Family Resilience and Caregiving

Family resilience and parenting stress in poor families

“…This level of family resilience may be the result of the action of protection mechanisms developed in the trajectory of family development, as well as the construction of new resources to deal with adversities. These resources are related to family members, the family unit, and their development contexts, as well as the stage of the life cycle (Henry et al, 2018). Therefore, the presence of assistance and more supportive relationships between the members and between the family, while contexts can be a crucial element for adjustment and adaptation (Maitoza, 2019;Patterson, 2002).…”

“…Such components are relevant to understanding the functionality of families, as they can indicate elements of risk and protection for development, since risks and opportunities can occur in proximal and distal contexts (Henry, Hubbard, Spencer, & Struckmeyer, 2018). According to this perspective, McCubbin and Patterson (1983) and Patterson (2002) consider that the ability of families to cope and adapt in the face of adversity is related to four fundamental aspects: (1) the characteristics of the individuals who make up the family system; (2) the internal resources of the family; (3) community resources available to the family; and (4) the family's perception of adversities.…”

“…Family resilience can be understood as the family's ability to reduce the disturbing impact of one or more stressful situations through relational processes that allow the influence of demands while allowing individuals to find resources, as well as the possible expansion or creation of resources over time (Henry et al, 2018). In this perspective, elements of the mesosystem such as the social and affective support network are also undeniably important, the interactions carried out in the community, the network of relationships, religion and other similar groups reflect the relational quality of family members and the possibility of maturity and psychological development (Walsh, 2015).…”

Family dynamics and the transition to end‐of‐life caregiving: A brief review and conceptual framework

“…Much like family caregiving, family-level analysis integrates a broad definition of family (as addressed previously) and multiple family system levels, including individual family members (such as caregiver, care receiver, parent, spouse), family subsystems (partners or spouses, siblings, parent-child, grandparent and grandchild, etc. ), and the overall family system (Henry et al, 2018). Relationships among family members are an important proximal process wherein contextual factors influence and mutually reinforce each other (Osher et al, 2017).…”

Exploring the Paradox of Care: Differences in Older Adult and Proxy Ratings of Health and Subjective Well-being

“…Psychosocial resources are conceptualized as protective factors an individual can draw upon to indirectly or directly off-set the noxious impact of everyday stressors [24,25]. Such resources may consist of inner strengths (e.g., spirituality, place attachment), as well as socio-environmental attachments (e.g., family, friends, neighbors) [26]. For instance, spirituality is an intra-personal dimension that produces meaning and transcendent experience beyond normative human consciousness [27] comes (e.g., morale, happiness, life satisfaction) [28].…”