In this article, we theorize a new conceptual framework of family strengths and resilience emerging at the intersection of indigenous and Western approaches to family systems. Our work acknowledges that there are universal tenets pertaining to family and family relations within many cultural paradigms, yet few family theories have included or integrated an indigenous lens. Here, we draw on ecosystemic and “wheel of life” worldviews to guide our work, recognizing that much of Western family science and indigenous ways of knowing view family life as relational, interdependent, and connected to larger ecosystems. To explicate our integrated framework of family strengths and resilience, we delineate five domains: family as a living organism, family connectedness to nature, family centering processes, family rituals, and transgenerational family relations. Last, we discuss implications of our conceptual framework for research and clinical family practice.

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家庭实力和复原力的综合模型：土著和西方范式交叉点的理论

在本文中，我们理论化了一个新的概念，即在土著和西方家庭系统方法的交叉点出现的家庭实力和韧性的概念框架。我们的工作承认，在许多文化范式中都有关于家庭和家庭关系的普遍原则，但是很少有家庭理论包含或整合了土著视角。在这里，我们认识到许多西方家庭科学和土著的认识方式将家庭生活视为相互关联，相互依存并与更大的生态系统联系在一起，因此我们借鉴了生态系统和“生命之轮”的世界观来指导我们的工作。为了说明我们的家庭实力和应变能力综合框架，我们描述了五个领域：家庭作为活生物体，家庭与自然的联系，家庭居中过程，家庭仪式，和跨代家庭关系。最后，我们讨论了研究和临床家庭实践的概念框架的含义。