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According to the Carter & McGoldrick model, a family member with an addiction problem would be considered a vertical stressor.

Three types of time are used to explain a life course perspective.  Which one is not commonly used?

The severity of stress depends, in part, upon the family’s resources and their interpretation of the events surrounding the stressor event.

A stressor is defined as an expected experience in the family life-cycle that causes a minor disturbance.

Sometimes in families with disabled children, the child gets “blamed” for all the marital and family problems.  This violates which of our textbook authors’ characteristics of functional families:

Which statement describes current thinking about models for family life cycles and transactions?

“No two children grow up with the same parents.” Why not?

Healthy families maintain extremely strong external boundaries.

Horizontal stressors move across time and include developmental predictable stresses as well as unpredictable crises and historical events that disrupt the family system.

__________ refers to a family’s ability to do well in the face of adversity.