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Background: Family resilience is built to reduce the incidence of trauma, depression, loss and crisis experienced by families and family members. Apart from the importance of the concept of family resilience, there has not been an adequate focus on all aspects of this concept in the discipline of nursing. Objective: This paper reports an analysis of the concept of family resilience. Methods: This concept analysis approach applies the theories of Walker and Avant. Results: Family resilience attributes include (1) ability to absorb (2) adaptability (3) ability to change (4) welfare promotion (5) achieve function (6) empower resources in the family. These attributes are influenced by antecedents of crises, experiences, disasters, damage, loss of danger exposure, support and communication. In addition, family resilience has a significant impact on positive beliefs, health protection, family planning and resilience programs, building coping and adherence capacity of family members. Conclusion: building family resilience in preventing post-disaster psychosocial problems is the main goal of disaster management on a psychosocial perspective. This analysis provides a new perspective for nurses by helping them understand all components in the concept of family resilience.