In 1958, Reuben Hill came up with a seminal family stress and coping model that would later be improved by McCubbin and Patterson in 1983 who came up with the ABCX model of family adjustment and adaptation. It was from these two foundations that McCubbin and McCubbin (1991) came up with the resiliency model theory for family adaptation and adjustment. This theory has been found useful in therapeutic approaches to families with complex chronic conditions. Consequently, this paper intends to identify the model as developed by McCubbin and McCubbin and show how it can be applied on the article “The search for Social Safety and Comfort in Families Raising Children with Complex Chronic Conditions” (Spina, Ziviani & Nixon, 2005, p. 45). The resiliency model has as its main argument the supposition that “families manage stressful situations over time…emphasizes the family’s ability to recover from stressful events and crises by drawing on patterns of functioning, strengths, capabilities, appraisal processes, coping, resources and problem solving to facilitate adaptation” (Bomar, 2004, p. 379). In his examination of the theory of resiliency, Bomar further adopts the definition of family resiliency as the unique characteristics of a family as a unit that allow it to react in response to a given stressor. By being able to respond positively, the family can be assured of positive functioning and thus the well-being of its members. McCubbin & McCubbin (1991) argue that there are two phases involved in a family’s response to life’s challenges and events. The first phase is referred to as the adjustment phase . These are changes that a family will have to create in their normal daily routines and processes and the changes are considered minor and easy. These changes include moving to a new neighborhood, changing jobs or minor illnesses within the family. The second phase is referred to as the adaptation phase. In this phase, the expected adjustments are usually difficult to make and hence any slight adjustment leads to a crisis within the family unit. Before the development of a crisis, several factors contribute greatly. Based on the resilience model, three factors are clearly brought forth as factors leading to the development. In addition, the family response to the developing crisis is also determined by certain given factors. The first factor that led to the development of the crisis in the families in the article was the presence of a stressor. In this case, the stressor was children with complex chronic conditions. Medically fragile and developmentally delayed kids in all these families were the main stressors and therefore acted as the main reasons why the families had to adjust and accommodate them in their daily lives. As mentioned in the model, the adjustment phase includes changes that are easy to adapt hence leading to little or no crisis at all. However, in this case, the complex chronic conditions were stressors that needed the families to go beyond the adjustment phase through to the second phase of adaptation. They had to make permanent changes with which poor response could lead to maladjustment and hence crises (Bomar, 2004). Considering the social consequences related to the presence of these medical complications, other factors became inevitable in the development a