This article presents theoretical reflections on the concepts of social support network and its potential impact as a mechanism of protection and promotion of resilience. The social support networks have been studied in different areas of knowledge and is referred to as one of the main sources of protection and resilience of individual, family and community. The text presents the theoretical contributions of psychology to build the concept of resilience, its relational elements and their connections to support networks with special emphasis on community resilience, and which has as its pillars: solidarity, collective self-esteem, cultural identity, humor and honesty social state, still little studied in Brazil.
Social network; Resilience; Community resilience