School of Social Work, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
Fam Process. 2010 Sep;49(3):421-35. doi: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2010.01331.x.
A social ecological model of resilience is used to show that resilience is dependent on a family's ability to both access available resources that sustain individual and collective well-being, as well as participate effectively in the social discourse that defines which resources are culturally and contextually meaningful. In this paper both clinical evidence and a review of the research inform an integrated social ecological model of practice that is focused on advocating for the mental health resources necessary to nurture resilience, including the individual and family processes of coconstruction of meaning. Family therapists can help marginalized families living in challenging contexts develop skills as both navigators who access resources, as well as negotiators who are able to convince therapists and other service providers of what are culturally and contextually meaningful sources of support. A case study of an African-Canadian youth and his family will be presented. The implications of this approach to assessing therapeutic outcomes will also be discussed.
采用社会生态模式来展现韧性，韧性取决于家庭获取维持个人和集体福祉的可用资源的能力，以及有效参与界定哪些资源在文化和背景上有意义的社会话语的能力。本文通过临床证据和研究回顾，提出了一个综合的社会生态实践模式，重点是倡导培育韧性所需的心理健康资源，包括个人和家庭共同构建意义的过程。家庭治疗师可以帮助生活在困难环境中的边缘化家庭发展技能，既要成为获取资源的导航者，也要成为能够让治疗师和其他服务提供者相信文化和背景上有意义的支持来源的谈判者。本文将介绍一个非裔加拿大青年及其家庭的案例研究。还将讨论这种评估治疗结果的方法的意义。
