Abstract
Resilience-building interventions show promise in higher education, yet few studies focus on Latinx college students from migrant farmworker backgrounds (LMFWs), a group facing significant challenges such as acculturative stress, mixed familial immigration status, and educational discontinuity. This quasi-experimental single-case design study examined resilience domains among LMFW students participating in a group-based intervention informed by the predictive 6-factor resilience model. Resilience was measured across six domains: collaboration, vision, tenacity, reasoning, health, and composure, using standardized assessments adapted from Rossouw and Rossouw (2018). Pre- and post-intervention scores were visually analyzed to assess change at the individual level. Results indicated a evidence of a basic effect for five of six participants across multiple domains. Collaboration was the most responsive domain, with four participants demonstrating improvement; three participants showed gains in reasoning. These findings suggest that targeted, contextually grounded interventions can foster resilience among LMFW students. The study highlights the dynamic nature of resilience and underscores the need for culturally responsive interventions and research designs that permit stronger causal inference, such as multiple-baseline approaches. Implications for counseling practice and future research directions are discussed.
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Dickinson, R., Miller, R., Brown, C. L., Russo, G., & Knowles, E. (2026). Examining Six Domains of Resilience with Latinx College Students from Migrant Farmworker Backgrounds: A Quasi-Experimental Single Case Design Study. Trauma Counseling and Resilience, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.33470/2997-7088.1092