As I was wanting to learn more about this topic, I decided to do a little research of my own, because I just love learning more about issues that are facing families, and even more importantly, my family.
From this peer-reviewed article, Integrating Family Resilience and Family
Stress Theory, it states that in order to have a good “healthy” family each
member needs to strive to make it work. That is what makes a good family. So
what makes a good family? It has been found that communication; selflessness,
working hard, commitment, and affection are ways to have an effective family
balance. It is even safe to say that this can also be applied to have an
overall balanced marriage.
The principles applied within the family should also take place
within a couple to work towards achieving a happy healthy marriage. When
children can see the example that their parents are to them, it helps the
children see what it takes to raise a family and also to keep your marriage
intact as well. Studies done on families with “strong ties” are more likely to
be committed, spend time together, appreciate one another, have effective
communication, healthy spiritual wellness, and know how to cope with stress and
crisis when it arises and to not give up. This type of ‘family dynamic’ is one
that should be implemented within each and every family around the globe. This
not only affects the husband and wife, but it affects the children as well.
When a family is striving to maintain a healthy balance of those traits listed,
then everyone collectively is able to have more value placed on their family.
That sense of not giving up keeps the family united and strong.
The article points out what it means to integrate, Family Resilience and Family Stress Theory
within a families practice. By implementing this theory into your family you
are able to overcome a lot of the stresses that come from everyday family
issues. The theory is supposed to resolve conflict, and help families to see
where they can continue to improve. Every member is supposed to contribute to
make the overall family unit stronger and more effective in the end. By
developing this theory into the family it helps the dynamic functions of the
family function better and more properly. It helps the family to understand
where they are at, and is modeled in such a way to clarify distinctions between
family resiliency in its meaning, and the normal changes in family life. It
will then help families with the importance of making conceptual and
operational distinctions between family outcomes and processes. The theory
takes an in depth look at what the family system is and analyzes it in such a
way by breaking down the different parts of the family to distinguish where the
family can improve. By understanding this concept the Theory will help families
to cope with life, and give them the realization that they need to strengthen
their family ties. There is an importance in knowing that there are going to be
changes occurring within the family and the outcome in how to handle it is
where the Theory takes a play. It will truly help struggling families overcome
everyday hard ‘family life’ situations.
I believe that if every
individual would learn about integrating the Family Resilience and this Family
Stress Theory into their own family of origin, that many families would be
saved as an outcome. It breaks down what the Theory means, and how it can be
implemented to basic family life. The more that we strive to learn, the more
good it does rather than harm. I hope to take what I have learned from the
article to apply it within my own growing family; that it can have a lasting positive affect on the way my family is strengthened. This is what makes our family a good one.
Integrating Family Resilience and
Family Stress Theory
Joän
M. Patterson
Page 349 of
349-360
Journal of
Marriage and Family 64 (May 2002)
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