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Integrating Family Resilience and Family Stress Theory
Author(s) -
Patterson Joän M.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of marriage and family
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.578
H-Index - 159
eISSN - 1741-3737
pISSN - 0022-2445
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2002.00349.x
Subject(s) - family resilience , construct (python library) , psychology , psychological resilience , adaptation (eye) , perspective (graphical) , resilience (materials science) , meaning (existential) , family life , social psychology , sociology , computer science , psychotherapist , gender studies , neuroscience , artificial intelligence , programming language , physics , thermodynamics
The construct, family resilience, has been defined and applied very differently by those who are primarily clinical practitioners and those who are primarily researchers in the family field. In thisarticle, the family resilience perspective is integrated with conceptual definitions from family stress theory using the Family Adjustment and Adaptation Response (FAAR) Model in an effort to clarify distinctions between family resiliency as capacity and family resilience as a process. The family resilience process is discussed in terms of (a) the meaning of significant risk exposure (vs. the normal challenges of family life) and (b) the importance of making conceptual and operational distinctions between family system outcomes and family protective processes. Recommendations for future family resilience research are discussed.