Projective assessment of resilience

摘要

Complex phenomenon, resilience is measured in various ways (Ionescu and Jourdan- Ionescu, 2011), mainly through self-administered questionnaires {Resilience scale Wagnild & Young, 1993; for example) to identify certain individual traits, indices of individual resilience. Presently, we consider resilience as a process taking place in an ecosystemic context, and the individual, family and environmental factors must be taken in to account when we assess the level of resilience. Social network scales and risk and protective factors scales can then be used. Few authors (Pamfil, De Tychey, Lighezzolo, Theis, Claudon, Diwo and Popa, 2007, for example) use projective techniques (Rorschach, Tales test, graphics tests) to explore resilience. We present here three projective methods we are working with: Lifeline, Resilience Exercise, Fay Woman Drawing. These instruments - and particularly the convergences of some common indices - allow a better understanding of the adversities faced by individual and the effective protective factors involved in the process. These instruments can give us a different picture of resilience.