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

The central issues of domestic violence are _____.

Research puts forth the notion that it doesn't matter what event causes the stress; what matters instead is the meaning we attach to the stressor.

Approximately 1 in 4 American women have been physically or sexually abused by an intimate partner at some point during their lives.

A ________ is typically an event that is forever life-altering, and that requires significant social and psychological adjustment.

Professor of psychological studies and victim advocate for battered women, Lenore Walker pioneered research that resulted in her Cycle of Violence model. What did she find? Please explain her model in detail.

The text offers two points of advice for young families to relieve financial stress. What are they?

Family stress theorist Pauline Boss (2003) notes that stress is oftentimes the result of family members being added or subtracted from the family system, and that the stress will remain until the structure is reorganized. This is an example of _____.

Meaning-based coping strategies _____.

Demoralization family crisis describes crises that tend to bring disgrace to a family system.

________ occurs when families attempt to reframe the life event or stressor in ways that are more favorable.

Women who have high self-esteem are more likely to be abused.

Tonight in this country alone, nearly ________ children will have witnessed the violence taking place in their homes.

________ family crisis depicts the separation or isolation of an individual from the rest of his or her family.

Statistically, child abuse comes mostly at the hands of _____.

White nuclear families are more immune to stress and transition than Latino stepfamilies.

What is the purpose of Moos and Schaefer's framework of family adaptive tasks?

What constitutes sexual violence?

The ________ identified associations between life events and life transitions, and the impact of these events and transitions on individual physical health and well-being.

In Hill's model, the X factor is the end product of the initiating event, the family's resources to cope with it, and the meaning they assign to it.

Stressors are considered to be either ________, meaning that they last a relatively short period of time, or ________ , indicating that the stressor is usually longer in duration.