FMST 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Maladaptation, Traumatic Brain Injury, Stressor
3 Nov 2016
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History: hill"s (cid:894)1949(cid:895) roller-coaster profile of adjustment to crisis. Basic assumptions: the abc-x model: a. Volitional (what we want to and work to make happen) How family accesses resources needed to handle event. Cog(cid:374)iti(cid:448)e appraisal of the situatio(cid:374) helps to (cid:373)ediate a fa(cid:373)ily"s psychological response to the stress. Arises once family can no longer maintain its usual balance following stressor event. Discrete (singular) life event producing change in the family system. Impact based on interpretation as positive or negative, non-normative or normative: normative event. Non-normative events are more likely to lead to crisis: crisis. Overwhelmed to point of incapacitation, no longer able to use existing resources. No levels of crisis (unlike stress), either in crisis or not in crisis: resources. Social support (think quantity, quality, provision) buffers risk, influencing adjustment: coping. Psychological and behavioral responses help reduce stress effects. Sample reading: ambiguous loss and the family grieving process: (cid:862)there, but (cid:374)ot there(cid:863, two types:
