Parent Resilience
- Resilience is the ability to cope, and even thrive, after a negative experience. The negative experience could be as simple as your child spilling milk or as dramatic as being involved in a car accident.
- Life stressors, such as a family history of abuse or neglect, health problems, marital conflict, and domestic or community violence—and financial stressors such as unemployment, poverty, and homelessness—may reduce a parent's capacity to cope effectively with the typical day-to-day stresses of raising children.
- All parents have inner strengths that can serve as a foundation for building their resilience. For you, it may be faith, flexibility, humor, communication skills, problem-solving skills, mutually supportive caring relationships, or the ability to identify and access outside resources and services when needed. Find whatever one works for you to help strengthen your capacity to parent effectively.
- Community services that help families in crisis include mental health programs, substance abuse treatment, family and marital counseling, and special education and treatment programs for children with special needs.
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