Risk and resilience in family well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic.

By H. Prime, Mark Wade, Dillon Browne. American Psychologist, 2020

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The COVID-19 pandemic poses an acute threat to the well-being of children and families due to challenges related to social disruption such as financial insecurity, caregiving burden, and confinement-related stress (e.g., crowding, changes to structure, and routine). The consequences of these difficulties are likely to be longstanding, in part because of the ways in which contextual risk permeates the structures and processes of family systems. The current article draws from pertinent literature across topic areas of acute crises and long-term, cumulative risk to illustrate the multitude of ways in which the well-being of children and families may be at risk during COVID-19. The presented conceptual framework is based on systemic models of human development and family functioning and links social disruption due to COVID-19 to child adjustment through a cascading process involving caregiver well-being and family processes (i.e., organization, communication, and beliefs). An illustration of the centrality of family processes in buffering against risk in the context of COVID-19, as well as promoting resilience through shared family beliefs and close relationships, is provided. Finally, clinical and research implications are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Child Development During the COVID‐19 Pandemic Through a Life Course Theory Lens (2020, background): “Even a single supportive relationship in or beyond the immediate family can buffer the effects of stress on children’s functioning (Prime et al., 2020).”
• Stress and parenting during the global COVID-19 pandemic (2020, positive): “Also, providing culturally responsive whole-family programs and services that benefit children and parents as well as their extended family may offer additional support, particularly for Latinx families and families impacted by greater financial strain (Prime et al., 2020).”
• How is COVID-19 pandemic impacting mental health of children and adolescents? (2020, background): “Moreover, the online solution was considered efficient during the pandemic as an emergency matter [21,22,50,54].”
• COVID-19 and Student Well-Being: Stress and Mental Health during Return-to-School (2020, background): “Perhaps the best way to consider the student-in-context is described by Prime and colleagues (Prime et al., 2020), wherein the adolescent is situated within processes of both risk and resilience.”
• Parents’ Views on Young Children’s Distance Learning and Screen Time During COVID-19 Class Suspension in Hong Kong (2020, positive): “…the content in the media (instructive mediation), and consuming media with children (coviewing), were found to increase the benefits of media use and lower the potential risks associated with media use among children (An & Lee, 2010; Collier et al., 2016; Ruh Linder & Werner, 2012; Wright, 2017).”
• Changes in employment and relationship satisfaction in times of the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from the German family Panel (2020, background): “Addressing this issue seems important to grasp more comprehensively the non-monetary costs of the COVID-19 pandemic both in the shortterm and in the longer-term (reflected in, for example, expected decreases in union stability; see Prasso 2020; Prime et al. 2020).”