Integrating Family Resilience and Family Stress Theory
2002/05/01 by Joän M. Patterson · 1,173 citations
Psychology · #Adaptation (eye) #Computer science #Construct (python library) #Family and Disability Support Research #Family life #Family resilience #Meaning (existential) #Perspective (graphical) #Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction #Psychological resilience #Psychology #Psychotherapist #Resilience (materials science) #Resilience and Mental Health #Social psychology #Sociology
paper · doi:10.1111/j.1741-3737.2002.00349.x
published in Journal of Marriage and the Family 64(2), 349-360 (Wiley)
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Abstract
The construct, family resilience, has been defined and applied very differently by those who are primarily clinical practitioners and those who are primarily researchers in the family field. In thisarticle, the family resilience perspective is integrated with conceptual definitions from family stress theory using the Family Adjustment and Adaptation Response (FAAR) Model in an effort to clarify distinctions between family resiliency as capacity and family resilience as a process. The family resilience process is discussed in terms of (a) the meaning of significant risk exposure (vs. the normal challenges of family life) and (b) the importance of making conceptual and operational distinctions between family system outcomes and family protective processes. Recommendations for future family resilience research are discussed.
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