Strengthening Family Resilience - Hardcover

Walsh, Froma

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1572304081 ISBN 13: 9781572304086

Publisher: The Guilford Press, 1998

Synopsis

How do some families successfully weather crisis situations and adversity, while others weaken or even break apart? Focusing on what we can learn from resilient individuals and well-functioning families, this book provides clinicians with a framework for preventive and interventive work with families that are distressed or at risk. Froma Walsh draws on current research and extensive clinical experience to identify the key processes that buffer families in times of stress, including belief systems, family structure, and communication patterns. Readers learn strength- promoting, collaborative strategies for helping families deal with divorce, death, and other losses; multicrisis situations; and persistent challenges such as illness and poverty.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Drawing on her extensive experience as a family practitioner and researcher, in this volume Froma Walsh presents an approach to all kinds of families that recognizes and makes use of their resilience and often hidden resources. Bringing substance to the promise of a strengths perspective, this engaging, informative, and useful work is an invaluable resource for social work practitioners, educators, and students interested in families (Ann Hartman, DSW, Visiting Distinguished Professor, Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service, New York, Dean and Professor Emerita, Smith College School for Social Work, Northampton, Massachusetts).

About the Author:

Froma Walsh, PhD, is Professor in the School of Social Service Administration and the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Chicago. She is also the founding Codirector of the University-based Center for Family Health and its affiliated family therapy training institute, the Chicago Center for Family Health. She is the Editor of the Journal of Marital & Family Therapy, past president of the American Family Therapy Academy (AFTA), recipient of AFTA's Award for Distinguished Contribution to Family Therapy Theory and Practice, and an AAMFT Approved Supervisor. Her edited or coedited publications include Normal Family Processes, Second Edition; Women in Families; Living Beyond Loss; and a forthcoming book on spirituality and family therapy.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Guilford Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1572304081
• ISBN 13: 9781572304086
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 338