Resilience, the ability of individual intelligent adaptation/conformity presupposes a dynamic relation between the external and internal factors of the personality. If one tackles a challenge successfully, it is the result of the external and internal adaptation. The evolution of a personality who is capable of long-term projection/planning and relationships is possible only in a family which ensures the basic psychological conditions of the child. The evolution of efficient adaptation ability begins in early childhood; through socialization, the family environment ensures all those conditions that result in the formation/evolution of this ability. The ambiance of the family education, the mother-child relationship, the early attachment pattern, the family as a system: all these contribute to the evolution of a healthy personality and of an adaptive conformity.
Keywords: resilience, adaptation, family socialization, personality development

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Th e article studies the local network of social services in Gheorgheni, Romania, from the perspective of community resilience, mainly through the services provided for families with disabled children. The empirical base of research were the results of two surveys done among the local social services, the statistical analysis of the database of social environment studies realized by the local government, as well as interviews with families with disabled children and social service providers. The results show that the local network of social services in Gheorgheni in addition to the large number of social services, show other positive signs of resilience. These are mainly the diversity, the viability and the social embeddedness of the services. The frameworks of cooperation are built for years, the organizations have their own goals and a positive outlook, but in the same time they lack real cooperation, the exchange of experiences, common vision and strategies on the level of the network.
Keywords: community resilience, social services, local network of social services

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In Romania, the abuse and consumption of drugs has increased in significance as social illness, a problem which is fought with a lackluster arsenal. Th e diplomacy of the country is mainly employed with restrictive punishments; including the lack of medical treatment available for prisoners. Th e lack of services available in drug-rehabilitation and psychological de-toxication is making most of the users to turn away from distrusted sources. Furthermore, the efforts aimed at the containment of peril are under attack. Th e situation of efforts directed towards drug prevention is in the same conjecture. Hitherto the Independence Zone, which is an initiative based in Cluj-Napoca, has performed it’s’ activities in the area which has been uppermentioned, for ten years. Focusing on the most dangerous group, the activity of IZ, since 2004, has taken place during the main festival that youths attend in Transylvania, subjecting its’ sharing of a multitude of prevention-efforts as well as the results of field work in order to provide useful guidance and council for pedagogues and main audience. In this article we present the main achievements since its ten year inception of the IZ, the prolific professional achievements, as well as highlighting a few of the insightful data from the research provided by the fieldwork performed at several festivals.
Keywords: drug prevention activities, drug policy, youth festivals, fieldwork

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In 2003-2004 during a research about of the families taking care of disabled children or adults, we have created the criteria of coping successfully. Interpreting through this filter the resulting data and the responses a coping profile has outlined. Ten years later, we repeated the survey and found, that during the interpretation of the data, the coping criteria from the first research is not sustainable. To better understand this phenomenon, we have performed in-depth interviews and we have added a CHIP (Coping Health Inventory For Parents) questionnaire that provides insight to coping behaviors used by parents. Th e results we have obtained further highlighted our suspicion that the factor of successful coping from the first period of facing disabilities has significantly changed through the years.
Th is phenomenon can be interpreted not only in terms of the life of individual families, but also shows the overlaps and differences between the meaning of the term “coping” and “resilience”, and the professional challenge brought by the supported resilience in the ‚overseeing’ of these families.
Keywords: coping, supported resilience, families with disabled children, resilience supporting model

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