Toward an integration of family systems and developmental  psychopathology approaches

Davies, Patrick T.; Cicchetti, Dante

doi:10.1017/s0954579404004626

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“…AAPIW's resilience is demonstrated in their lives prior to migrating to the United States, further developed during their experiences of adversities in their American lives, and transmitted to their offspring. These findings imply that resilience must be examined with a systems perspective (MacPhee, Lunkenheimer, & Riggs, 2015), which means that resilience is not simply an outcome but a dynamic process developed through multiple pathways (Davis & Cicchetti, 2004). Therefore, nurses who provide culturally sensitive health care services to AAPIW populations must not only integrate interventions that promote AAPIW's resilience but also consider the broader context in which this resilience is developed.…”

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Asian American women's resilience: An integrative review

Reyes¹,

Constantino²

2016

Asian/Pacific Island Nursing Journal

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Asian American women face unique stressors that threaten their overall health and well-being. However, resilience is a phenomenon that allows individuals to develop positive adaptation despite adversities and challenges. This integrative review is conducted in order to explore the current state of knowledge regarding the resilience of Asian American women. Twelve databases were used to identify related articles: Academic Search Premier, CI-NAHL, ERIC, Ethnic NewsWatch, GenderWatch, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global, ProQuest Sociological Abstracts, PsycINFO, PubMed, SAGE (Psychology and Sociology collections), Scopus, and Web of Science. Twenty-one research studies met the inclusion criteria of the integrative review. Five common themes emerged from the analysis of the studies: (a) resilience as conceptualized as a coping strategy, (b) resilience as related to social support and network, (c) resilience as an enduring phenomenon, (d) resilience as connected to bicultural identity, and (e) resilience as an emancipatory perspective and experience. These themes imply that resilience is a developmental process, culture has a significant influence on resilience, and Asian American women are a vulnerable and marginalized group. Further recommendations for nursing practice and research are discussed as related to these implications. Keywords: Asian American women, coping, resilience, resiliencyResilience is the ability to process and manage experiences that buffer the negative effects of stress; it allows individuals to overcome challenges and helps them develop positive adaptation skills despite setbacks (Dyer & McGuinness, 1996;Luthar, Cicchetti, & Becker, 2000;Rutter, 1993 Asian/Pacific Islander women living in the United States-whether newcomers, immigrants, permanent residents, or citizens-face specific mental health challenges. For example, in a national survey, AAPIW had the highest rate compared to White, Black, and Hispanic women of reporting trauma from being a refugee or civilian in a war zone (Roberts, Gilman, Breslau, Breslau, & Koenen, 2011). AAPIW hold more negative cognitions (i.e., views about the self, the world, and self-blame) than their White counterparts about sexual abuse events that occurred in the past, which increases their likelihood of developingCreative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which allows others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can't change them in any way or use them commercially. (Curtin, Warner, & Hedegaard, 2016). Suicide is the second leading cause of death among AAPIW aged 20 to 24 years (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2013). In a study of acculturated AAPIW, over 40% of participants reported currently experiencing moderate to severe depression while 57% of these AAPIW did not have depression (Augsberger, Yeung, Dougher, & Hahm, 2015). Studies have shown that stress rela...

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Asian American women's resilience: An integrative review

Reyes¹,

Constantino²

2016

Asian/Pacific Island Nursing Journal

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“…Guided by a number of principles that bind family systems theory and developmental psychopathology (summarized in Davies and Cicchetti 2004), this study sought to examine the nature and course of the relationship between family dysfunction and childhood anxiousness. We applied a pattern-centered approach to generate distinct life course trajectories for both variables, allowing us to respect the influence of continuity, interconnectness, contextual factors, and timing.…”

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“…We apply a multiconceptual backdrop that comprises complementary, yet distinct approaches: family systems theory; developmental psychopathology; and the life-course analytical framework. This approach is inspired, in part, by Davies and Cicchetti (2004) and Repetti et al (2002).…”

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Links Between Life Course Trajectories of Family Dysfunction and Anxiety During Middle Childhood

Pagani

Japel

Vaillancourt

et al. 2007

J Abnorm Child Psychol

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Using data from three waves of a large Canadian data set, we examine the relationship between two middle childhood trajectory variables, family dysfunction and anxiety. We draw upon family systems theory and developmental psychopathology, while attempting to expand their boundaries by capitalizing on the strengths within both approaches. Our data treatment strategy, guided by the life course analytical framework, included separate multivariate logits to examine this relationship, with and without the extent to, which selected explanatory risk variables predicted belonging to the highest family dysfunction trajectory. We also explored possible interactions between anxiety and explanatory risk variables. Supporting our hypothesis, a prolonged duration of high doses of family dysfunction was associated with the most extreme developmental trajectories of anxious behavior during middle childhood for both boys and girls. This relationship prevailed above and beyond the influence of other correlates of family dysfunction such as marital transition, socioeconomic status, family size, and depressive symptoms experienced by the informant (mostly mothers).

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“…Divorce can produce a general sense of vulnerability to abandonment or loss [34] and has been linked to increased attention to threat cues [35], exaggerated threat appraisals [36], and emotional and biological sensitivity toward potential threat [37,38]. For children of divorce, a sense of vulnerability may be particularly salient when fathers leave the home and the availability of a primary caregiving source becomes unclear [39].…”

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