The resiliency Model of Family Stress, Adjustment, and Adaptation by McCubbin and McCubbin is based on Hill's Family Stress Theory. It provides a method to assess family functioning and the coping techniques utilized to facilitate adjustment and adaptation to a medically stressful hospitalizations and diagnosis. It provides a method to assess stressors, family coping, and how the crisis has disrupted the family functioning. The main emphasis of this model is on resiliency of families and their ability to recover from adverse events. It defines the family strengths and the family's response to health stressors. It assists the health care team in defining areas that interventions may be developed to better assist families in achieving positive adjustment to illness. This theory is utilized to assess a family that has just given birth to an infant diagnosed with short gut syndrome, which has a poor long-term prognosis and is being discharged home with hospice involvement and palliative care. This stressful event impacts the whole family and their ability to find positive avenues to cope is paramount to how they adjust and adapt to this event.