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Roads to Understanding Family Resilience: 1920s to the Twenty-First Century

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Several types of resilience and associated topics that may be of interest to family therapists and other professionals concerned with family studies and interventions exist. Among them is individual resilience, which includes children’s resilience, hardiness, salutogenesis, and other related topics. The notion of resilience arose from a focus on children and how they functioned in relation to their early life experiences.

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     This topic is addressed in depth in Chap. 17

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     This topic is addressed in depth in Chap. 5

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Nichols, W.C. (2013). Roads to Understanding Family Resilience: 1920s to the Twenty-First Century. In: Becvar, D. (eds) Handbook of Family Resilience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3917-2_1

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