HDFS 3319 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Balance Board
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Enhancing family resilience through family narrative co-construction. Family demand: range of stressors encountered by families including discrete events, ongoing strains, and daily hassles. Family capabilities: tangible and psychosocial resources that the family possesses and has access to, as well as coping behaviors, three levels of family meanings. Family"s appraisal of current demands as compared to their capabilities and the extent to which they match up. Shared beliefs and how they see themselves as a unit. Family worldview: how family sees themselves in relationship to systems outside of the family, when demands persist in greatly exceeding capabilities, families experience crisis, three basic ways to achieve necessary adaptation, reducing demands. Increasing family capabilities: often more open to skill-based or training interventions than psychotherapy, changing family meanings or interpretations of important experiences. Shift their appraisal of events in a more realistic and optimistic direction: mastery orientation. Family resilience = power to achieve positive adaptation following a crisis.