Early Intervention and Resiliency

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Early Intervention and Resiliency

In Chapter 6 of your text, you learned how childhood maltreatment can lead to both psychological and social difficulties long-term. You also learned about the potential benefit of early intervention in future relationships and how that can increase resiliency. It is important for human service workers to understand their role in an early intervention program. Please answer the following:

Examine how a child’s maltreatment can impact future relationships. Identify a scenario where maltreatment could have a long-term impact on a child’s future relationships.

Discuss how adolescence is an important developmental time for establishing healthy relationships.

Explore how adolescent groups can be helpful in learning healthy behaviors that can be utilized in future relationships.

Identify and evaluate interventions that a human service professional could implement in adolescence that would potentially increase resiliency.