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Handbook of Family Resilience

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  • © 2013

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Editors:
  1. Dorothy S. Becvar

    1. , School of Social Work, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, USA

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  • Combines research, theory, and practice
  • Presents the full range of problems faced by families (i.e., addictions, domestic violence)
  • Includes recommendations for future research
  • Covers a range of ethnic groups
  • Contains a comprehensive section on grief
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (30 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Resilience in General

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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  4. Resilience and Families

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83
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  5. RESILIENCE AND FAMILIES

    1. Resilience in Stepfamilies

      • Marilyn Coleman, Lawrence Ganong, Luke T. Russell
      Pages 85-103

    2. Resilience in Military Marriages Experiencing Deployment

      • Jared R. Anderson, Yvonne Amanor-Boadu, Sandra M. Stith, Rachel E. Foster
      Pages 105-118

    3. Family Resilience and Parenting

      • Ivelisse Torres Fernandez, Jonathan P. Schwartz, Heejung Chun, Ginger Dickson
      Pages 119-136

    4. Family Resilience and At-Risk Youth

      • Michael Ungar
      Pages 137-152

    5. Family Resilience in the Context of High-Risk Situations

      • Cynthia A. Lietz
      Pages 153-172

  6. Resilience and Ethnicity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173
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  7. RESILIENCE AND ETHNICITY

    1. Resilience in Ethnic Family Systems: A Relational Theory for Research and Practice

      • Laurie D. McCubbin, Hamilton I. McCubbin
      Pages 175-195

    2. Native American Family Resilience

      • Rockey Robbins, Sharla Robbins, Brad Stennerson
      Pages 197-213

    3. Familias Fuertes: Family Resilience Among Latinos

      • J. Maria Bermudez, Jay A. Mancini
      Pages 215-227

    4. Resilience in Black Families

      • Leslie D. Hollingsworth
      Pages 229-243

    5. Resilience Relative to Korean Families

      • Sandra Rigazio-DiGilio, Ppudah Ki
      Pages 245-266

  8. Resilience, Loss, and Grief

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 267-267
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Keywords

About this book

Resilience is a topic that is currently receiving increased attention. In general, resilience refers to the capacity of those who, even under the most stressful circumstances, are able to cope, to rebound, and to go on and thrive. Resilient families are able to regain their balance following crises that arise as a function of either nature or nurture, and to continue to encourage and support their members as they deal with the necessary requirements for accommodation, adaptation and, ultimately, healthy survival. Handbook of Family Resilience provides a broad body of knowledge regarding the traits and patterns found to characterize resilient individuals and well-functioning families, including those with diverse structures, various ethnic backgrounds and a variety of non-traditional forms. This Handbook brings together a variety of perspectives aimed at understanding and helping to facilitate resilience in families relative to a full range of challenges.

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"…Dorothy Becvar brings together an A-plus group of multidisciplinary experts in the field of family research and practice to examine the construct of resilience across diverse family structures, cultural groups, and hardships.

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Overall, Handbook of Family Resilience is a well-written, comprehensive book that may leave its readers with more questions than answers. Calling for a paradigm shift in how families are conceptualized, studied, and treated, this pioneering book belongs on the shelves of anyone interested in working families experiencing stressful life events. It is a must read."

-PsycCRITIQUES, Debra Zand, Ph.D., St. Louis University, MO, USA

Editors and Affiliations

  • , School of Social Work, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, USA

    Dorothy S. Becvar

About the editor

Dorothy Becvar is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a Licensed Marital and Family Therapist with 30 years of experience in both academia and private practice. Dorothy is a former Editor of Contemporary Family Therapy: An International Journal. She has published extensively and in addition to many journal articles and book chapters is the author of the books Families that Flourish: Facilitating Resilience in Clinical Practice (Norton, 2007), In the Presence of Grief: Helping Family Members Resolve Death, Dying and Bereavement Issues (Guilford Press, 2001) and Soul Healing: A Spiritual Orientation in Counseling and Therapy (Basic Books, 1997) as well as the editor of the book The Family, Spirituality and Social Work (Haworth, 1997). With her husband, Raphael J. Becvar, she has co-authored four books: Family Therapy: A Systemic Integration (Allyn & Bacon, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2009), Pragmatics of Human Relationships (Geist & Russell, 1998), Hot Chocolate for a Cold Winter's Night: Essays for Relationship Development (Love Publishing, 1994), and Systems Theory and Family Therapy: A Primer (University Press of America, 1982, 1999). And she is co-editor, with William Nichols, Mary Anne Pace-Nichols and Augustus Napier, of the Handbook of Family Development and Intervention (Wiley, 2000).

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