A Study On Social Support Of Teenagers' Emotions And Behaviors In High Risk Families Applying The Strengths Perspective

Using strengths perspective, the study helped teenagers who had emotional and behavioral problems within high-risk families to find their own advantages and use useful resources to build social support networks, thus facilitating their personal growth and changes. The main subjects of the study are:First, the process of applying strengths perspective to counseling; Second, the outcome of using strength perspective in social support network; Third, essential factors of building a health social support network. The study used case study method. The case materials came from documents, records, interview scripts, direct observation and participant observation, and were collected and arranged in three principles, which includes diverse reference material, completed case material database and consecutive material evidence chain.Besides, the study highlighted three aspects as follows:First, teenagers in high-risk families:Family has an important and complicated influence on teenagers. On one hand, the sufficiency of family resources affects the diversity of teenagers'future life path, the entirety of family function and parent-child relationship. Also, the conflicts within parent-child relationship could have an influence on the adaptation of teenagers. On the other hand, the teenagers in high-risk families are in puberty, they are facing self-recognition crisis, it is often that they have deviant behaviors and confusions of self concept. It is also worth noticing that teenagers within the high-risk families have their own advantages, the special raising environment can bring out their traits like strong-minded, hard-working, realistic, striving for success, etc.Second, provide counseling with strengths perspective:To begin with, the counselors need to handle their relationship with the teenagers with cautions, for the reason that the way they deal with that relationship affects the trust from that group and the development of follow-on work. Teenagers would like the counselor to play different roles from the parent role. Furthermore, in the counseling process, it is important that the teenagers lead the development of the process. To end, with the assists from the social work counselor, the teenagers must be able to make specified goals independently and self-executed plans, which should be predictable and flexible.Third, the influence of the role as a researcher:The separation of roles of the researcher and counselor has two sides. The positive side is that it can protect teenagers' decision from being influenced by researcher's personal experience, mode of thinking, life reflections and subjective judgment. The negative side is that the situation could result in the lack of long-term face-to-face interaction and possible inspirations created during the interaction. This special condition is a factor had a great influence on the study.