MFT-8102 V3

Bradley, J. M., & Hojjat, M. (2017). A model of resilience and marital satisfaction. Journal of Social Psychology, 157, 588-601.
Study addressed several key factors associated with marital quality, including spousal attachment, satisfaction and resilience. The researchers indicated the results supported the value of resilience for marital satisfaction.

Mundy, B., & Wofsy, M. (2017). Diverse couple and family forms and universal family processes. In S. Kelly (Ed.), Diversity in couple and family therapy: Ethnicities, sexualities, and socioeconomics (pp. 337-359). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.
This chapter reviews some of today’s diverse families and then examines the notion of universal family processes. What do you think about the notion that regardless of family structure, key family processes and dynamics cut across healthy families?

Williamson, D. L., Carchuk, M., Kushner, K. E., Skrypnek, B. J., & Pitre, N. (2018). Families that do well: Lay conceptualizations of well-functioning, healthy, strong, and good families. Family Relations, 67, 467-482.
These researchers surveyed a small sample of 34 adults from the general public about the nature of healthy families and found general correspondence with scholarly views on the same.

Bradley, R. H. (2019). Home life and health among Native American, African American, and Latino adolescents. Health Psychology, 38, 738-747.
Although this article primarily addresses physical health, you will also find clear factors related to healthy family relational functioning.

Lerner, S. (Producer). (1983). Constructing the multigenerational family genogram: Exploring a problem in context [Video file]. Stephen Lerner. Retrieved from Academic Video Online: Premium database.