HDFS302-Unit 4 Flashcards
Crisis
A critical change of events that disrupts the functioning of a person’s life.
Family Stress
Tensions that test a family’s emotional resources
Acute Stress
Short-term stress
Chronic Stress
Long-term stress
General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)
The predictable pattern one’s body follows when coping with stress, which includes the alarm reaction, resistance, and exhaustion.
Social Readjustment Rating Scale
A scale of major life events over the past year, each of which is assigned a point value. The higher the score, the greater the chance of having a serious medical event.
ABC-X Model
A model designed to help us understand the variation int he ways that families cope with stress and crisis
Double ABC-X Model
A model designed to help us understand the effects of the accumulation of stresses and crises and how families adapt to them.
Intimate Partner Violence
Violence between those who are physically and sexually intimate, such as spouses or partners. The violence can encompass physical, economic, sexual or psychological abuse.
Conflict Tactics Scale
A scale based on how people deal with disagreements in relationships
Femicide
The killing of women.
Learned Helplessness
The psychological condition of having low-self esteem, feeling helpless, and having no control that is caused by repeated abuse.
Battered Women’s Syndrome
A recognized psychological condition, often a subcategory of post-traumatic stress syndrome, used to describe someone who has been the victim of consistent and/or severe domestic violence
Date Rape Drugs
Drugs such as gamma hydrobutyrate (GHB), Rohyphnol (popularly known as “roofies” or “roofenol”), or ketamine hydrochloride (Ketamine) that are used to immobilize a person to facilitate an assault
Trafficking
The recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of persons, by means of threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, or fraud or deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability, or of the giving or receiving of payments to achieve the consent of a person having a control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation.
Sex Trafficking
An industry in which children are coerced, kidnapped, sold, or deceived into sexual encounters.
Elder Abuse
Abuse of an elderly person that can include physical abuse, sexual abuse, psychological abuse, financial or material exploitation, and neglect.
Intergenerational Transmission of Violence
A cycle of violence that is passed down to dependents
Domestic Violence Shelter
A temporary safe house for a woman (with or without children) who is escaping an abusive relationship.
Crude Divorce Rate
The number of divorces per 1,000 people in the population.
Refined Divorce Rate
A measure of divorce based on the number of divorces that occur out of every 1,000 married women.
Intergenerational Transmission of Divorce
A pattern noted by researchers that people whose parents divorced are also more likely to divorce.
No-Fault Divorce
A type of divorce, now prevalent in all fifty states, in which a divorcing couple can go before a judge without one party having to blame the other.
Legal Separation
A binding agreement signed by both spouses that provides details about child support
Stations of Divorce
The interrelated emotional, legal, economic, co-parental, community, and psychic dimensions of divorce, which together attempt to capture the complexity of the divorce experience.
Legal Divorce
The termination of the marriage contract by a state court order.
Alimony
Payment by one partner to the other to support the more dependent spouse for a period of time.
Legal Custody
A custody agreement where one parent has the legal authority to make important decisions concerning the children after a divorce, such as where they will reside, or who will be notified in case of a health emergency or school problem.
Sole Legal Custody
A child custody arrangement in which legal custody is granted solely to the parent with whom the child lives.
Joint Legal Custody
A custody agreement in which noncustodial parents (usually fathers) retain their legal rights with respect to their children.
Physical Custody
A child custody arrangement that decides where the child will reside.
Sole Physical Custody
A child custody arrangement in which the child legally lives with one parent and “visits” the other parent.
Joint Physical Custody
A custody agreement in which children spend a substantial portion of time in the homes of both parents, perhaps alternating weeks or days within a week.
Child Snatching
The act of a noncustodial parent kidnapping his or her child.
Divorce Mediation
A non-adversial means of resolution, in which the divorcing couple, along with a third party, such as a therapist or trained mediator, negotiate the terms of their financial, custody, and visitation settlement.
Child Support Order
A legal document delineating the amount and circumstances surrounding the financial support of noncustodial children.
