Strengthening Family Resilience, Second Edition (Guilford Family Therapy Series)

Now in a fully revised, updated, and expanded second edition, this informative clinical resource and text presents Froma Walsh's family resilience framework for intervention and prevention with clients dealing with adversity. Drawing on extensive research and clinical experience, the author describes key processes in resilience for practitioners to target and facilitate. Useful guidelines and case illustrations address a wide range of challenges: sudden crisis, trauma, and loss; disruptive transitions, such as job loss, divorce, and migration; persistent multistress conditions of serious illness or poverty; and barriers to success for at-risk youth. New chapters present resilience-oriented approaches to recovery from major disasters and demonstrate community-based and international applications. Booknews Presents an innovated framework for therapeutic and preventive work with couples and families who are distressed, vulnerable, or at-risk, filled with suggestions for collaborative interventions that can help family relationships rebound and heal. Identifies key interactional processes for dealing with challenges, drawn from various models of a healthy family, and presents case illustrations showing how to use the strengths of each family member to benefit all family members. For professionals and students in mental health and human services. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or. In a fully revised, updated, and expanded second edition, this informative clinical resource and text presents Froma Walsh's family resilience framework for intervention and prevention with clients dealing with adversity. Drawing on extensive research and clinical experience, the author describes key processes in resilience for practitioners to target and facilitate. Useful guidelines and case illustrations address a wide range of challenges: sudden crisis, trauma, and loss; disruptive transitions, such as job loss, divorce, and migration; persistent multistress conditions of serious illness or poverty; and barriers to success for at-risk youth. New chapters present resilience-oriented approaches to recovery from major disasters and demonstrate community-based and international programmatic applications. This book contains four sections and twelve chapters: Section I, Overview, contains the following chapters: (1) Foundations of a Family Resilience Approach; and (2) The Growing Diversity and Complexity of Families in a Changing World; Section II, Key Family Processes in Resilience, contains the following chapters: (3) Belief Systems: The Heart and Soul of Resilience; (4) Organizational Patterns: Family Shock Absorbers; and (5) Communication Processes: Facilitating Mutual Support and Problem Solving; Section III, Practice Application, contains the following chapters: (6) Practice Principles and Guidelines to Strengthen Family Resilience; and (7) A Family Resilience Framework for Community-Based Programs and Services; Section IV, Facilitating Family Resilience through Crisis and Prolonged Challenges, contains the following chapters: (8) Loss, Recovery, and Resilience; (9) Chronic Illness and Family Caregiving: Challenges and Gifts; (10) Strengthening Resilience in Vulnerable Multistressed Families; (11) Recovery from Trauma, Traumatic Loss, and Major Disasters: Strengthening Family and Community Resilience; and (12) Reconnection and Reconciliation: Bridge over Troubled Waters "Drawing on extensive research and clinical experience, Walsh identifies key processes in resilience for practitioners to target and facilitate. Numerous case illustrations assist the reader in eliciting the unique strengths of diverse families to the benefit of all their members, from small children to frail elderly. Guidelines are delineated for intervening sensitively and effectively with those struggling with sudden crisis, trauma, and loss; disruptive transitions, such as job loss, divorce, and migration; chronic multistress conditions of serious illness or poverty; and barriers to success for at-risk youth."--Jacket Presents the author's family resilience framework for intervention and prevention with clients dealing with adversity. This work describes key processes in resilience for practitioners to target and facilitate. Useful guidelines and case illustrations address a range of challenges