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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.

Dual-career families rarely engage in role negotiation.

According to Carter & McGoldrick’s “family stress model,” violence, addictions, depression, and lack of spirituality may be stressors that affect which level of the model?