HDFS 1070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: No Surprises, Parenting Styles
16 Oct 2016
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Family system stress: pressure placed on family to adjust rules, traditions, systems, system being stressed by adjustment of execution of tasks, horizontal stressors. Over time during lifetime of individual: vertical stressors. Coping influenced by vertical stressors in family system. Emotional legacy, of how people interacted, of how people get along, etc. Coping resources: when dealing with stress, most important resources: Ability to turn to others, experts for information (seeking) and support. Travel along with convoy that sticks with you. Influences how individual goes through life with ordinary difficulties that need to be managed. How does this discussion of system stress and. Pregnancy and parenthood can be thought of as examples of horizontal stressors how these are managed is some function of the coping resources available within the family as these interact with the vertical stressors present. Identity changed due to new stage in life.
