HDFS 3920 Exam 1

Response to stimulus

Changing life events

State of alienation

Anxiety and coping

positive and negative

“Systems Theory”, system is more than the sum of its parts, collective response.

Family is part of a larger social system, dependent on ecosystem.

External environment in which families exist.

Developed by Reuben Hill, contributed to family strengths/resilience.

Stressor event

Everyday events.

Sudden, unpredictable events.

Level of stress determined by several events, “stress pileup”.

Person is physically absent and psychologically present or psychologically absent and physically present.

Resources, moderates stress. Research suggests that this is the most important component of a family’s reaction to a stressor event.

Internal strength of the family to cope.

Familial bond.

Ability to change.

Definition given to event.

Belief that one’s own abilities can control adverse situations.

Belief that everything happens according to a plan and cannot be controlled by one’s own will.

Take action to confront an issue.

Thoughtfulness, harmony, and interdependence.

Overwhelming disturbance of equilibrium, dichotomous.

Justified belief (positivist, interpretive, and critical).

Idea scholars believe to be true.

Terms that explain a theory’s framework (based on assumptions).

Operationalized as a hypothesis and can be tested through research (relevant, practical, logical, explicit, systematic, contextual).

Anticipated or unanticipated daily life occurrence that creates common annoyances.

Semi-structured phone interview with open-ended questions for about a week.

Acknowledges adaptive processes and enduring vulnerabilities families utilize to cope.

Adaptive strategy to face hassles that is influenced by vulnerabilities, strengths, nature, and communication of the family.

Dependent upon personality traits, stable/resilient traits are desirable.

Ways in which families associate or disassociate with a stressor, the overall perception towards an event (direct action, intrapsychic, controlling emotions).

A process, and not an outcome. Can also lead to further stress if it becomes too complex.

Long-term, the degree to which the family system alters its internal functions or external reality to achieve a system-environment fit.

Short-term adaptation.

Stress pileup:

Unresolved stressor

Additional stressor

Results of change

Inherent or acquired resources.

Perception of initial and current stressor.

Original response and consequent adjustments to crisis.

The ability to stretch (like elastic) or flex (like a suspension bridge) in response to the pressures and strains of life.

Interaction of family risk with family protection and vulnerability in such ways that result in short-term and long-term family system adaptation.

How proximal processes, personal characteristics, context, and time influence stress.

Attentiveness to the present that has a rich cultural history connected to Eastern and Western religion/philosophies despite being somewhat commercialized.

8-week program that acknowledges physical and emotional pain in order to tackle health challenges (most empirically supported).

6-12 month intensive skill-based program that utilizes mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, emotional regulation, and distress tolerance. Tackles bipolar disorder, trauma, or emotional dysregulation.

Impacts the experience of time and shifts emotional appraisal of pain by creating new perspectives.

Promoting parenthood

A change or disturbance in the steady state of the family system which can have consequences that range along a continuum from very positive to very negative.

Aversive emotional reaction by an individual parent to the demands of childcare and child socialization. Reciprocal and multidirectional. Tends to spill over systemically into parent–child relationships

Provides some buffer to defer or bear the negative effects of stress.

The vulnerabilities or weaknesses of parents or children as well as their relationship. Exposes the family to stress.

Severe, persistent mental or physical developmental impairments.

Significant limitations both in intellectual functioning and adaptive behaviors.

The experience of not knowing who is in or out of the family or relationship.

Boss; elements of the internal and external context surrounding the event.

A “matter of choice”, and more varied. Dimensions include availability, engagement, and responsibility.

Emotional responses to the idea of performing a behavior.

Beliefs about the potential outcomes of the behavior.

Influenced by others’ expectations

Influenced by others’ actions

Degree of confidence in one’s ability to perform a behavior and whether performance can occur in the face of constraints.

The joining of multiple entities; social constructs, identities, relationships, and all other circumstances intersect and influence one another. These constructs are not mutually exclusive, but coexist.