In the context of family adaptive capacity, describe family strengths and resilience

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

? Resilience is the capability of individuals and families to sustain their functioning and to thrive when threatened by risk and adversity. It is the answer to the question "Why do some families succeed even when they suffer significant adversity?" Although resilience as a concept has been developed and operationalized by developmental psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers at the individual level (Fraser, 2004), a small number of scholars have extended resilience to the study of families.
The strengths perspective and the concept of resilience are closely related. The strengths perspective is based on the empowering notion that all people can change and grow, and, when applied at the family system level, that all families have available to them strengths that can be enlisted in the service of growth and change. In essence, a strengths assessment highlights what is working in families and balances it with the presenting concern. Assessing and accrediting the strengths inherent in the family system require the deliberate and disciplined effort of all involved.
Research on family resilience has used primarily qualitative methods, resulting in a limited list of so-called resilience factors. These factors provide families with resources for problem solving and patterned ways of approaching challenges that promote growth and successful adaptation. In no way do resilience factors keep problems from happening. However, by including resilience factors in an assessment of family system functioning, social workers and families can have a full appreciation of the myriad ways that families attempt to cope with difficult problems.