Strengthening family resilience

AUTOR: Froma Walsh
TÍTULO: Strengthening family resilience
COTA:P/1438-BC

EDITOR: The Guilford Press
ANO: 2006
RESUMO: Resilience--the ability to withstand and rebound from crisis or persistent challenges--has become a valuable concept in understanding why some families are shattered by trauma and adversity, while others survive or even grow stronger. This practical guidebook and text from Froma Walsh broke new ground on its original publication by presenting a family resilience framework for intervention and prevention. Nearly a decade later, the fully revised and expanded second edition now incorporates important conceptual, empirical, and clinical developments, making it an indispensable reference for today's practitioners and students. 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. Particular attention is given to helping family members rebuild troubled relationships and make optimal use of spiritual, cultural, and community resources. All chapters in the second edition have been updated to reflect the latest research and practice advances, and to address new challenges facing families in a changing world. Two new chapters present resilience-oriented approaches to recovery from major disasters and describe community-based and international applications. Demonstrating powerful ways to bring out the best in family relationships--even in the worst of times--this volume provides essential tools for family therapists, social workers, clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, counselors, nurses, and professionals in related fields. Authoritative yet readable and accessible, it is an outstanding text for advanced undergraduate- and graduate-level courses. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)