HESC 3443 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Stressor, Natural Disaster, Bounded Set

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Distress: unhealthy feelings or reaction anxiety or concern. We want to be in the middle of these two. Low stress doesn"t really allow you to get motivated enough. Family stress: pressure or tension on the status quo; disturbance of the family"s steady state. Stress theory: various disciplines have examined individual stress related to. Life events and their connection to illness. Social systems perspective: families are social systems, living organisms with symbolic and real structures, boundaries, maintain steady state, contains subsystems (individuals, dyads) Abc-x model: event or situation (a, resources (b) We are going to accept or deny the event: degree of stress (high, low, crisis) (x) Crisis: make major shift, change will have to occur. Dimensions/types of family stressors: internal and external. Internal- events that begin from someone inside the family. External- events that begin from someone or something outside the family. Natural disaster, terrorism, lay offs, inflation: pervasiveness vs. boundedness. Pervasiveness- events that affect the entire family system.

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