Strengthening Family Resilience: A Community Capacity Approach

In  Chapter 17 of your text, you learned the role that a family’s community  plays in the development of resilience across the lifespan. You also  learned about social organization theory and how it can be used in  tandem with strengths-based approaches to help families become  resilient. Finally, you learned about four distinct types of communities  and the role of collectivism in family resilience. Please use your readings and research peer-reviewed journal articles in the Purdue Global Library to support your post.

Please respond to the following:

• Identify and discuss various ways a family’s community can impact resilience in both a positive and negative manner.
• Discuss the importance of using a strengths-based orientation when working with families.
• Briefly  examine social organization theory and discuss how it can be used with a  strengths-based orientation to increase family resilience.
• **350 WORDS, PLEASE FOLLOW DIRECTIONS AND ANSWER EACH BULLET POINT**

Jordan is a 35-year-old woman who presents with intermittent diarrhea with cramping that is relieved by defecation. The diarrhea is not bloody or accompanied by nausea and vomiting. Review of past medical history includes some childhood “stomach issues”, HTN, and a recent cholecystectomy. She works in the environmental department of a large hotel. . She denies alcohol and cigarette.

Diagnosis: Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)

I.      Discuss the epidemiology of IBS?

II.     What is your treatment goals for this patient?

III.    Discuss First line and second line drug therapy for IBS. Please include pharmacotherapeutic information.

The Discussions in this course are conducted in groups. Please see the Announcements area for grouping information from your instructor. Click on the Discussion Forum link below, then click on the link to your assigned group’s thread. Be sure to check for an updated Announcement at the beginning of each week as your instructor may elect to periodically update grouping assignments.

This week you studied and thought about the suggestion that each person’s set of social identities is a representation of human diversity. The readings introduced you to theoretical and practical aspects of social identities. And, you began to describe and analyze your own social identities and how the world around you responds to them. Although it was meaningful to begin this examination in the relative privacy of the Reflection and Application Assignments, your understanding of these concepts will deepen when you enter into a conversation about these topics with your colleagues. In preparation for this Discussion, consider the following questions:

• What was your concept of “diversity” before you enrolled in this course, and in what ways, if any, has that concept been affirmed/modified/changed by what you learned this week?
• In what specific ways has thinking about your own diversity, as expressed in your social identities, influenced/increased your understanding that social identities are the source of individual diversity?
• Some people maintain that a focus on human differences creates conflict; that it is better to focus only on similarities between people. What are your thoughts?
• What is, in your opinion, the dominant reason why you as an early childhood professional should study the nature of social identities and their link with diversity?
• Based on what you have learned this week, what is one new idea, insight, or question regarding diversity and/or social identities that you want to share with your colleagues?

By Day 3

Post a brief response to three of the five questions.