Strengthening Family Resilience

1. Foundations of a Family Resilience Approach

2. Family Diversity and Complexity in a Changing World: Varied Challenges and Pathways in Resilience

II. Key Family Processes in Resilience

3. Belief Systems: The Heart and Soul of Resilience

4. Organizational Processes: Relational and Structural Supports

5. Communication Processes: Facilitating Meaning Making, Mutual Support, and Problem Solving

III. Practice Applications

6. Assessing Family Resilience: Useful Maps for Practice and Research

7. Practice Principles and Guidelines to Strengthen Family Resilience

8. Applying a Family Resilience Framework in Community-Based Services

IV. Facilitating Family Resilience through Crisis, Transition, and Persistent Challenges

9. Challenges and Resilience over the Family Life Cycle: A Developmental Systems Perspective

10. Loss, Recovery, and Resilience

11. Traumatic Loss and Collective Trauma: Strengthening Family and Community Resilience

12. Serious Illness and Disabilities: Family Challenges and Resilience

13. Nurturing Resilience in Vulnerable, Multi-Stressed Families

14. Reconnection and Reconciliation: Healing Relational Wounds

Appendix I. Walsh Family Resilience Questionnaire

Appendix II. Developing Resilience-Based Genograms: Outline and Sample Questions

Appendix III. Exploring the Spiritual Dimension in Family Life: Sources of Distress and Resources for Well-Being, Healing, and Resilience

References

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