Facilitating Family Resilience in Clinical Practice

Becvar, Dorothy S.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-3917-2_4

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“…The findings also illustrated that having a child with ASD enhanced family cohesion within the nuclear as well as the extended family. The ability of the parents and other family members to make meaning out of the life changes that accompany raising a child with ASD is vital to the resilience development (Becvar, 2012). When parents and other family members accept the diagnosis and conditions of a child with ASD, the adaptation would further increase.…”

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Risk and Resilience Among Mothers and Fathers of Primary School Age Children With ASD in Malaysia: A Qualitative Constructive Grounded Theory Approach

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Little is known about the coping and resilience experiences of parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the Malaysian cultural context. This study utilized a qualitative methodological approach adopting constructive grounded theory. The study sought to address the lack of research to date exploring the risk and protective experiences that contribute to parental stress and resilience for parents of primary school age children with ASD in the Malaysian setting. Twenty-two parents of children with ASD (13 mothers and 9 fathers) participated in semi-structured interviews. A strength of the study was the inclusion of both mother and father participant perspectives. The interviews lasted 50–80 min (mean: 67.5 min). The 22 parents had a total of 16 children (12 males; 4 females) formally diagnosed with ASD. Child age ranged between 5 and 12 years (mean age: 8.44). Overall, analysis of the 22 interviews revealed four prominent themes – “initial reaction to child’s ASD symptoms and diagnosis,” “family life affected by a child with ASD,” “awareness about ASD in Malaysia,” and “coping strategies, wellbeing, and becoming resilient.” The first three themes revolved around stress and adversity, and, the adaptability and acceptance of the parents. These processes illustrated the risks experienced by the parents of children with ASD in Malaysia. The last theme especially highlighted the strengths and determination of the parents and illustrated the protective experiences and processes that helped parents to develop and enhance resilience. Overall, the findings revealed that resilience develops synergistically and dynamically from both risk and protective experiences across different levels – individual, family, community, society and government. The findings motivated the development of our theoretical model of resilience that can help health and education professionals tailor assessment and interventions for parents of children with ASD in the Malaysian context. Clinical, policy, and research suggestions were discussed.

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Risk and Resilience Among Mothers and Fathers of Primary School Age Children With ASD in Malaysia: A Qualitative Constructive Grounded Theory Approach

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“…Despite the rapidly growing literature on family resilience (Becvar, 2013; Ungar, 2012), few tools exist to assess this construct and, prior to the current study, no known measures of family resilience had been specifically tailored for use among service members and veterans. The results of this preliminary validation suggest the FRS-V has excellent reliability and strong construct validity as a measure of family resilience among IAV.…”

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“…Although Walsh’s model is central to current understandings of family resilience (Becvar, 2013), little research to date has empirically examined this model or its components. In addition, given the unique individual and family stressors associated with combat deployments, particularly when recurrent over a period of years as has been the case for IAV (Faber, Willerton, Clymer, MacDermid, & Weiss, 2008; P.…”

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Validation of a Measure of Family Resilience Among Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans

Finley

Pugh

Palmer

2016

Military Behavioral Health

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Although interactions within veterans’ families may support or inhibit resilient coping to stress and trauma across the deployment cycle, research on family resilience has been hampered by the lack of a brief assessment. Using a three-stage mixed-method study, we developed and conducted preliminary validation of a measure of family resilience tailored for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans (IAV), the Family Resilience Scale for Veterans (FRS-V), which was field-tested using a survey of 151 IAV. Our findings indicate the resulting 6-item measure shows strong initial reliability and validity and support the application of existing models of family resilience in this population.

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“…According to Becvar (2013) factors such as effective communication, problem-solving and coping with stress contribute to protecting families from the impact of risk factors. In this over-arching process the family resilience is facilitated by the following three processes: clarity, open emotional expression and collaborative problem-solving (Walsh, 2013).…”

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Family resilience – definition of construct and preliminary results of the Polish adaptation of the Family Resilience Assessment Scale (FRAS)

Nadrowska¹,

Błażek²,

Lewandowska-Walter³

2017

Current Issues in Personality Psychology

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Background The article describes construct of family resilience with the main focus on the model Walsh. The aim of this article is to present preliminary results: adaptation, reliability, statistical analyses of the Family Resilience Assessment Scale (FRAS) for the Polish population. Participants and procedure Participants (n = 329), aged 18-35, completed experimental Polish version of the FRAS (SPR – Skala Prężności Rodzinnej). In the procedure of adaptation, scale was translated and modified into Polish. Scale consists of the following subscales: Family Communication and Problem Solving, Utilizing Social and Economic Resources, Maintaining a Positive Outlook, Family Connectedness, Family Spirituality and Ability to Make Meaning of Adversity. Results The reliability of the experimental Polish version of the FRAS for the entire scale and five subscales are satisfactory. Only subscale Ability to Make Meaning of Adversity obtained reliability of less than 0.7. Taking into account the diversity of gender and declaring the passage through the difficult events were observed significant differences in the three scales: Family Communication and Problem Solving, Family Connectedness, Ability to Make Meaning of Adversity and total scale of FRAS. Conclusions The work on the questionnaire is still in progress and the results presented here should be considered as preliminary. In the next steps, the number of men should be increased in order to perform confirmatory factor analysis. Future studies should take into account a number of factors and contexts (e.g. family structure, social and cultural context and the type of stressful event).

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Facilitating Family Resilience in Clinical Practice

Cited by 13 publications

References 21 publications

Risk and Resilience Among Mothers and Fathers of Primary School Age Children With ASD in Malaysia: A Qualitative Constructive Grounded Theory Approach

Risk and Resilience Among Mothers and Fathers of Primary School Age Children With ASD in Malaysia: A Qualitative Constructive Grounded Theory Approach

Validation of a Measure of Family Resilience Among Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans

Family resilience – definition of construct and preliminary results of the Polish adaptation of the Family Resilience Assessment Scale (FRAS)

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