Resilience in Ethnic Family Systems: A Relational Theory for Research and Practice

Family Resilience Among Sojourning Japanese Mothers: Links to Marital Satisfaction and Children's Behavioral Adjustment

“…This suggests that mothers who perceived a direct engagement to create or brainstorm solutions for immediate challenges reported having children with fewer behavioral adjustments. Similarly, McCubbin and McCubbin () argued that among ethnic family systems, family functioning (including children's adjustment) is guided by the belief system and core values. Particularly, McCubbin and McCubbin () indicated that among Japanese families in the United States, Japanese values and beliefs in family commitment influenced parent–child relationships and family dynamics.…”

Applying a Family Resilience Framework in Training, Practice, and Research: Mastering the Art of the Possible

“…Recent research on resilience in neurobiology and epigenetics (Kim-Cohen & Turkewitz, 2012;Russo, Murrough, Han, Charney, & Nestler, 2012) show that individual vulnerability or the negative impact of stressful conditions can be counteracted by positive interpersonal and environmental influences, producing neurological, physiological, and even genetic changes. The vital contribution of cultural and spiritual resources in resilience is receiving increasing attention (McCubbin & McCubbin, 2013;Walsh, 2009b). Larger systems approaches are being directed to understand and promote family and community resilience in collective trauma (Landau, 2007;Norris, Stevens, Pfefferbaum, Wyche, & Pfefferbaum, 2008;Saul, 2013;Saul & Simon, 2016;Walsh, 2007Walsh, , 2016b, social resilience (Cacioppo, Reis, & Zautra, 2011), and interconnected global and environmental resilience.…”

Family Resilience: Moving into the Third Wave

“…Wave 2 also addressed family resilience and specific risks and ecosystems. Family risks may be (a) vertical risks (or ongoing stressors) including risk statuses (e.g., ethnicity, immigrant status, unmarried fathers–mothers relationships) and risks in ongoing family interaction patterns (e.g., poor communication or conflict resolution, family violence, addiction), or (b) horizontal risks that serve as time‐specific perturbations to ongoing family interaction patterns (e.g., military deployment, challenges to physical and mental well‐being, mass trauma, family violence, economic stress, work–family fit, reunification of children and families, childhood cancer, terrorism, and war; Becvar, ; Conger & Conger, ; Fagan & Palkovitz, ; Grzywacz & Bass, ; Lietz & Strength, ; L. D. McCubbin & McCubbin, ; McGoldrick & Shibusawa, ; Raffaelli & Wiley, ; Wadsworth, ). During Wave 2, family scholars acknowledged the interface of family risk and resilience with family ecosystems including social, psychological, economic, biological, and historic contexts (Boss, ; Hawley & DeHaan, ; Patterson, ; Walsh, ).…”

“…During Wave 2, family scholars acknowledged the interface of family risk and resilience with family ecosystems including social, psychological, economic, biological, and historic contexts (Boss, ; Hawley & DeHaan, ; Patterson, ; Walsh, ). L. D. McCubbin and McCubbin (), for example, emphasized culture as a key component of family resilience by developing and testing the relational and resilience theory of ethnic family systems (R&RTEFS).…”