SOC 322 Chapter 15
Soc 322 final chapter 15
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- fictive kin
- Family-like relationships that are not based on blood or marriage but on close friendship ties.
- boundary ambiguity
- When applied to a family, a situation in which family members do not know who is in and who is out of the family.
- pile-up
- Concept from family stress and crisis theory that refers to the accumulation of family stressors and prior hardships.
- extramarital sex
- Sex by a married person with a person who is not her or his spouse.
- Demoralizing events
- TYPE OF STRESSOR job loss, unwanted pregnancy, poverty, homelessness, having one's child in foster care, mental illness, criminal prosecution.
- family crisis
- A situation (resulting from a stressor) in which the family's usual behavior patterns are ineffective and new ones are called for.
- stressor
- A precipitating event that causes a crisis—it is often a situation for which the family has had little or no preparation. See also ABCX model, double ABC-X model.
- Ambiguous loss
- TYPE OF STRESSOR physically absent but still part of the family (divorce, missing in action). OR physically present, but emotionally absent (drug /alcohol addiction).
- period of family disorganization
- That period in a family crisis, after the stressor event has occurred, during which family morale and organization slump and habitual roles and routines become nebulous.
- nadir of family disorganization
- Low point of family disorganization when a family is going through a family crisis.
- family boundary changes
- A situation in which family boundaries have to shift to include new people or to adapt to the loss of a family member.
- resiliency model of family stress, adjustment, and adaptation
- Complex model of family stress and adaptation developed from the double ABC-X model.
- double ABC-X model
- A variation of the ABC-X model of family crises that emphasizes the impact of unresolved prior crises. In this model, A becomes Aa and represents not only the current stressor event but also family pileup, or residual strains from prior crises.
- family gamble
- A family's decision to "give up on" a missing family member and begin to grieve their loss.
- resilient families
- Families that emphasize mutual acceptance, respect, and shared values; members rely on one another for emotional support.
- stressor overload
- A situation in which an unrelenting series of small crises adds up to a major crisis.
- family transitions
- Expected or predictable changes in the course of family life that often precipitate family stress and can result in a family crisis.
- family stress
- State of tension that arises when demands tax a family's resources.
- ABC-X model
- A model of family crisis in which A (the stressor event) interacts with B (the family's resources for meeting a crisis) and with C (the definition the family formulates of the event) to produce X (the crisis).
- vulnerable families
- Families that have a low sense of common purpose, feel in little control over what happens to them, and tend to cope with problems by showing diminished respect and/or understanding for each other.