Using the ABCX Model to Understand the Intersections of Culture, Disability, Adaptation, and Resilience Among Immigrant Families

ABSTRACT In this qualitative study using reflexive thematic analysis, we interviewed 13 racial or ethnic minority immigrant caregivers raising a child with a developmental disability to understand how cultural values and acculturation shaped coping and family resilience. Themes were organized using Walsh's family resilience framework and clarified with post‐crisis double ABCX process tags. Our analysis revealed three themes: (a) Culturally grounded meaning making, describing how caregivers navigated intra‐community stigma and internalized marginalization through faith‐based coping, caregiving commitment, heritage transmission, unity, and love and acceptance; (b) informal support ecologies, through which caregivers built trust and commonality through distributed caregiving and community‐based supports; and (c) everyday self‐regulation or co‐regulation and routines, attending to how predictable routines, close bonds, and sibling involvement stabilized daily stress. We discuss implications for culturally responsive counseling practice, including assessment of belief systems, stigma‐related silence, support mapping, and routine‐based co‐regulation strategies.