Intervening in “Society,” … moving beyond the resilience model of care

This article in https://policyoptions.irpp.org/ by Michael Orsini Professor in the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies and the School of Political Studies helped me as a clinician taking the strength’s approach to step beyond the theory of client’s individual resilience into a broader, systems view on how to approach interventions.   It’s the eternal challenge, of how to integrate the: micro, mezzo, macro in care as we sit with the person.

… What if resilience is just another way of saying “get over it”? What if a positive attitude is not enough to pull you out of poverty? What if dealing with hatred and racism is not made better by just not letting it get to you? What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, right? It might not kill you, but it can harm you in ways that might make you feel like you would be better off dead. …

… The resilience industry is rooted in an individual model of change, one that leaves untouched the structures and systems that are responsible for the trauma in the first place. Children growing up in under-served communities would not have to “overcome” their environments if their schools and neighbourhoods had the resources they deserved. Indigenous people would not need to become resilient in the face of colonial dispossession had they not been forced into residential schools or had their land occupied. …

Please see the article: https://policyoptions.irpp.org...-us-to-be-resilient/