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Family scholars now seem to agree on a definition of family resilience—namely that resilient families are those that, confronted with adversity, get beyond it to grow and become stronger in the process. Rather than limiting conceptualizations of resilience to individual children who seem to be able to succeed in the face of adversity, or to explanations of “protective factors” that may insulate “at-risk” children from failure, recent emphasis has been on the resilient family in its own right.
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Hollingsworth, L.D. (2013). Resilience in Black Families. In: Becvar, D. (eds) Handbook of Family Resilience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3917-2_14
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