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Friesen, B. & Brennan, E. (2005). Strengthening families and communities: system building for resilience. In M. Ungar Handbook for working with children and youth: Pathways to resilience across cultures and contexts (pp. 295-312). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. doi: 10.4135/9781412976312.n18

Friesen, Barbara and Eileen Brennan. "Strengthening Families and Communities: System Building for Resilience." In Handbook for Working with Children and Youth: Pathways to Resilience across Cultures and Contexts, 295-312. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2005. doi: 10.4135/9781412976312.n18.

Friesen, B & Brennan, E 2005, 'Strengthening families and communities: system building for resilience', in Handbook for working with children and youth: pathways to resilience across cultures and contexts, SAGE Publications, Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA, pp. 295-312, viewed 6 December 2019, doi: 10.4135/9781412976312.n18.

Friesen, Barbara and Eileen Brennan. "Strengthening Families and Communities: System Building for Resilience." Handbook for Working with Children and Youth: Pathways to Resilience across Cultures and Contexts. Michael Ungar. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2005. 295-312. SAGE Knowledge. Web. 6 Dec. 2019, doi: 10.4135/9781412976312.n18.

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Strengthening Families and Communities: System Building for Resilience
Strengthening families and communities: System building for resilience
Barbara J. Friesen
EileenBrennan

Parenting any child is a challenging, dynamic process. When a child's disability requires special care or places physical, economic, social, and emotional demands on the family, this challenge to family resources may in itself become a risk factor for the healthy development of that child and others in the family. However, Masten (2001) reminds us of the “ordinary magic” associated with the adaptive capacities of all children. She asserts that resilience is more common than not and concludes that

very little evidence has emerged … to indicate that severe adversity has major or lasting effects on adaptive behaviors in the environment unless important adaptive systems, such as cognition and ...

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