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This document discusses the concept of resiliency and how families can build resilience to withstand stress. It defines resiliency as the ability to adapt and thrive during difficult times. The document notes that families experience various sources of stress and lists eight traits of resilient families, including commitment, connectedness, and communication. It encourages participants to identify strengths in families they know and strategies to strengthen resilience, such as maintaining physical, intellectual, social, emotional and spiritual well-being.
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Resiliency Powerpoint

This document discusses the concept of resiliency and how families can build resilience to withstand stress. It defines resiliency as the ability to adapt and thrive during difficult times. The document notes that families experience various sources of stress and lists eight traits of resilient families, including commitment, connectedness, and communication. It encourages participants to identify strengths in families they know and strategies to strengthen resilience, such as maintaining physical, intellectual, social, emotional and spiritual well-being.
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Resiliency:

Strength Under Stress

UW-Extension Family
Living
Families in Stress and Transition State
Team
Participants will:
 Define the concept of resiliency
 List traits of resilient families
 Identify strengths in a family they know
 Identify strategies to build resiliency in
themselves and others
We all have difficult times
Families experience stress
 What are some typical, predictable
sources of stress in family life across the
age span?
 What might be an unexpected crisis?
Stress comes from many
sources
 Normal changes in our lives
• e.g., leaving home; birth of a child; getting older

 Unexpected events
• e.g., death of a loved one, job loss, severe illness,
winning the lottery.

 Developments in the world around us


• e.g., poverty, crime, school violence, social and
political trends
Resiliency is the ability to
Not only survive, but thrive!

In order to remain strong, we must


stretch ourselves and spring forward!
Definitions of resiliency
 “The path a family follows as it adapts and prospers
in the face of stress.” (Hawley and DeHaan, 2003)
 “Capacity to cultivate strengths to positively meet the
challenges of life.” (Silliman, 1994)
 “Ability to bounce back from adversity” (Stuart, 2004)
 “Capacity to rebound from adversity strengthened
and more resourceful” (Walsh,1998)
What helps you be strong under
stress?
 Think back to a rough time in your own
life. What did you do that helped? (For
example, talked to friends,)

 Now think about that rough time and


identify what qualities were helpful in
keeping you resilient. (For example, a
sense of humor.)
8 Traits of Resilient Families
 Commitment  Connectedness
 Time Together  Adaptability
 Respect  Communication
 Spirituality  Cohesion
All families have strengths!
 Think of a family you know.
 What resiliency strengths do they have?
 What’s one area you think is not as
strong?
 What could you do to help strengthen
that area?
Walsh’s Key Processes in Family
Resilience: Belief System
 Resilient families:
Make meaning of crisis and
challenge
Maintain a positive outlook

Value spirituality
Walsh’s Key Processes in Family
Resilience: Organization
 Resilient families:
Are flexible
Stay connected
Use their “lifelines”
Walsh’s Key Processes in Family
Resilience: Communication
 Resilient families:
Share clear, consistent messages
Openly express their emotions
Solve problems together
We need resiliency in all
domains
 Physical
 Intellectual
 Social
 Emotional
 Spiritual
Brainstorm!
 What could people do in each of the five
domains to keep themselves and their
families strong under stress?
Physical Domain
 Actively work to protect and
enhance physical wellness
 Plan for and make healthy and
attractive food choices
 Plan for and engage in enjoyable
physical activity
Intellectual Domain
 Understand what are normal
changes across the lifespan
 Use flexible problem-solving

 Seek challenges

 Keep mentally active


Social
 Regularly connect with each other
(rituals, routines, and traditions)
 Maintain supportive social networks
and close kin relationships
 Have access to sufficient
community resources
Emotional
 Use flexible and adaptive problem-
solving
 Communicate feelings appropriately
and interact respectfully and safely
 Respond sensitively and effectively
to others
Spiritual
 Have a positive or optimistic outlook
 Engage in regular reflection,
meditation, or prayer
 Are cognizant of own important
values
What about you?
 What do you already do to help
strengthen your resiliency?

 What is one thing you could start doing


to build resiliency?

 How could you help others be resilient?


Resiliency:

It’s not what happens to you but what


you make out of what happens to you
that makes you resilient.

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