A Practical Research On Improving Children’s Resilience In Single-parent Families

In recent years, more and more younger people are becoming suicides, these children’s mental health problems have become the public focus which the government and society pay attention to, and we need to care more about children of single-parent families who is a very special disadvantaged group. This paper takes “Flying Kites” as an example to develop resilience, and carry out this activity in the Community A of Suzhou. The author attempts to research children’s resilience in single-parent families around two factors:internal and external protection factors. And the core of the research is to find a practical and effective way to promote children’s resilience in single-parent families. The author tries to investigate the current situation and analyze the factors through questionnaire methods, interview methods, and observational methods. On the basic of this, the author tries to combine the social work philosophy with developing resilience, uses strength perspective to intervene these children and uses social group work to construct and optimize internal factors of children’s resilience in single-parent families. In particular terms, the author attempts to teach them how to deal with problems, how to get interpersonal skills, how to set goals, and how to deal with emotional problems. Through these methods and skills, these children are able to face any setbacks, have a positive view on everything and be hopeful about the future. Besides this, it will also let these children experience and improve their self-efficacy and sense of optimism, then, they will become to internalize their knowledge, experience and comprehension, and finally, they will convert these to inner protection factors. This paper, based on the successful experience of“Growth of Sky” of HK, which is a program to develop resilience, and the author attempts to put forward reasonable suggestions about constructing internal and external protection factors. Through this way, it will continue to improve children’s resilience in single-parentfamilies.