Chapter 1. Queer and Trans Resilience: Moving from Affirmation to Liberation in Our Collective Healing -- Chapter 2. Families of Transgender and Gender Expansive Persons: Support, Acceptance, Resilience, and Advocacy -- Chapter 3. Building a Family: An Exploration of Queer Resilience Through the Formation of Family -- Chapter 4. Latinx LGBTQ People and Their Families: The Role of Latinx Cultural Values, Beliefs, and Traditions -- Chapter 5. Promoting Resilience and Reclaiming Black Girl Voice: I'm That Girl -- Chapter 6. American Indian Identities and the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 (ICWA) and Cultural Resilience Theory -- Chapter 7. The Legacy of Resilience Embedded in African American Homeschooling -- Chapter 8. Black Identity and Resilience as the Framework for Black Mental Health Research and Practice -- Chapter 9. Understanding African American Family Resilience in the Context of Racial Trauma.

This book examines strengths-based approaches to understanding and celebrating diverse populations. It centers on understanding the ways in which minoritized group identities and membership in such communities can serve as sources of strength. The volume explores the varied dimensions of minoritized identities and challenges traditional concepts of what it means to be resilient. It presents research-based and innovative strategies to understand more thoroughly the role of resilience and strengths in diverse populations and families. The book addresses the need to consider affirmative, liberation, and strengths-based models of resilience. Key areas of coverage include: Families of transgender and gender diverse people. The role of chosen family in LGBTQ communities. Latinx LGBTQ families. The Indian Child Welfare Act. Celebration of Black girl voices. Homeschooling as a resilience factor for Black families. Black identity andresilience related to mental health. Black resilience in families. Identity as Resilience in Minoritized Communities is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians and related professionals in developmental psychology, family studies, clinical child and school psychology, cultural psychology, social work, and public health as well as education policy and politics, behavioral health, psychiatry, and all related disciplines.