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Understanding family resilience.

Joän M Patterson1

  • 1University of Minnesota, School of Public Health, Minneapolis 55454, USA.

Journal of Clinical Psychology
|February 12, 2002
PubMed
Summary

Family resilience involves unique functions, stress, and coping. Understanding subjective appraisal of stress and managing it is key to family competence and resilience.

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Area of Science:

  • Family Studies
  • Psychology
  • Sociology

Background:

  • Families function as social systems with unique roles for members and society.
  • Individual resilience concepts can be paralleled at the family system level.
  • Assessing family competence is linked to understanding family resilience.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To conceptualize family-level outcomes as a prerequisite for assessing family competence and resilience.
  • To discuss risk and protective processes influencing family resilience.
  • To differentiate perspectives on family resilience.

Main Methods:

  • Review of family stress and coping theory.
  • Emphasis on subjective appraisal of stressors and coping abilities.
  • Distinction between two models of resilience: risk-exposure versus universal strength promotion.

Main Results:

  • Family resilience is understood through their unique functions, stress, and coping mechanisms.
  • Subjective appraisal of stress and management capabilities are central to family resilience.
  • Two distinct perspectives on family resilience emerge: one based on risk exposure, the other on promoting strengths for all families.

Conclusions:

  • Family competence and resilience are best assessed by considering family-level outcomes and functions.
  • Understanding how families appraise and manage stress is crucial for interventions.
  • Promoting universal strengths may be as important as addressing specific risks for fostering family resilience.

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