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Spiritual Resources in Familiesand Family Therapy
Samaritan Institute Annual ConferenceAugust 6, 2011
Part 2
Froma Walsh, PhDMose & Sylvia Firestone Professor Emerita,
School of Social Service Administration, The University of [email protected] www.ccfhchicago.org
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Spiritual Resources
In Suffering, Healing, and Resilience
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Resilience:Overcoming Adversity
Ability to rebound from life crises and disruptive life challenges,
strengthened and more resourceful
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RuggedIndividual
InvulnerableSelf-Reliant
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RelationalResilience
Lifelinesof Connection
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Human – Animal Bonds
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Guardian Angel
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Perhaps they are not stars in the skyBut rather openings
Where our loved ones shine downTo let us know they are happy
And to light our way
…..Native American
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Strengthening Family Resilience:
Relational Lifelines~~~~~~~
Facilitate coping, adaptation,
healing, and positive growth
Through family, community, cultural, and spiritual connections
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Facilitating Resilience
Identify, build resources that help clients to:
– Recover from Crisis, Trauma, Loss
– Cope with Multiple, Persistent Stresses• e.g. chronic illness, poverty conditions
– Navigate Disruptive Life Transitions• e.g. job loss, separation, divorce, migration
– Overcome Barriers to Thrive• e.g. At-risk, vulnerable youth
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KEYS TO FAMILY RESILIENCEBelief Systems
1. Making Meaning of Crisis & Challenge2. Positive Outlook: Hope3. Transcendence & Spirituality
Organizational Resources
4. Flexibility / Stability5. Connectedness; Leadership6. Kin, Social, & Economic Resources
Communication Processes
7. Clear, consistent messages8. Emotional Sharing; Humor / respite9. Collaborative Problem-solving / Proaction
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Belief Systems
The Heart and Soul of ResilienceRooted in family history, culture, religion
Influence our world view, response to adversity
1. Meaning Making
2. Positive Outlook: Hope; Mastery
3. Transcendence -- Transformation
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Seeing is believingWestern Scientific perspective
We must believe in somethingTo be able to see it
Native American perspective
We do not see things as they are --We see them as we are.
The Talmud
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1. Meaning Making• Relational View of Resilience
• Connection, "Lifelines" vs. “rugged individual”
• Contextualize, Humanize, Depathologize Distress
• Gain Sense of Coherence:– View challenges as:
• Meaningful, Comprehensible, Manageable
• Facilitative Appraisal of Situation; Options– Explanatory, causal; Why me / Us? – Future expectations / catastrophic fears/ Agency
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2. Positive Outlook
• Instill Hope – “Oxygen for the Spirit”• Encouragement; Build Confidence:
"Can Do" Spirit
• Focus on Strengths, Abilities; Potential• Active Initiative & Perseverance
• Master the Art of the Possible -- Accept what can't be changed
Tolerate uncertainty
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Master the Art of the Possible:
Do all you can With what you have
In the time you have In the place you are
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Serenity Prayerin Addictions Recovery
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot changeThe courage to change what I can
And the wisdom to know the difference
Reinhold Niebuhr
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3. Transcendence• Larger Values, Purpose
• Spirituality: Faith, Practices, Rituals, Community
• Inspiration / aspirations: – Envision new possibilities; Life dreams
– Creative expression
• Transformation: Learning, Change, & Growth– Appreciate life, loved ones; deepen / repair bonds– Reassess, redirect life priorities – Service, Social activism to benefit others / all
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One by one, day by day,
Move on from setbacks;
Refuse to give up;
Go confidently towards your dreams.
Buddhist saying
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Let Nothing Dim the Light
that Shines from Within
--Maya Angelou
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Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers
'Grow, grow'
-- The Talmud
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Do all the good you canBy all the means you can
In all ways you canIn all places you can
To all the people you canAs long as ever you can.
-- John Wesley, founder of Methodists
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Our country demonstrated that there are ways other than violence
to deal with difference and conflict: the way of forgiveness,
the way of reconciliation.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Prize Winner
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Resilience of the human spirit:
The capacity to bring out the best
In the worst of times
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In strengthening resilience, We strive to integrate the experience
of crisis and adversity-- and our resilient response –
Into the fabric of our individual and collective identity, Influencing how
we go on to live our lives.
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Part 3. Traumatic Loss, Recovery, & Resilience
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Family Resilience Meta-Framework for Practice
• Shift Focus from Family Deficits, Limitations
to Strengths, Resources, Potential
• Developmental, Systemic Perspective•Bio-Psycho-Social-Spiritual Influences•Family Challenged by Adversity -- timeline: events•Family Response: Facilitates Adaptation
of all Members, Relationships
• Relational View of Human Resilience• Use genogram: identify kin, social, community, &
spiritual resources• Recruit models, mentors for at-risk youth• Build life-lines, teams, networks
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Family Resilience Meta-Framework for Practice (2)
• Stresses impact family; Family coping influences adaptation of all members, relationships, and family unit
• Contextual View of Distress, Wellbeing, & Adaptation: Larger systems: workplace, healthcare, schools; social structures, access to resources all important
• Varied Challenges and Pathways in Resilience: • No single model fits all families, resources & challenges
• Prevention: By strengthening resilience, families and children become more resourceful to meet future challenges.
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Facilitating Family Resilience: Practice Guidelines
• Core Conviction in Strengths, Potential of all Youth & Families, alongside Vulnerabilities, Limitations
• Language, Framing to Depathologize, Humanize
• Contextualize Distress; Decrease Shame, Blame
• Compassion for Suffering, Struggle, Disappointments, Losses • Focus on Strengths, Interests, Abilities, Gifts• View Crisis as Opportunity for Learning & Positive Change
• Shift Focus from Problems to Possibilities forMastery, Healing, & GrowthSteps toward Future Hopes and Dreams
• Integrate Challenges and Resilience into the Fabric of Personal & Relational Lives.
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Guidelines to Facilitate Healing, Resiliencefrom Complicated or Traumatic Loss
• Start by grounding in their family, community,
cultural, & spiritual connections. • Invite them to share their loss experience. • Offer compassionate witnessing of recent (&
ongoing) losses, hardships, or injustices suffered.• Draw out, affirm strengths in coping efforts; • Link with kin, community, spiritual resources• Re-member persons & relationships lost;
• Continuing Bonds: Spiritual connection, Stories, Deeds
• Future orientation: renew / revise hopes, dreams
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