FSW 261 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Natural Disaster, Gun Violence, Foster Care
11 Dec 2018
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What is family stress: state of tension in which a family demands tax their capabilities, can be good or bad (good stress = new baby, calls for family adjustment. What is a family crisis: imbalance between pressure on family and their ability to cope with pressure, necessarily involves change, can also be good or bad. Addition of a family member: birth, adoption, marriage, re-marriage, or cohabitation. Loss of a family member: permanently (death) or temporary (hospitalization, deployment) Ambiguous loss: when loss of a family member is uncertain, physical presence and psychological absence, dementia, addiction, physical absence and psychological presence, lost child, divorce, etc. Sudden, unexpected change: job/income loss, natural disaster, break up. Caring for dependent, ill, or disabled family members. Demoralizing events: signal some loss of family morale shameful/embarrassing event, loss of work especially being fired, alcohol or drug addicted family member, incarceration. When a family experiences a series of relatively small stressors.
