Family Resilience Approach

In the chapter book titled “Foundations of a Family Resilience Approach,” the author of the article writes a chapter explaining family resilience. The author begins by stating that the concept of resilience is applied to developmental psychology and mental health theory to understand individual malfunction and disorders. Throughout the chapters the author discusses family resilience providing various examples.

In the text, the author begins with a brief introduction about resilience. According to Walsh resilience is the ability to withstand and rebound from challenges. These challenges encourage a positive individual growth. In the resilience, process individuals are able to overcome difficult challenges and experiences and come up with ways on how to live life in a positive matter. Furthermore, in his book the author adds important myths about the concept of resilience. One myth about this concept is the idea that “like a rubber band, resilience involves “bouncing back” from adversity.” In contrast to this idea Walsh, states that adversity and experience create change and growth. Individuals are not pulled back rather individuals push through to overcome difficult life challenges and experiences. The second myth is the idea that resilience equals

According to the author, family resilience has the ability to understand how families come together to overcome stresses and develop growth to overcome the difficult challenges and life crisis. To elaborate more on this idea Walsh created a foundation of resilience family approach model to further understand the concept of family resilience. The family approach consists of organizational and communication processes that demonstrate how families communicate and organize to overcome the difficult life situations. This key process approach was created for practitioners to see target key families process that reduces stress and life