A sian American and Pacific Islanders protective factors and resiliency processes across (AAPIs) are often portrayed as a AAPI ethnic groups (Yee, Huang, & Lew, 1998). resilient "model minority." AAPI indiIn this chapter, we highlight how AAPI families viduals have been described as being well eduprovide protection and diminish risk for family cated and financially stable; valuing hard work mem...

Background: Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Social, economic and cultural factors are main effective factors on person’s health. As university students are the spiritual resources of each society and the future manufacturers of their own country, the present study aimed to determine the predictive factors f...

This study used data from a sample of 6th to 12th grade students (N = 48,641, 51% female), nested in 192 schools, to determine if the influence of family-based protective factors varied across different school contexts. Hierarchical logistic regression models were used to examine the effects of individual-level family protective factors, relative to school-level aggregates of the same factors, ...

This study examined developmentally salient risk and protective factors of adolescent substance use assessed during early childhood and early adolescence using a sample of 310 low-income boys. Child problem behavior and proximal family risk and protective factors (i.e., parenting and maternal depression) during early childhood, as well as child and family factors and peer deviant behavior durin...

BACKGROUND This study explores the experience of palliative patients and their family members of a family meeting model, utilised as an instrument for the provision of spiritual and psychosocial care. In doing so the study embraces a broad understanding of spirituality which may or may not include formal religious practice and a concept of psychosocial care that includes: social and emotional w...

With the advent of the biopsychosocial approach in family therapy, the domain of spiritual issues is increasingly being recognized as important to families. This article will describe a graduate-level seminar on Spiritual Issues in Family Therapy at the University of San Diego that offers family therapy students the opportunity to examine issues of spirituality, religion, and meaning and their ...

Absolon uses the Medicine Wheel framework to discuss service provision and the need to determine what constitutes healing, as well as considering the negative influences. She states, “the presence of behaviours that contribute to and sustain ‘harmonious and cohesive’ relationships is essential” (p. 5). Healing is a process, characterized by the continuum inherent in the Medicine Wheel ... the h...