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This chapter provides an overview of the resilience-enhancing stress model (RESM), an anti-oppressive human behavior and practice model intended to prepare social workers to serve clients and constituencies who are facing difficult life transitions, challenging environmental demands, or adverse critical events. It synthesizes four theories that constitute the RESM including risk and resilience theory, systems theory, ecological theory, and narrative theory. It also describes the four overlapping phases of practice consisting of engagement, assessment, intervention, and evaluation. The RESM model is suitable for working with diverse individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities. Chapter 2 continues with an overview of the anti-oppressive practice methodology of the RESM.
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- Assessment
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An examination of a cocreated tailored story of critical events.
- Engagement
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The formation of a safe relationship in the third space.
- Evaluation
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A consideration of whether client issues have been resolved or stress has been reduced.
- Intervention
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The deconstruction and reconstruction of client narratives.
- Life course perspective
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A perspective that views life events as idiosyncratic to an individual.
- Life-stage approach
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An approach that acknowledges that people pass through common, age-graded developmental markers.
- Nonnormative development
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Individual development within a specific historical and cultural context.
- Normative development
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The expected MAINSTREAM timing of life events.
- Problems in living
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Everyday tensions.
- Research-informed
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Describing a theoretical approach based on research studies.
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Greene, R., Greene, N., Corley, C. (2023). Introducing the Resilience-Enhancing Stress Model. In: Greene, R., Greene, N., Corley, C. (eds) Resilience Enhancement in Social Work Practice. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38518-6_1
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