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Professionals who work from a strengths perspective focus on what is working in the family rather than what is not. There are several models of family strengths and they generally are comprised of attributes that are seen as positive and contributory to a sound family life. Resilience is a concept that is gaining increasing attention in the literature. It describes the capacity a family has to survive and recover from crisis and hardship. (non-author abstract)
Darbyshire et al. (Sat,) studied this question.