HDFS 3319 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Shared Belief, Family Therapy, Centrality
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8:58 am: relational perspective, centrality of relationships, important in sustaining individual resilience, family systems orientation, expands lens to broad relational network, including primary parent, caregiver, spouse, mentor. Family resilience framework: focuses on risk and resilience in family as a unit, positive adaptation, regaining ability to thrive, personal transformation and growth, exosystemic and developmental perspectives. Shared belief systems: making meaning of adversity, relational view of resilience, normalize, contextualize distress, gain sense of coherence. Facilitative appraisal; active agency: positive outlook, hope, optimistic bias, confidence, encouragement, affirm strengths, potential, active initiative, perseverance (can-do spirit, master the possible, accept what cannot be changed, transcendence and spirituality. Flexibility: rebound, adaptive change to meet challenges, reorganize, restabilize, dependable and predictable, authoritative leadership, nurture, guide, protect, cooperative parenting/caregiving teams, connectedness, mutual support, teamwork, and commitment, respect individual needs and differences. Seek reconnection and repair grievances: mobilize social and economic resources, extended kin, social, community supports.