Social Work Intervention Into Cultivation Of Needy Teenagers' Resilience

Adolescence is an important period for individual's views of the world, life and values. Because of family economic conditions, the needy teenagers are facing many difficulties in this important stage. According the theory of resilience, individuals can maintain recognition and positive attitude in a crisis situation, but needy teenagers rarely aware of this potential and use these abilities. Needy teenagers' resilience level can affect their attitudes towards difficulties and their abilities to solve problems, which would affect whether their socialization process can be carried out smoothly and whether they can be well adapted to the society in the future. Therefore, social workers need to work in a professional theory and methods, in order to comprehensive analyze the needy teenagers' plight, resilience performance and influencing factors. Then, social workers should take effective intervention strategy to help young people of needy families develop resilience and to utilize in real lives.This study analyzes the clients' resilience by Kumpfer's resilience framework model of environment-individual interaction. Through the case study of three needy families in X community in Nanjing City, the main difficulties of needy teenagers are mainly faced with: the shortage of daily life resources and health risks; the lack of informal education; the limitation of social communication channels. It can be seen from the performance of the three clients that they all have a low level of resilience and obstacles in different degrees.The development of needy teenagers' resilience is affected by five main factors: personalities and self-expectation, the identity of the peer group, the family's attention and understanding, the affections of school atmosphere, the supports of communities and social organizations.Social workers should cultivate the needy teenagers' resilience in Strengths Perspective and environmental system. By enhancing teenagers' self-confidence, social workers can promote positive interactions and establish relationship between each other. What's more, it can inspire clients to realize their potential changes and make them to be optimistic to cope with difficulties.Besides, social workers should take the clients main environment as the intervention system from the multi-system level and carry out comprehensive work for their families, schools and communities so as to receive more resources and promote positive interactions between internal and external protective factors. In addition, they should also pay attention to flexible use of the case work method in the actual intervention process.