FRHD 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Unemployment Benefits, Maladaptation, Prenatal Diagnosis
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WHEN PROBS COME
• Social problem
o Exists when several people believe a condition is in fact a problem
o Who decides when a problem is a problem
▪ Public
• Opinions vary
o Spanking
▪ Spare the rod spoil the child
▪ Damage
o Homosexuality
▪ Sin, crime, mental illness
▪ Causes
• Psychological disorder
• Masturbation
▪ Advancement
• Trudeau
o Omnibus bill
▪ There’s o plae for the state
in the bedrooms of the
nation
• 2005
o same sex marriages = legal
• conflict
o groups have different perspectives
▪ Dominant group
• Successful
• Vested interests
o Want society as it is
o Concerned with cost of problems
▪ Ie child abuse
▪ Repeated medical treatment,
lifelong care
▪ Gatekeepers
• Problem identifier
• Connection to other people and services
• Examples
o Doctors
▪ Dangerous mental condition
= confinement
▪ Sick or injured enough =
hospital
o Polices, judges, jurors
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▪ Criminal
o Child welfare workers
▪ Children in danger enough =
remove from homes
o Groups may view different things as the problem
▪ Ie homosexuality
• Conservative/religious groups
o Bad or sick
• Gay rights activists
o Intolerance
• ABCX model
o Dealing with a new problem
▪ History
• Hill
o Observing families surviving the great depression
▪ Involves
• A
o Stressor
▪ Example
• Breadwinner loses job
• B
o Crisis meeting resources
▪ Within
• Individual
• Family
• Community
▪ Example
• Savings, employability skills, employment
insurance, family support
• C
o Perception of stressor
▪ Determine stressor impact
• Family assessment of
o Stressor magnitude
o Internal and external resource
▪ Use
▪ Availability
▪ Example
• Victims, opportunity, blame
• X
o Crisis
▪ Imbalance in
• Demands placed on family
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• Faily’s aility to eet these deads
▪ Familiar problem solving methods fail
• Loosen boundaries
o Tension
• Seek new solutions
o Functional
▪ Increase ability to solve new
problems
o Dysfunctional
▪ Temporarily reduce tension
▪ Create future problems
• Example
o Functional
▪ Stay at home spouse finds
job
▪ Social assistance
▪ Unemployed developing new
skills
o Dysfunctional
▪ Blaming husband/father
o Double ABCX model
▪ History
• Mccubbin and Patterson
o Observed families dealing with crises
▪ Crises evolved over time
▪ more than just precrisis factors
▪ Involves
• Pre crisis
o ABC
• Crisis
o X
• Post crisis
o Pileup of demands
▪ aA
• include
o initial stressor
o normative stress
o prior strain
o coping used
o ambiguity
o Adaptive resources
▪ bB
• include
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Document Summary
Ie child abuse: repeated medical treatment, lifelong care, gatekeepers, problem identifier, connection to other people and services, examples, doctors, dangerous mental condition. = confinement: sick or injured enough = hospital, polices, judges, jurors, criminal, child welfare workers, children in danger enough = remove from homes, groups may view different things as the problem. Ie homosexuality: conservative/religious groups, bad or sick, gay rights activists. Intolerance: abcx model, dealing with a new problem, history, hill, observing families surviving the great depression. Involves: a, b, stressor, example, breadwinner loses job, crisis meeting resources, within. Individual: family, community, example, savings, employability skills, employment insurance, family support, c, perception of stressor, determine stressor impact, family assessment of, stressor magnitude. Internal and external resource: use, availability, example, victims, opportunity, blame, x, crisis. Imbalance in: demands placed on family, fa(cid:373)ily"s a(cid:271)ility to (cid:373)eet these de(cid:373)a(cid:374)ds, familiar problem solving methods fail, loosen boundaries, tension, seek new solutions, functional.