Assessment task 1 Task description ; Bioecology and resilience in families Links to unit's intended learning outcomes 1, 2 & 3 National Competency Standards: Critical Thinking and Analysis• Provision and Coordination of Care• Collaborative and Therapeutic Practice• Directions When the child is the centre of positive communication, nurses and healthcare professionals engage in positive communication with the whole family when caring for children and young people. There is a growing trend to understanding families from a 'family strengths framework', to identify what families are doing well and what they can do to optimise positive outcomes. The family strengths framework is a positive approach to health care, looking at how families succeed and promote resilience (Smith & Ford 2013 p.98) Essay (1000 words) due 3pm 8 th April Explain the Bioecological Theory of Human development and how this theory can be applied to promote resilience in children and young people and health outcomes across the lifespan. In your essay: - Explain each of the four principal components of bioecology (process, person, context, time) and how they strengthen developmental outcomes in children and young people. Include evidence how each component influences health outcomes across the lifespan, - Discuss the Resilience Cycle model (Smith in Barnes & Rowe, 2013, p 198) providing examples of strengths during childhood that influence health and wellbeing outcomes and how the resilience cycle relates to bioecology. - Relate the bioecological theory to family functioning in the current Australian context.