A Case Study On The Improvement Of Resilience Of Single-parent Adolescent From The Perspective Of Attachment Theory

With improvement of public perception,divorcing,which used to be regarded as shamed and unacceptable,becomes more and more common in China nowadays.With the increasing divorce rate in China in recent years,the continuous growth of the number of single-parent teenagers has long become an objective fact.How to guide single-parent teenagers by the adverse effects of family qualitative change,how to ensure their physical and mental health,need for attention from all sectors of society.In this essay,the one-parent teens are divided into three classifications,which represented by A,B and C.The research basis is about life situation,quality of attachment relationship,and resilience of teens in 30 single-parent family.These data come from questionnaires and field research in community H,J and Q.According to analyses,most of teens are meeting problems in attachment relationship with their guardians and suffering poor resilience ability.Inferiority,introvert are more likely happen to single-parent teens,and effect their normal social interactions.With this influences,one-parent teens may have excessive thought or behavior under some special conditions,for example when they have conflicts with their guardian or classmate.Since this,within the range where social work practices can interpose,social work is feasible and necessary.Based on attachment theory,author intervened one-single parent family which belong to class B,and all the activities in this intervention process were recorded,assessed,and summarized.Attachment theory,which is frequently used recently in social work,believes individuals will be influenced deeply in almost every aspects by quality of attachment relationship in their early life,and poor quality may cause some personal troubles.These are what exactly be reflected in research data.Xiaojun,the client,also suffered the social discomfort,which caused by undesirable attachment relationship,in his daily life.With deep understanding of the client’s experiences,thoughts,and current relationship situation,two methods are used in this study and gain effects:1)improving the resilience ability of the client,leading him to get better self awareness,2)bettering attachment relationship with guardian,rebuilding a betterlife environment.These two methods are supposed to be well interacted,which means better resilience ability lead client to rebuild attachment relationship,and good attachment relationship helps client improve his confidence and resilience ability,and so on.Through the analysis of phased assessments,here are the conclusions.Firstly,cased work method is proved to be effective in improving the resilience ability of singe-parent teens.Secondly,ameliorating attachment relationship is necessary and important.In additional,improving the resilience ability and bettering attachment relationship are supposed to be well coupled and suggested to be carried out together in one-parent teens’ cases.Last but not least,attachment theory meets its limitation in bettering attachment relationships in single-parent family.