A Study On Resilience In Aids Orphans

In this thesis, the writer analyzes the children orphaned by AIDS and their living environment; the protective and risk factors which influence the resilience development of the children orphaned by AIDS has been discovered. After the study, it was found that the children didn't give up on life but arouse resilience to learn how to live when their parents died by AIDS.The protective factors including the Government, Primary family, Sunshine Home, Sunshine Family and Non-government organization have played vital role when children orphaned by AIDS encountered crises. The adverse impact to children orphaned by AIDS has been reduced as their involvement, and the living environment has taken a turn for the better. But there are some risk factors which cause serious setbacks to resilience development, such as closure living environment, resource maldistribution, resource overlap and resource wasting.Under the protection external, the internal protective factors of children orphaned by AIDS come into being resilience. Different internal protective factors are the root cause of different resilience. Actually, the internal protective factors and the external protective factors develop imbalance. Relative to the external protective factors, the internal protective factors of children orphaned by AIDS has not beening fully developed; further study is required.Through the study, the writer found that the resilience formation of children orphaned by AIDS has compensatory specialty: when major crises has happened, the factors both internal and external which are good to generate resilience play an important role in solving crises. But the shortage of external supporting and internal developing block the resilience developing of children orphaned by AIDS.From a superiority perspective, the resilience proficiency of children orphaned by AIDS can be aroused by macro and micro-social work intervention. With a better external environment, the resilience developing of children orphaned by AIDS can be facilitated and they can grow up healthily finally.