Strengthening Family Resilience, Second Edition

Froma Walsh

Guilford Publications, Aug 1, 2006 - Psychology - 384 pages

This informative clinical resource and text presents Froma Walsh's family resilience framework for intervention and prevention with clients dealing with adversity. Drawing on extensive research and clinical experience, the author describes key processes in resilience for practitioners to target and facilitate. Useful guidelines and case illustrations address a wide range of challenges: sudden crisis, trauma, and loss; disruptive transitions, such as job loss, divorce, and migration; persistent multistress conditions of serious illness or poverty; and barriers to success for at-risk youth.

About the author

Froma Walsh, PhD, is the Mose and Sylvia Firestone Professor in the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago. She also has a joint appointment in the Department of Psychiatry, Pritzker School of Medicine, and is Co-Director of the university-affiliated Chicago Center for Family Health. She is a past president of the American Family Therapy Academy (AFTA) and past editor of the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy. Dr. Walsh has received awards for her distinguished contributions and leadership in the field of family therapy from the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association, the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, and AFTA. She speaks and consults internationally on resilience-oriented research, professional training, and practice.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Strengthening Family Resilience, Second Edition; The Guilford family therapy series
• Author: Froma Walsh
• Edition: 2
• Publisher: Guilford Publications, 2006
• ISBN: 160623840X, 9781606238400
• Length: 384 pages
• Subjects: Medical / Psychiatry / General; Psychology / Psychotherapy / Couples & Family; Social Science / Social Work