Family Resilience Paper

Every family experiences different types of stresses and negative emotional influences. For better coping with crisis and preparing to face difficulties, it’s important to build resilience. American Psychological Association states that “resilience is the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, tragedy, threats or significant sources of stress” (American Psychological Association, 2017). There are several factors helping people to build resilience, and the most important factor is to have supportive relationships in the family and society. I think it’s beneficial to have healthy relationships with family members, colleagues, and friends because they can offer a lot of supports when a family or a person faces crisis. I conducted an interview with my former homestay mother, who works for a non-profit organization that helps people to secure a job, and she told me a lot of information about how unemployment impacts the family function. She says most of the homeless people …show more content…
Walsh explains the genogram diagram is a tool to allow professionals create a visual network of relationship and patterns (Walsh, 2016). When I read the examples in the article, I feel that in a complicated situation, a genogram is useful to make everything clear, and points out what contributes to the problem. Also, like the ABC-x family model, the genogram can identify the potential resources such as pets as emotional support, and people usually neglect such small details. In addition, the questionnaire helps people to understand some strengths and weaknesses of the family, so they can start to build more resilience and gain knowledge of family stress prevention. I did mine, and I figured out I got a lot of 3 and 2 on a lot of options, so my family still has a lot of things to