Fostering family resilience: A community participatory action research perspective

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dc.contributor.authorIsaacs, Serena Ann
dc.contributor.authorRoman, Nicolette Vanessa
dc.contributor.authorCarlson, Shantay
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-05T11:45:39Z
dc.date.available2021-01-05T11:45:39Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractTheoretically, increasing family resilience, may contribute to an increase the resilience of communities. However families in South Africa experience challenges to their resilience, often owing to a variety of historic, socio-economic, and political factors. Research and intervention planning that attempts to ameliorate the effects these factors, especially upon families who live within disenfranchised communities, should begin with a consideration of the relationships between researcher and community stakeholders. The aim of this paper is to discuss lessons learned during the process of intervention development in which the whole community (should they choose to) can participate. The Family Resilience Strengthening Programme is an intervention that was developed with the aim of strengthening family resilience processes using a participatory action research approach (PAR). Participants of this project were from a small, rural community from the West Coast of South Africa. We argue that PAR can be used to foster family resilience and, in so doing, can mobilise communities and their resources to increase community resilience. Key lessons learned during this project is discussed and addresses aspects important in community engagement such as the quality of communication and a unifying of different stakeholder community groups. Moreover, we encourage researchers and practitioners engage with the value that communities contribute to research and intervention planning, and the need to maintain, and further develop, those relationships both throughout and after the research processen_US
dc.identifier.citationIsaacs, S. A. et al. (2020). Fostering family resilience: A community participatory action research perspective. Child Care in Practice ,26(4), 358-372en_US
dc.identifier.issn1357-5279
dc.identifier.uri10.1080/13575279.2020.1801578
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/5558
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.subjectCommunity resilienceen_US
dc.subjectFamily resilienceen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.subjectCommunity engagementen_US
dc.titleFostering family resilience: A community participatory action research perspectiveen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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