Families who "struggle well" and become resilient do so through processes that "can reduce stress and vulnerability in high-risk situations, foster healing and growth out of crisis, and empower families to overcome persistent adversity" (Walsh, 2003, p. 405). Although use of the term resilience has been the subject of some debate (e.g., Hawley & DeHaan, 1996; Luthar, Cicchetti, & Becker, 2000;Masten, 2001), it reflects the idea that a person (or, in our research, a family) has strengths or resources that have allowed him or her to overcome a challenging experience and to thrive following that experience (Cowan, Cowan, & Shultz, 1996;Patterson, 2002). As opposed to survival (Walsh, 1999), resilience is a dynamic process (Walsh, 2003). Because we share the view of some family scientists who differentiate resilience, a process, from resiliency, an outcome (e.g., Patterson, 2002), we designed our research project on the adaptation of families following Hurricane Katrina to investigate both resilience and resiliency. Considerable research has focused

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