Resilience mentoring and adoption. A proposal from the Barudy and Dantagnan systemic child and adolescent traumatherapy model
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Not all children could grow up in nurturing contexts. When, as is the case in most adoptions, it has not been possible to have a developmental mentoring capable of providing the child with the care necessary for his or her well-being in order to emerge the basic resilience, it is possible, thanks to the support of resilience mentors, to offer opportunities for safety and affection that enable trauma repair and bonding. Barudy and Dantagnan's Systemic Child and Adolescent Traumatherapy Model offers a framework of actions trying to respond, from a biopsychosocial paradigm, to the needs that adopted children and adolescents present, especially when they have suffered adverse and prolonged early experiences such as maltreatment, neglect and/or sexual abuse. This article offers an approach to the concept of resilience mentoring and briefly describes the mention model.