From Family Deficit to Family Strength: Viewing Families' Contributions to Children�s Learning from a Family Resilience Perspective

This article presents an overview of a researchinformed family resilience framework, developed as a conceptual map to guide school counselors' preventive and interventive efforts with students and their families. Key processes that characterize children's and families' resilience are outlined along with recommendations for how school counselors might apply this family resilience framework in their work.