Resiliency Scales for Children and Adolescents

S. Prince-Embury

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 three 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 post-traumatic 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:

• Quick-to-administer.

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

• 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.

• 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.