Early Parenthood: The GIRFEC Approach
Although these issues are not restricted to young mothers some of the issues can be related to Susie and her family. Research shows that early parenthood is connected with challenging life routes, throughout the transition to parenthood. It is seen to be that young mothers are more likely to be single parents, live in poverty, and to have been victims of abuse than woman who become mothers as adults (Borkowski, Whitman, & Farris, 2007). This could be linked to Susie as it states that she is “afraid of her partner’s temper”, which could be linked with forms of abuse. There have also been worries over money, which may result in them living in poverty as a result of the number of children they have and only one person in the household is working.
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GIRFEC is an approach, which is used as a consistent way for people to work with all children and young people. It assists practitioners to concentrate on what makes a positive difference for the people they work with and how they can work to deliver these improvements. The resilience matrix, which is part of the GIRFEC, (2008) approach is a good way of testing a person’s resilience, as it looks at who is resilient and who is vulnerable. A child’s vulnerabilities and protective factors interact with their environment, and therefore the same environment can have a rather different effect, depending on the characteristics the child brings to the interaction (Bee & Boyd, 2007). The resilience matrix has been implemented by children’s services but can also be used to support thinking about resilience throughout the lifespan. The resilience matrix is a way of mapping out some of the different factors in people’s lives. It is split into four quadrants, which are resilience, protective factors, vulnerability and adversity. Practitioner’s work with the child to see how many factors there is in each quadrant, and try to shift as much as possible between the resilience and protective factors quadrants to try and reduce the impact of the negative things or build positive
GIRFEC is an approach, which is used as a consistent way for people to work with all children and young people. It assists practitioners to concentrate on what makes a positive difference for the people they work with and how they can work to deliver these improvements. The resilience matrix, which is part of the GIRFEC, (2008) approach is a good way of testing a person’s resilience, as it looks at who is resilient and who is vulnerable. A child’s vulnerabilities and protective factors interact with their environment, and therefore the same environment can have a rather different effect, depending on the characteristics the child brings to the interaction (Bee & Boyd, 2007). The resilience matrix has been implemented by children’s services but can also be used to support thinking about resilience throughout the lifespan. The resilience matrix is a way of mapping out some of the different factors in people’s lives. It is split into four quadrants, which are resilience, protective factors, vulnerability and adversity. Practitioner’s work with the child to see how many factors there is in each quadrant, and try to shift as much as possible between the resilience and protective factors quadrants to try and reduce the impact of the negative things or build positive