Family Resilience: A Concept for Coping with Family Crisis

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to present the concept of family resilience in terms of the origins of the concept development, the main concept, and the key processes of the concept. Family resilience is the family's ability to endure, adapt, change, and capacity to bounce back to normality even when encountering problems, obstacles, or various crises with stability and strength. The important processes that lead to family resilience consist of three important processes, namely the process of belief systems, organizational patterns, communication and problem-solving. Although the family resilience concept has received widespread attention abroad, in Thailand, it was found that the concept of family resilience has been very rarely applied in research studies on family crisis issues, and it is often studied at the individual level, therefore, it is not widely known among researchers in Thailand. Understanding the concept of family resilience can help those who are interested in this idea to use it as an alternative approach to research studies or to develop further family promotion interventions and programs.