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Families are influential for cultivating resilience in response to hardship or adversity. At the individual level, families provide a foundation for socializing children and arming them with the skills necessary to cope with stressors and recover from unexpected setbacks. In particular, parent-child communication is important for modeling appropriate responses to stressful circumstances and helping children develop their own effective strategies for coping with distress (eg Winslow, Sandler, & Wolchik, 2005). At a broader level, the entire family system can respond to trauma or crisis in ways that either reinforce or unravel the ties that bind it together. From a family systems perspective, family resilience refers to the processes that families enact to facilitate adaptation and adjustment in the face of significant adversity or crisis (Patterson, 2002). When faced with challenges, such as divorce, severe illness, economic hardship …