Chapter 11

Question 1

stress

Answer 1

anything that leads to change

Question 2

Hill’s ABC-X Model

Answer 2

• relevant cross-culturally
• A: provoking event
• B: family’s resources/strengths at time of event
• C: meaning attached to event by the family
• X: crisis (viewed as normative rather than positive or negative)

Question 3

Double ABC-X Model

Answer 3

• longitudinal
• Time is introduced to capture the multiple concurrent stressors present in the family system and the stressors occurring sequentially across the lifetime (ie. The birth of a child that coincides with a housing relocation for work)

Question 4

Olson’s circumplex model

Answer 4

• relevant cross-culturally
• Proper handling of stress and crisis can strengthen a family and help its intimacy grow
• Model was built of 3 empirically identified important dimensions of family function: cohesion, flexibility, and communication
• although the outside is bad and the middle is good, it’s important to understand that at certain stages of life and crises, you will need to move to different stages of the diagram

Question 5

Cohesion

Answer 5

amount of family’s physical and emotional connectedness

Question 6

Flexibility

Answer 6

family’s level of comfort with role rigidity (ie. Should there be a male breadwinner and a female caregiver?)

Question 7

Communication

Answer 7

quality of family communication, especially in problem-solving and conflict resolution