HDFS 3319 Chapter 1: Price Chapter 1
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Families are viewed as living organisms with both symbolic and real structures. Families are products of both subsystems and suprasystems. Substantive content: using this dimension, one can determine whether the substantive nature of the crisis is primarily in the political, economic, moral, social, religious, health, or sexual domains or any combination, ambiguous loss. Individual family members l: the family system, the community that can be used to meet the demands of the stressor event, social support, provides, emotional support, esteem support, network support, definitions of the event/perceptions, redefining. Fatalistic orientation: more likely to believe that everything is determined by higher power, can be a barrier to coping, encourages passivity, culture. Impacts values and value orientations: minotiry and immigrant status influence perceptions, coping strategies, and resources. Stress and crisis: crisis, disturbance in equilibrium that is so overwhelming, pressure is so severe, change that is so acute that the family system is blocked, immobilized, and incapacitated, coping g.