Types of Stressor Events
Resources
Definition of the Situation
Concepts
Miscellaneous
100
It is a developmental and universal stressor.
What is a normative stressor?
100
An example of this type of resource would be a home or a car.
What is a material resource?
100
These are thoughts and behaviors to manage the stressor.
What are coping strategies?
100
This is when the family adjusts and modifies fittingly to the stressor.
What is adaptation?
100
This is the kind of model that the ABC-X model is, that is the opposite from the Family Systems Theory.
What is a linear model?
200
An example of this type of stressor is a parent in prison.
What is an example of an ambiguous stressor?
200
An example from this category of resources is an employment office.
What is a community resource?
200
This is the process of changes in emotional energy from negative to positive.
What is cognitive reappraisal?
200
This is when there is unhealthy coping within the family.
What is maladaptation?
200
From the FAAR model, these are tangible and psychological resources and coping behaviors.
What are family capabilities?
300
It is resolved before another stressor occurs.
What is an isolated stressor?
300
Some examples from this category of a resource are the skills and knowledge that a person has.
What are individual resources?
300
It is the predictor that biases a person to act as though the prediction is already true.
What is the self-fulfilling prophecy?
300
An example of this is when a person responds to stress by exercising.
What is bon-adaptation?
300
From the FARR model, this is a family meaning in which the definition is the "view and definition of themselves as a family".
What is family identity?
400
An example of this stressor would be a father being laid off from his job.
What is an example of a non-volitional stressor?
400
An example of this type of resource would be would be the extended family, friends, neighborhood and schools.
What are social resources?
400
This is when a person thinks about whether or not their situation is positive or negative, good or bad, or optimistic or pessimistic.
What is cognitive appraisal?
400
An example of this is when a person responds to stress by drinking alcohol and using drugs.
What is maladaptation?
400
From the FARR model, the definition of this family meaning is "constructing meaning about stressor events as well as the family's capabilities".
What is situational?
500
This is an unknown stressor.
What is an ambiguous stressor?
500
Individual, family and community
What are the 3 categories of resources?
500
This concept makes stressors positive or negative, not the stressors themselves.
What is perception?
500
An example of this is when a person responds to stress by going to therapy.
What is bon-adaptation?
500
From the FAAR model, these are the risk factors, such as, the non-normative and normative stressors, ongoing family strains and daily hassles.
What are family demands?
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