Power & Violence
The umbrella term used to cover both abuse and neglect of children.
What is child maltreatment?
This type of family bounces back from crisis and does well in the face of adversity.
What are resilient families?
This gender-group tends to initiate divorce more often.
What are women?
Historically, stepfamilies were formed after this life event.
Those who are 85 years of age and older are considered to be in this group.
What is "old-old"?
The type of power that comes from a person's ability to make their partner do what they want them to do by either actual or threatened violence.
What is coercive power?
This is the term used to describe experiencing an unrelenting series of small crises that add up to a major crisis.
What is stress overload?
This term refers to ruptures of relationships and changes in social networks that come about as a result of divorce.
What is divorce fallout?
Before getting involved in this aspect of a stepchild's life, stepparents should first plan to focus on the relationship/connection with the stepchild.
What is discipline?
Elders tend to prefer this group to be their caregiver when possible.
What is their spouse?
This stage in the Cycle of Violence refers to the period in which an abuser will apologize and try to compensate for the violence in an attempt to convince their partner that the violence won't happen again.
What is the honeymoon stage?
In the ABC-X model, this letter represents the resources available to a family to deal with a crisis.
What is "B"?
The majority of divorces happen within this many years of marriage.
What is 5 years?
More and more stepfamilies today result from this type of union.
What is cohabitation?
This group is responsible for the majority of elder abuse.
What are spouses/partners of elders?
This term describes violence that is perpetuated by ONE partner rather than both and is significant less common than situational couple violence.
What is domestic terrorism?
This term refers to redefining stressful events to make them more manageable,
What is reframing?
This concept depicts the disparity in divorce rates between those who are college-educated and those who are not.
What is the divorce divide?
This type of triadic communication is thought to be ideal, at least for children in stepfamilies.
What is the complete triad?
This perspective sees elder abuse as occurring primarily because of caregiver burnout/feeling overwhelmed.
What is the Caregiver Model of Elder Abuse and Neglect?
This type of power comes from society bestowing power/privilege on certain groups of people.
What is legitimate power?
That period in a family crisis, after the stressor event has occurred, during which family morale and organization slump and habitual roles and routines become nebulous.
What is the period of family disorganization?
An assessment of income as to the degree it meets the needs of the individual, family, or household.
What is Income-to-Needs ratio?
The presence of this often leads to higher rates of divorce for remarried couples.
What are stepchildren?
The aging population is doing this in regards to both number and proportion to the rest of the American population.
What is increasing/growing?