Cultivating Systemic Resilience in Therapy

Christie Eppler, PhD, LMFT is a program director and professor of Seattle University’s Master of Arts in Couples and Family Therapy. She is an American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) Approved Supervisor. The focus of her clinical practice, teaching, and research is systemic resilience, justice, and narrative therapy.

1. Introduction 2. Empowering Communities Through Systemic Resilience: A Fusion of Liberation Psychology and Adaptive Coping Strategies 3. Intersections of Systemic Resilience and Spirituality in First Nation Narratives 4. Approaching Resilience Through Contextual and Systemic Frameworks 5. Biopsychosocial–Spiritual Resilience Interview: Understanding and Promoting Well-Being in Patients Living With Medical Conditions 6. A Systemic and Whole-Person Framework for Supporting Physician Resilience and Well-Being 7. Systemic Resilience and Abolition: Developing Individual and Communal Capacities to Respond to Harm and Violence 8. Resilience as a Secure Attachment Pattern 9. Cultivating Systemic Resilience of Black Adolescents With Disordered Eating: Targeting Belief Systems as a Mechanism for Change 10. Fostering Systemic Resilience in Foster and Kinship Care 11. Grief and Resilience After the Death of a Dog 12. Beyond Pathology: The Role of Diagnosis in Resilience 13. Beyond Self-Care: Intentional Practices of Resilient Therapists 14. A Personal Reflection on Promoting Resilience in the Systemic Treatment of Addiction 15. CREATE Model of Culturally Attuned, Resilience-Based Supervision