual or family outcomes that should result,
the human service professional should then assesses the level of the goal or problem via various
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assessment method lie direct observations, conducting behavioral surveys, reviewing existing or
archival family records and interviewing key individuals in the family.
Once the above step is completed, a practitioner should describe the prioritized groups to
benefit as well as those implementing the intervention. He/she should then analyze the goal or
problem to be addressed by the intervention including: those for whom the current situation is a
problem, the conditions that require to change for the problem to be resolved (e.g. financial
resources, skills, trusting relationships) and the appropriate level at which the goal or problem
should be addressed. Objectives and goals for what success would like are put in place and
various evidence-based interventions or practices that could help addressed the problem are
identified and assessed. The suitable interventions is then chosen based on the assessment results
and an action plan for the intervention is developed.
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References
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Strengthening family resilience
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Doherty, T. J. (2013). Individual impacts and resilience. In
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Bell, J. M., & Wright, L. M. (2015). The Illness Beliefs Model: Advancing practice knowledge
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Oh, S., & Chang, S. J. (2014). Concept analysis: family resilience.
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