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Resilience Relative to Korean Families

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This drive to lift oneself up after a fall and to come back stronger, faster, and smarter is evident in resilient Korean families. History has shown, time and time again, that Korean families have the ability to pull together the necessary psychological, spiritual, interpersonal, and material resources to overcome adversities and to emerge with broader skills and knowledge, with a deeper sense of well-being; all necessary qualities to improve their lives and the lives of their kin.

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    Note to clinicians: Thorough knowledge of the particular Korean families one is working with is critical if one is to interweave successfully the ideas expressed in this chapter with clinical conceptualizations of the ways resilience can be tailored to their specific cultural and contextual worldviews.

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Rigazio-DiGilio, S., Ki, P. (2013). Resilience Relative to Korean Families. In: Becvar, D. (eds) Handbook of Family Resilience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3917-2_15

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