RESILIENCE IN GENERAL -- Roads to Understanding Family Resilience:  1920s to the 21st Century -- Operationalizing Family Resilience as Process:  Proposed Methodological Strategies -- The Ramifications for Clinical Practice of a Focus on Family Resilience -- Facilitating Family Resilience in Clinical Practice -- Community- Based Practice Applications of a Family Resilience Framework -- RESILIENCE AND FAMILIES -- Resilience Relative to Step Families -- Resilience in Military Marriages Experiencing Deployment -- Family Resilience and Parenting -- Family Resilience and At-Risk Youth -- Family Resilience in the Context of High Risk Situations -- RESILIENCE AND ETHNICITY -- Resilience in Ethnic Family Systems:  A Relational Theory for Research and Practice -- Native American Family Resilience -- Familias Fuertes: Family Resilience Among Latinos -- Resilience in Black Families -- Resilience Relative to Korean Families -- RESILIENCE, LOSS, AND GRIEF -- Family Resilience in the Wake of Loss:  A Meaning-Oriented Contribution -- Resilience as Tolerance for Ambiguity -- Bereavement in the Face of Perinatal Loss: A Hardiness Perspective -- Family Resilience Relative to Parental Death.-Resilience in Aging:  Moving through Challenge to Wisdom.-RESILIENCE AND ABILITY -- Family Resilience Relative to Children with Severe Disabilities -- Nurturing Family Resilience in Response to Chronic Illness:  An Integrative -- Approach to Health and Growth Promotion.-Enhancing Resilience in Families of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder -- Family Resilience Relative to Mental Health Challenges -- Strengthening Family Resilience through Spiritual and Religious Resources -- RESILIENCE, TRAUMA, AND ABUSE -- Family and Community Resilience Relative to the Experience of Mass Trauma: Connectedness to Family and Culture of Origin as the Core Components of Healing -- Resilience Despite Risk:  Understanding African American ACOAs? Kin and Fictive Kin Relationships -- Fostering Resilience in Daughters of Battered Women -- Family Resilience and Sexuality -- The Community as Family: Resilience in Older Women Religious Sexually Abused as Children.

In a time of increasing stressors affecting the lives of so many, resilience—the capacity for individuals to cope, adapt, survive, and thrive despite severe crises and long odds—is a hot topic. Now resilience as both a family trait and a family process is being recognized as equally deserving of study, especially as more families find themselves under greater social and economic strain. The Handbook of Family Resilience offers scholarly and practical perspectives on how resilient families adapt and adjust, for those seeking a deeper understanding of the concept as well as clinicians working hands-on with families. Resilience is seen as an evolving process over the lifespan as family members support one another, marshal their resources (internal and external), and maintain their functioning through normative, extraordinary, and multiple stressors. Contributors examine resilience across a diverse range of family structures, cultural groups, and challenging circumstances, with an array of timely topics including: Clinical ramifications of a focus on family resilience. Family resilience in the context of high-risk situations. Resilience in ethnic family systems. Enhancing resilience in families of children with autistic spectrum disorder. From challenge to wisdom: Resilience in aging. Family and community resilience in the experience of mass trauma. Resilience as tolerance for ambiguity. Resilience in the context of grief and loss. This book is an empowering resource for professionals and practitioners working with families, including sociologists, psychologists, therapists, and social workers. Its breadth of coverage makes it an invaluable text for researchers, graduate students, and faculty in family studies, couple and family therapy, child development, psychology, sociology, social work, public health, and related fields.