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The Family Context
Published in Gerry R. Cox, Neil Thompson, Death and Dying, 2020
Paul Rosenblatt (2020, p. 108) captures the point well when he explains that: Families are interacting entities in which much of what there is to understand and observe is what goes on between and among members who inevitably differ from one another in what they think, feel, do, remember, know, need and understand. This means understanding, assessment, evaluation and professional help focused on family resilience has to be sensitive to differences among family members and the complexities of what goes on between and among them. Consequently, our focus in this chapter is on how the family context can be a significant factor (or set of factors) in relation to how death and dying are experienced and managed.
An overview of public health evaluation and the social determinants of health
Published in Allyson Kelley, Public Health Evaluation and the Social Determinants of Health, 2020
Social support and community inclusivity. Social or relational support benefits mental health. Social support improves mental health, can strengthen family resilience, and enhances community connections (Shim, Ye, Baltrus, et al., 2012). Lack of social support can lead to feelings of stress, depression, and disconnectedness, impacting health.
When Disaster Becomes Commonplace: Reaction of Children and Adolescents to Prolonged Terrorist Attacks in Israel
Published in Gary Rosenberg, Andrew Weissman, International Social Health Care Policy, Programs, and Studies, 2012
Shlomo A. Sharlin, Victor Moin, Rivka Yahav
In all studies reviewed, children's responses to disaster were associated with those of their parents (Koplewicz et al., 2002; Jones, Ribbe & Cunningham, 1994; Shamai, 2002). Family resilience is analyzed as a mediator between the traumatic event and its impact on family members. However, in most of these studies, the children and/or their parents underwent direct disaster exposure (Koplewicz et al., 2002). It is unclear how children's reactions associate with those of their parents when neither the children nor the parents have been directly exposed to a traumatic event.
Family resilience and its predictors among patients with a first-ever stroke one month after stroke: a cross-sectional study
Published in Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation, 2023
Wei Zhang, Yitian Gao, Mingming Ye, Wanqiong Zhou, Lanshu Zhou
However, the lack of research into resilience in families with stroke patients means little is known about family resilience post-stroke. Based on the review of previous studies on different populations, potential factors influencing family resilience include individual, interpersonal and social factors. Individual self-efficacy,12,13 coping14 and social support15 were important protective factors for family resilience.16 However, few studies focused on the role of patients’ characteristics in predicting their family resilience. For example, patients’ self-efficacy for managing chronic disease—“a person’s confidence in their ability to manage fatigue, discomfort, pain, emotional distress or any other symptoms associated with managing a chronic condition,”17 and patients’ medical coping style—“the set of cognitive and behavioral strategies used by patients in dealing with disease-related stressful encounters.”18 The relationships among these variables and family resilience were worthwhile to be studied since they can be targeted for interventions. Moreover, demographic information such as age, gender, education level, and religion are correlated with family resilience.19–21
Assessing family resilience for African American college students: Confirmatory factor analysis of the Family Resilience Assessment Scale
Published in Journal of American College Health, 2022
Quandrea R. Harper, Scott M. Debb
Current models of resilience are criticized for not capturing the multidimensional nature of resilience and the impact of the family system.17 Resilience is the ability to adapt to adversity,18 whereas, family resilience incorporates individual and family bonds that strengthens one’s capacity to cope effectively.19 The Family Resilience Assessment Scale (FRAS)20 was developed to assess family resilience based on Walsh’s21 family resilience model, which places emphasis on influential sociodemographic factors that vary by culture, and the importance of social support to manage stress and crises during adjustment periods. Although the use of the FRAS seems suitable for African American college students, there is no evidence demonstrating that the FRAS is a valid measure for use with this population.
Experiences of adults as parents with cancer: a systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative studies
Published in Journal of Psychosocial Oncology, 2021
Joanna Matuszczak-Świgoń, Lucyna Bakiera
The basis for distinguishing adaptive strategies was the family resilience model by F. Walsh (2005).19,20 Family resilience is a dynamic process that, in the face of a critical life event, allows an individual (and a family) to develop adaptive (constructive) strategies for dealing with it. Family resilience consists of (1) individual and family development despite risk factors; (2) adaptive psychosocial functioning in response to severe stress; (3) recovery from critical events despite temporary impairment. Therefore, family resilience is more than coping with stressful conditions, surviving a hard time, or returning to a state of equilibrium, resilience means a positive adaptation, ability to develop, and positive changes in interpersonal relationships. This process enables constructive adaptation to the chronic stress of cancer. The strategies that are involved in family resilience allow the balance between the requirements of parenting and illness and the capabilities of the parent-patient to be developed, maintained, or restored. Based on the meta-analysis of studies on resilience and her own research F. Walsh (2005)19 created a theoretical model of family resilience in which she distinguished nine key transactional processes forming family resilience. Table 1 presents these adaptive processes which can protect a family against the negative consequences of parental cancer.