Nursery World - Positive Relationships: Working with parents

A framework for building parent-child attachments and so child
resilience has been developed by a council in Scotland. Jean Campbell
explains how it works.

South Lanarkshire Psychological Service has had a longstanding interest in the concept of resilience, what it means and how to develop children's resilience capacity. The child-centred 'resilience' framework that we have developed is bringing benefits to both parents and professionals.

In developing our approach, we were particularly influenced by Edith Grotberg's study of how children under particular stress cope with the adversities that they face. Grotberg believed it was important to study how resilience changed or developed over time, and to identify factors with long-term impact. She was also interested not so much in individual personality factors but in what people - communities, adults and children - do that promotes coping over time, in the contexts and circumstances in which they normally live.

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