Exam 15: Family Change: Stress, Crisis, and Transition

This term refers to the imbalance between the demands an event places on a family, and that family's ability-or inability-to meet them.

Each year there are over _______ incidents of intimate partner violence among gays, lesbians, bisexual, and transgender people.

What is "cognitive avoidance"? What is another name for it?

The family is a system of interrelated components.

Who put forth the ABC-X Family Crisis Model?

During this stage of stress response, the body continues to battle the stressor and remains in a continued state of elevated arousal. The increased levels of the stress steroids eventually begin to harm the individual's organs; because the immune system has remained on "high alert" for a prolonged period of time, it begins to weaken, placing the individual at a greater risk of becoming ill.

Resigned acceptance refers to a family's ability to function in a healthy fashion during times of change, stress, adversity, crisis, and transition.

Recall four basic assumptions of family systems theory and apply them each to the family crisis context.

________ family crisis is when turbulence occurs due to the addition of a family member.

Emotional regulation strategies _____.

How does a family belief system affect a family's resilience in times of stress?

Who developed the three-stage General Adaptation syndrome to describe the physiological responses to eustress and distress?

Name and describe Hans Selye's three-stage instrument to describe the physiological responses to eustress and distress.

"He isn't cheating on me-I'm sure there is a reasonable explanation as to why they were together." This may be an example of cognitive avoidance.

Name the major types of family coping skills that families tend to use in times of change and crisis.

Briefly describe Hill's ABC-X Family Crisis Model and provide an example.

Why did McCubbin and Patterson develop the "Double ABC-X Model"?

________ refers to the perception that we are, to a large extent, in control of our destiny.

Anything that elicits a physiological and/or psychological response to any stimuli is termed a _____.

Also known as positive, or productive, stress.