FCFC 250 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Elder Abuse, Child Abuse, Ketamine

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Crisis: a critical change of events that disrupts the functioning of a person"s life. Family stress: tensions that test a family"s emotional resources. General adaptation syndrome (gas): the predictable pattern one"s body follows when coping with stress, which includes the alarm reaction, resistance and exhaustion. Social readjustment rating scale: a scale of major life events over the year, each of which is assigned a point value. The higher the score, the greater the chance of having a serious medical event. Patterns of crisis: the event that causes the crisis, the period of disorganization that follows, the reorganization that takes place afterward. Abc-x model: a model designed to help us understand the variation in the ways that families cope with stress and crisis. Double abc-x model: a model designed to help us understand the effects of the accumulation of stress and crises and how families adapt to them. The conflict tactics scale (cts): non-aggressive responses, psychologically aggressive responses, physically aggressive responses.

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