Family Stress and Crisis - Study Guide | FAD 2230, Study notes of Introduction to Sociology

Download Family Stress and Crisis - Study Guide | FAD 2230 and more Study notes Introduction to Sociology in PDF only on Docsity! FAD2230 March 12, 2012 Chapter 11 Family Stress and Crisis: Violence Among Intimates  Nature of Stress and Crisis o Types  Crisis: A critical change of events that disrupts the functioning of a person’s life  Can be big or small  May be unexpected or an accumulation of stress  Family Stress: Tension that tests a family’s emotional resources  Normative: Things that happen to the majority of people (children)  Non-normative: Not expected (Death of a child)  Acute Stress: Short-term stress  Chronic Stress: Long-term stress  Really tests family resources and can lead to crisis  Ten Most Common Stressors  1. Finances and budgeting (normative)  2. Children’s behavior  3. Insufficient time as a couple  4. Lack of shared responsibility o Responses to Stress  General Adaptation Syndrome(GAS): The predictable pattern one’s body follows when coming with stress, which includes the alarm reaction, resistance, and exhaustion  Ex: Saving a child from drowning o Social Readjustment Rating Scale: A scale of major like events over the past year, each of which is assigned a point value  Ex: Spouse death is most stressful (depends on age too) o Patterns of Family Crisis  3 distinct phases  1. The EVENT that causes the crisis  2. The period of DISORGANIZATION that follows  3. The REORGANIZATION that takes place afterwards  Example: is Hurricane Katrina  1. Hurricane  2. No communication, levies broke so you don’t know what to do next  3. Figure out place to live, think about how to get business going again, try to get back to normal life  5 Patterns of the Effects of Stress/ Crises on Family Functioning o Coping or Not: ABC- X Models  ABC-X Model: A model designed by Ruben Hill to help understand the variation in the ways that families cope with stress and crisis