Assessment Solutions

As opposed to the traditional problem-focused approach to understanding specific at-risk behaviours or life challenges, the resiliency assessment model and the use of the resiliency questionnaires provide a statistically sound and research-based approach to understanding the protective factors/strengths that are related to long-term resiliency. When the resiliency questionnaires are administered and scored, individual profiles and aggregated summaries are generated that provide a conceptual map and guide towards developing strength-building strategies and preventative interventions for children, youth and adults as well as community settings.

The questionnaires provide a portrait of how the child, youth and adult perceive having (or not having) the positive protective factors/strengths and their potential relationship to the challenges and at-risk behaviours of children, youth, and adults. Working from a strength-based model of perceiving child, youth and adult development allows for exploring the positive aspects of individual differences in understanding what extrinsic and intrinsic strengths contribute to optimal human development. The Assessing Resiliency web site also supports programs in evaluating what it is about their services and intervention strategies that actually nurture the capacity for resiliency in the individuals, families and communities they serve.

Donnon, T., & Hammond, W. (2007) Understanding the relationship between resiliency and bullying in adolescents: An assessment of youth resiliency from five urban junior high schools. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 16, 449-471.

Donnon, T., & Hammond, W. (2007) A psychometric assessment of the self-reported youth resiliency: Assessing developmental strengths questionnaire. Psychological Reports, 100, 963-978.