Binuclear Families
A type of family consisting of divorced parents living in two separate households but remaining one family in spirit for the sake of the children.
Repartnering
The act of entering into a relationship after a divorce, which may lead to cohabitation or marriage
Double Standard of Aging
The view that women’s attractiveness and femininity decline with age, but men’s attractiveness and masculinity do not decline.
Blended Family (or reconstituted family)
Another term for stepfamily; a family that may consist of stepparents, stepsiblings, or half-siblings
Siblings
Children who share both biological parents
Stepsiblings
Children not biologically related but whose parents are married to one another.
Half-siblings
A child who shares one biological parent with another child.
Mutual child(ren)
The child (or children) born to a couple that has remarried.
Residential stepchild(ren)
A child (or children) living in the household with a remarried couple more than half of the time.
Nonresidential child(ren)
A child (or children) living in the household of a divorced parent less than half of the time.
Baby Boom Generation
People born in the years after WWII through the early 1960s
Life expectancy
The amount of time (in years) a person can expect to live from birth
Centenarian
A person who lives to be at least 100 years old
Social Security
A federal government-sponsored cash assistance program for seniors (and survivors)
Life-Stage Perspective
A perspective that claims development proceeds through a fairly set pattern of sequential stages that most people experience
Life-Span Perspective
A perspective that claims development is a lifelong process, is multidirectional, and consists of both positive and negative changes involving gains and losses.
Life-Course Perspective
A perspective that sees age-related transitions as socially produced, socially recognized, and shared–a product of social structure, historical forces, and culture.
Companionate Grandparenting
A type of grandparenting where the grandparents and grandchildren enjoy recreational activities, occasional overnight stays, and even babysitting with an emphasis on fun and enjoyment.
Remote Grandparenting
A type of grandparenting in which the grandparents and grandchildren are emotionally or physically distant
Involved Grandparenting
A type of grandparenting in which the grandparents and grandchildren have frequent interaction or possibly even live together.
Kinkeeping
Maintaining ties among family members
Gerontologists
Researchers studying issues affecting the elderly
Activities of Daily Living (ADLs)
General day to day activities such as cooking, cleaning, bathing, and home repair.
Dementia
The loss of mental functions such as thinking, memory, and reasoning
Alzheimer’s disease
The most common form of dementia; at present, it is incurable
Formal Care
Care provided by social service agencies on a paid or volunteer basis
Informal Care
Unpaid care by someone close to the care recipient
“Sandwich Generation”
A generation of people who are in the middle of two living generations providing care to members of cohorts on both sides of them, parents and children.
Resilience
A multi-faceted ability to thrive despite adversity
Individual-Level Protective Factors
Traits including a positive self-concept, sociability, intelligence and scholastic competence, autonomy, self-esteem, androgyny, good communication, and problem-solving skills, humor, and good mental and physical health
Family Protective Factors
Family characteristics or dynamics that shape the family’s ability to endure in the face of risk factors
Family Recovery Factors
Family characteristics or dynamics that assist families in bouncing back from a crisis situation
Community Factors
Community features that help promote resilience, such as social networks and religious and faith-based fellowships
Selective Programs
Programs for which only a select group of people is eligible
Means-tested Programs
Programs for which beneficiaries need to meet some eligibility requirement to qualify
Universal Programs
Programs to help strengthen all families without any eligibility requirement
Progressive Taxation
A tax system under which those who earn more pay a higher percentage of their income in taxes than those who earn less.
National Health Insurance
A health care system for all citizens that considers health care a public right
Maternity (or family) Leave
A paid and guaranteed leave from work to care for children, including after the birth of a child
Flextime
Flexibility in the daily hours of work
Flexplace
Flexibility in the location of work, including working from home
Telecommuting
Flexibility in the location of work, including working from home.
Earned Income Tax Credit
A refundable federal tax credit for low-income working families that reduces the amount of taxes owed.
Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF)
The principal cash welfare program in the United States
Early Childhood Intervention
Attempts to maintain or improve the quality of life for young children
Cumulative Advantage and Disadvantage
Early life chances that influence status in later life
