SOC-12 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Substance Abuse, Chronic Condition, Silent Treatment
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Can occur from a variety of different factors: everyday life and tasks, life transitions and events, chronic illness, sudden accident, disability, substance abuse, violence. How family handles problem will depend on: their outlook, their resources, individual factors, normative life stresses. Coping and outlook can change over time. Longitudinal model: time was added, pile-up, multiple crisis happening at one time. E. g. , birth of child at the same time as a major housing relocation. Stress and conflict in family life doesn"t mean that abuse must take place: proper handling of stress and crisis can actually strengthen a family and help it grow in intimacy, important dimensions of family functioning identified. Cohesion: amount of physical and emotional connectedness that a family experiences. Romantic partners: success based on how we perceive and handle conflict. Workplace/outside influences: can promote conflict management, can also be school. Conflict doesn"t exist and don"t recognize it. Don"t tell anyone else if there is a struggle.
