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

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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.