Family Crisis

Everyone deals with challenges differently and it all depends on how you do that determines how the challenge affects you. This week we talked about crisis and how families deal with it. Some people may look at a struggle as a big crisis while others may look at it as a small thing. It is all based on how you handle it and your other circumstances. We learned about the ABCX family crisis model. This is the actual event, the resources and your application, and cognition all adds up to the total experience that you have. Stressor events bring about a family crisis. The events are not sufficient to cause serious problems, but it is important to know the kind of events can cause a family crisis. There are different types of stressor events. They are categorized into internal and external. The internal stressor events are events that begin from someone inside the family, such as getting drunk, suicide, or running for election. The external events that begin from someone or something outside the family, such as earthquakes, terrorism, the inflation rate, or cultural attitudes toward women and minorities. The internal stressors are normative, ambiguous, volitional, chronic, cumulative. The external stressors are non-normative, non-ambiguous, non-volitional, acute, isolated. All of the stressors can be handled in a ways that make it easier for you and your family to handle. It is important to keep perspective and know that your trial will be just a moment in the grand scheme of things. If you just keep perspective, be flexible, and do what you can to take everything one step at a time and support the other people in your family.