Terms to know
Stress caused by factors outside the family.
What is external stress?
Failing to give a child proper shelter, clothing, food medical care, supervision, love, or affection.
What is neglect?
The two main sources of internal stress.
What are:
1. Normal growth and development
2. Unresolved conflicts
Stress that comes from inside the family.
What is internal stress?
Small changes from many events continues to build.
What is the pile-up effect?
Family members won’t take ownership of a problem and blame others instead.
What is scapegoating?
Physical acts of violence such as slapping, choking, hitting, punching, kicking, stabbing, and threatening with a weapon.
What is battering?
The three factors that affect family roles.
What are:
1. Family needs
2. Past experiences
3.Changes outside and within the family
Any physical act intended to harm another person.
What is violence?
A life event that produce change in the family.
What is a stressor?
Actions by a person or caregiver that interferes with a child’s development and self-esteem.
What is emotional abuse?
Any physical or mental threat or injury to a child under the age of 18.
What is child abuse?
Three ways to reduce the effects of stress.
What are:
1. change the response to stressful events
2. set aside time to communicate
3. take part in a family activity
The intentional hurting of a person’s body causing physical injury.
What is physical abuse?
A medical problem that can’t be cured.
What is a chronic illness?
An impairment that interferes with certain abilities.
What is a disability?
Four rights and responsibilities in a family.
What are:
1. satisfy physical needs
2.promote emotional support
3. speaking and being heard
4. support and encouragement
Three ways to manage stress.
What are:
1. remove the source of stress
2. remove family members from the source of stress
3.break down the stressor into smaller parts
This term is experiences or events that cause people to make major changes in their lives
What are crises?
The two main sources of stress on a family.
What are:
1. internal stress
2. external stress
Planned behavior that helps the family adjust as quickly as possible to changes that have taken place.
What is coping behavior?
Three decision making methods.
What are:
1. Democratic decision making
2. selective decision making
3. shared decision-making
What are:
crisis-care centers
shelters
group homes
foster care
independent living
The difference between a chronic illness and a disability.
What is: A chronic illness is a permanent condition, but a disability may be temporary or permanent.
Three examples of events that could lead to a crisis.
What are:
chronic illness
disability
drug and alcohol abuse
unemployment or financial crisis
moving