Resilience Skill-Building with College Students from Migrant Farmworker Backgrounds: A Single-Case Study

College students from migrant farmworker backgrounds face many personal and academic challenges. Resilience is a reliable predictor of persistence through challenges and long-term well-being. We used a quasi-single-case experimental design to examine an 8-week Predictive 6 Factor Resilience (PR6) counseling intervention aimed at increasing resilience capacity scores as measured by the PR6 scale. The group counseling intervention focused on the neuroscience-informed PR6 resilience model, which consists of six domains of resilience including vision, composure, tenacity, collaboration, reasoning, and health. Our research participants were first-year college students (N=7; age between 18 and 19; 4 males and 3 females, and all identified as Latino/a) enrolled in the College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP). Results indicated all seven participants had moderate to high resilience scores at baseline, with six of the seven participants showing an increase in median resilience scores from baseline to intervention. However, visual analysis and effect indices (PEM & Tau-U) showed inconclusive results. We discuss implications for counselors including incorporating resilience skill-building to enhance resilience capacities, the dynamic nature of resilience as a construct, and the importance of integrating culturally relevant/responsive counseling practices. Future research should include examining the PR6 resilience intervention using a single-case multiple baseline or multiple probe design to promote the ability to evaluate causal effect and replicability, in addition to transitioning the format to in-person versus virtual.