Resiliency Scales for Children and Adolescents Answer Sheets

Resiliency Scales for Children & Adolescents™ A Profile of Personal Strengths (RSCA) is a tool to profile personal strengths, as well as vulnerability in teens and children

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.