HDFS302-Unit 4 Flashcards
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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
Acute Stress
Short-term stress
Chronic Stress
Long-term stress
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 past year, each of which is assigned a point value. The higher the score, the greater the chance of having a serious medical event.
ABC-X Model
A model designed to help us understand the variation int he 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 stresses and crises and how families adapt to them.
Intimate Partner Violence
Violence between those who are physically and sexually intimate, such as spouses or partners. The violence can encompass physical, economic, sexual or psychological abuse.
Conflict Tactics Scale
A scale based on how people deal with disagreements in relationships
Femicide
The killing of women.
Learned Helplessness
The psychological condition of having low-self esteem, feeling helpless, and having no control that is caused by repeated abuse.
Battered Women’s Syndrome
A recognized psychological condition, often a subcategory of post-traumatic stress syndrome, used to describe someone who has been the victim of consistent and/or severe domestic violence
Date Rape Drugs
Drugs such as gamma hydrobutyrate (GHB), Rohyphnol (popularly known as “roofies” or “roofenol”), or ketamine hydrochloride (Ketamine) that are used to immobilize a person to facilitate an assault
Trafficking
The recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of persons, by means of threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, or fraud or deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability, or of the giving or receiving of payments to achieve the consent of a person having a control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation.
Sex Trafficking
An industry in which children are coerced, kidnapped, sold, or deceived into sexual encounters.
Elder Abuse
Abuse of an elderly person that can include physical abuse, sexual abuse, psychological abuse, financial or material exploitation, and neglect.
Intergenerational Transmission of Violence
A cycle of violence that is passed down to dependents
Domestic Violence Shelter
A temporary safe house for a woman (with or without children) who is escaping an abusive relationship.
Crude Divorce Rate
The number of divorces per 1,000 people in the population.
Refined Divorce Rate
A measure of divorce based on the number of divorces that occur out of every 1,000 married women.
Intergenerational Transmission of Divorce
A pattern noted by researchers that people whose parents divorced are also more likely to divorce.
No-Fault Divorce
A type of divorce, now prevalent in all fifty states, in which a divorcing couple can go before a judge without one party having to blame the other.
Legal Separation
A binding agreement signed by both spouses that provides details about child support
