NF00-442 Creating a Strong Family: Positive Communication: Smoothing Out the Bumps in Family Life

This NebFact explores the role of open, clear communication in developing strong families

NF01-485 Creating a Strong Family: Listening and Speaking from the Heart

For 45 minutes the woman discussed her husband\u27s distress and her own feelings of inadequacy as she struggled in vain to find ways to help him. I listened closely and suggested she contact a good counselor in her hometown - one familiar with alcohol use - to work with both of them. The conversation wouldn\u27t have been particularly remarkable, except that she and I had just met for the first time on a brief airplane flight. I sat down next to her, said How\u27s life? and she told me. In great detail

NF01-485 Creating a Strong Family: Listening and Speaking from the Heart

For 45 minutes the woman discussed her husband\u27s distress and her own feelings of inadequacy as she struggled in vain to find ways to help him. I listened closely and suggested she contact a good counselor in her hometown - one familiar with alcohol use - to work with both of them. The conversation wouldn\u27t have been particularly remarkable, except that she and I had just met for the first time on a brief airplane flight. I sat down next to her, said How\u27s life? and she told me. In great detail

NF01-478 Creating a Strong Family: I Should Have Spent More Time At Work

The key for family members is finding a level of commitment and emotional bond that works for everyone. Each of us has different needs in this regard, and often, some compromises need to be worked out. For what it\u27s worth, I vote for a commitment to family over work and making this commitment long before it\u27s too late. An ounce of prevention is worth a ton of cure when it comes to family dynamics

NF00-445 Creating a Strong Family: Successful Management of Stress and Crisis

Research with strong families shows how they approach difficult times and overcome them

NF00-444 Creating a Strong Family: Spiritual Well-Being: Sacred Connections

This NebFact discusses how a sense of spiritual well-being is an important element for many strong families

NF01-489 Creating a Strong Family: The Family That Eats Happily Together Stays Together

When people in strong families talk about what makes them strong, doing enjoyable things together is mentioned time and time again. The list of enjoyable activities is a lengthy one, of course, and each family is unique in this regard

AUSTRALIAN FAMILIES, CULTURES, AND ENVIRONMENTS: An Annotated Bibliography

This annotated bibliography of books and other cultural resources is offered to readers interested in developing a broad and inclusive understanding of Australian families and the cultural, social, political, economic, historical, and geographic environment in which they live. The contributions of Indigenous Australians, which date back 40,000 to 60,000 years are especially emphasized here

Spiritual well-being and its relationship to resilience in young people: A mixed methods case study

Questions have arisen recently about the role of spiritual well-being in strengthening resilience of youth. To explore this association, this case study focused on the relationships and connectedness of young people who attend one religious organization as a means of enhancing their spiritual well-being. In line with the purposes of an instrumental case study, different sources of data (quantitative and qualitative) were collected on the phenomenon of interest—spiritual well-being. A theoretical purposive sample of 65 people participated in the study. A mixed methods research approach guided this case study, which incorporated both single- and multicase study techniques. Through an abductive analysis process, spiritual well-being and resilience were shown to be interrelated and ecologically bound. This mixed methods case study presents one possible explanation for the often observed yet poorly understood relationship between spiritual well-being and positive youth outcomes, such as resilience

We Welcome the New Immigrants

From the very beginning of this project we have focused on taking a balanced approach to identifying the strengths and challenges of new immigrants in the Great Plains. Discussions of change in our world invariably focus on problems, and only occasionally on the strengths. We set out to look at new immigrants from a different perspective, in our view, a more realistic perspective: seeing the inherent strengths they possess as newcomers to our region and the gifts they bring, and examining the cultural assets the newcomers and the longer-term residents all can rely upon in working together to meet the inevitable challenges that an influx of new people brings to our world. What, then, have we learned about the new immigrants and the new immigrant families to the Heartland? What challenges do they face in their journey to create a safe, prosperous, and harmonious new home for themselves and their loved ones and friends? What strengths do they possess to accomplish these goals? What gifts do they bring to our region? Let\u27s go back to the original questions posed by the authors, and discuss what we have learned