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Title: Family Stress, Crises and Resilience


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Chapter 15
  • Family Stress, Crises and Resilience

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Chapter Outline
  • Theoretical Perspectives on Family Stress and
    Crisis
  • What Precipitates a Family Crisis?
  • The Course of a Family Crisis

3
Chapter Outline
  • Family Stress, Crisis, Adjustment and Adaptation
    A Theoretical Model
  • Meeting Crises Creatively
  • Crisis Disaster or Opportunity

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Definition of Crisis
  • Crisis involves change.
  • A crisis is a turning point with the potential
    for positive effects, negative effects, or both.
  • A crisis is a time of relative instability.

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Types of Stressors
  • Addition of a family member.
  • Loss of a family member.
  • Sudden change in income or social statues.
  • Ongoing family conflict.
  • Daily family hassles.

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Types of Stressors
  • Ambiguous loss
  • physically absent but still part of the family
    (divorce, missing in action).
  • physically present, but emotionally absent (drug
    /alcohol addiction).

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Types of Stressors
  • Caring for a dependent or disabled family member.
  • Demoralizing events - job loss, unwanted
    pregnancy, poverty, homelessness, having ones
    child in foster care, mental illness, criminal
    prosecution.

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Course of a Family Crisis
  1. The event that caused the crisis.
  2. Period of disorganization that follows.
  3. Reorganization or recovery phase after the family
    reaches a low point.

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Patterns of Family Adaptation to Crisis
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Divorce As a Family Adjustment to Crisis and As a
Crisis in Itself
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ABC-X Model of Family Crisis
  • A - stressor event
  • interacting with
  • B -familys ability to cope with a crisis
  • interacting with
  • C - familys appraisal of the stressor event
  • produces
  • X - the crisis.

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Factors in Defininga Stressful Event
  • The nature of the stressor.
  • The degree of hardship or the kind of problems
    the stressor creates.
  • The families previous successful experience in
    the event crises.
  • Childhood legacies of adult family members.

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Meeting Crisis Creatively
  • A positive outlook
  • Spiritual Values and Support Groups
  • Open, Supportive Communication
  • Adaptability
  • Informal Social Support
  • An Extended Family
  • Community Resources

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Quick Quiz
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  • 1. The text points out that a family members
    injury or illness, or a death in the family is a
    source of family
  • stress.
  • alienation.
  • disgruntlement.
  • panic.

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Answer a
  • The text points out that a family members injury
    or illness, or a death in the family is a source
    of family stress.

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  • 2. Which of the following is NOT one of the types
    of stressors examined in the text?
  • daily family hassles
  • demoralizing events
  • conflict over family roles
  • gradual change

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Answer d
  • Gradual change is NOT one of the types of
    stressors examined in the text.

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  • 3. In the ABC-X model of family crisis, the B
    represents
  • the familys ability to cope with a crisis, their
    crisis-meeting resources.
  • the familys appraisal of the stressor event.
  • the stressor event.
  • the crisis.

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Answer a
  • In the ABC-X model of family crisis, the B
    represents the familys ability to cope with a
    crisis, their crisis-meeting resources.

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  • 4. In the ABC-X model of family crisis, the C
    represents
  • the stressor event.
  • the crisis.
  • the familys ability to cope with a crisis, their
    crisis meeting resources.
  • the familys appraisal of the stressor event.

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Answer d
  • In the ABC-X model of family crisis, the C
    represents the familys appraisal of the stressor
    event.
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