Cultivating Systemic Resilience in Therapy Applications and Interventions for Families, Relationships, and Individuals

1. Introduction

Christie Eppler

2. Empowering Communities Through Systemic Resilience: A Fusion of Liberation Psychology and Adaptive Coping Strategies

Raquel Martin

3. Intersections of Systemic Resilience and Spirituality in First Nation Narratives

Arynn Prescott, Christie Eppler and Jeanette Rodriguez

4. Approaching Resilience Through Contextual and Systemic Frameworks

Elizabeth R. Watters and Gita Seshadri

5. Biopsychosocial–Spiritual Resilience Interview: Understanding and Promoting Well-Being in Patients Living With Medical Conditions

Jackie Williams-Reade

6. A Systemic and Whole-Person Framework for Supporting Physician Resilience and Well-Being

Jessica ChenFeng

7. Systemic Resilience and Abolition: Developing Individual and Communal Capacities to Respond to Harm and Violence

Maggie Baisley

8. Resilience as a Secure Attachment Pattern

Eli Harwood

9. Cultivating Systemic Resilience of Black Adolescents With Disordered Eating: Targeting Belief Systems as a Mechanism for Change

Ashley A. Hicks and Casey C. Levy

10. Fostering Systemic Resilience in Foster and Kinship Care

Yolanda Wearing and Raquel Martin

11. Grief and Resilience After the Death of a Dog

Jennifer Golbeck

12. Beyond Pathology: The Role of Diagnosis in Resilience

Jamesen Natwick

13. Beyond Self-Care: Intentional Practices of Resilient Therapists

Rebecca A. Cobb and Christie Eppler

14. A Personal Reflection on Promoting Resilience in the Systemic Treatment of Addiction

Jasmine L. Pickens

15. CREATE Model of Culturally Attuned, Resilience-Based Supervision

LaDonna M. Smith

Biography

Christie Eppler, PhD, LMFT is a program director and professor of Seattle University’s Master of Arts in Couples and Family Therapy. She is an American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) Approved Supervisor. The focus of her clinical practice, teaching, and research is systemic resilience, justice, and narrative therapy.

"This valuable clinical guide expands our understanding and ways to cultivate resilience in therapy with clients who face injustice, hardship, and adversity. Chapters center marginalized peoples and their social context, sensitively attuned to their lived experience, beliefs, and aspirations. In our increasingly complex world, this systemic approach attends to the interconnection of individual, relational, family, community, cultural, and spiritual influences in overcoming adversity and flourishing in life. Highly recommended to inform and inspire both beginning and seasoned practitioners!" Froma Walsh, PhD, Professor Emerita, University of Chicago, Co-Founder & Co-Director, Chicago Center for Family Health, Author, Strengthening Family Resilience (3rd Ed.)

"Having served as a clinical director for many years, I know my students would enjoy and benefit from this text. The book presents theories of resilience in a manner that is easy to understand and apply in diverse settings." Martha Morgan Gobert, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Global

"Dr. Christie Eppler has assembled a diverse and experienced group of authors who have written about the important topic of cultivating systemic resilience in families, relationships, and individuals. As a resilience researcher, I am impressed by the depth and scope of this work and the wide range of populations and identities to which it applies. I found each chapter to be practical, and a resource for all systemic therapists." Adrian Blow, PhD, Professor of Couple and Family Therapy, Michigan State University