HDFS 3319 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Structural Violence, Major Trauma, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

• School: UConn
• Department: Human Development and Family Studies
• Course: HDFS 3319
• Professor: Carolyn Franzen

Document Summary

Hdfs 3319: risk and resiliency in individuals and families. Fundamentally associated with family and individual schema, ethos, worldview, values that act as a core of resilience. Support of those close to us, who help us through and share values. Family demand: range of stressors encountered by families including discrete events, ongoing strains, and daily hassles. Family capabilities: tangible and psychosocial resources that the family possesses and has access to, as well as coping behaviors, three levels of family meanings. Family"s appraisal of current demands as compared to their capabilities and the extent to which they match up. Shared beliefs and how they see themselves as a unit. Family worldview: how family sees themselves in relationship to systems outside of the family, when demands persist in greatly exceeding capabilities, families experience crisis, three basic ways to achieve necessary adaptation, reducing demands.