Resiliency Scales for Children and Adolescents

The RSCA measures the personal attributes of the child that are critical for resiliency. Assessing resilience is important as it levels influence outcomes of many disorders.

Benefits

• Build positive psychology into assessment practice through strength identification and enhancement.
• Use separately, together, or in conjunction with other symptom-based measures to obtain a balanced view.
• Identify children who indicate low personal resources or high vulnerability before emergence of symptoms.
• Compare a child’s experience of personal resources with his or her experience of emotional reactivity.
• Easily interpret and discuss results with children, teachers, and parents.

Features

Scales are comprised of three stand-alone global scales of 20 to 24 questions each and ten subscales.

• Sense of Mastery Scale: assesses optimism, self-efficacy, and adaptability.
• Sense of Relatedness Scale: assess trust, support, comfort, tolerance.
• Emotional Reactivity Scale: assess sensitivity, recovery, impairment.
• Scales focus on strengths as well as symptoms and vulnerabilities.
• Third-grade reading level allows use with those who have special needs, including reading difficulty.
• Normed and compatible with the Beck Youth Inventories Second Edition to link a Resiliency Profile with specific symptoms for more targeted treatment planning.

The following resources are available for Resiliency Scales for Children & Adolescents: A Profile of Personal Strengths.