Unit 4 Notes Flashcards
Chapter 11: Family Stress and Crisis: Violence among Intimates
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The Nature of Stress and Crisis
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
Table 11.1: The 10 Most Common Family Stressors
- Finances and Budgeting
- Children’s behavior
- Insufficient time as a “couple”
- Lack of shared responsibility in family
- Communication with Children
- Insufficient time for “me”
- Guilt for not accomplishing more
- Relationship with spouse
- Insufficient family “play time”
- Overscheduled family calendar
The Nature of Stress and Crisis
Responses to stress:
–General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS): The predictable pattern one’s body follows when coping with stress, which includes the alarm reaction, resistance, and exhaustion
The Social Readjustment Rating Scale: A scale of major life events over the past year, each of which is assigned a point value.
The Nature of Stress and Crisis (cont’d)
Pattern of Family Crises
- 3 distinct phases
- -1. The EVENT that causes the crises
- -2. The period of DISORGANIZATION that follows
- -3. The REORGANIZATION that takes place afterwards.
The Nature of Stress and Crisis (cont’d)
Coping or Not: The ABC-X Models
- ABC-X Model: A model designed to help us understand the variation in the 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.
Violence Among Intimates
Violence is a social problem because:
- It affects large numbers of people
- Violence is not completely random
Intimate Partner Violence
Defined as violence between those who are physically and sexually intimate, such as spouses or partners
–Can encompass physical, economic, sexual, or psychological abuse
Intimate Partner Violence
How we define and Measure Intimate Partner Violence
-Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS): A scale based on how people deal with disagreements in relationships
–Are men or women more likely to be victims? Bias and the CTS
Frequency of Intimate Partner Violence
-Femicide: The killing of women
**Women are three times as likely as men to be assaulted by an intimate partner.
Intimate Partner Violence
Types of Intimate Partner Violence: -Common Couple Violence -Intimate Terrorism -Violent Resistance -Mutual Violent Control Stalking and Cyberstalking Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence
Intimate Partner Violence
Coping with Violence: Leaving and Staying
- -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.
Intimate Partner Violence
Violence in Gay and Lesbian Relationships
Dating Violence
Rape and Sexual Assault
-Rape on College Campuses
–“Date Rape” Drugs: Drugs that are used to immobilize a person to facilitate an assault
Child Abuse and Neglect
–Child Abuse: An attack on a child that results in an injury and violates our social norms
Types of Child Abuse
Corporal Punishment
Who would abuse Children?
Child Abuse and Neglect
Consequences of Child Abuse
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, of 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 control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation
Child Abuse and Neglect (cont’d)
Trafficking (continued)
–Sex Trafficking: An industry in which children are coerced, kidnapped, sold, or deceived into sexual encounters
Elder Abuse
Defined as the abuse of an elderly person that can include physical abuse, sexual abuse, psychological abuse, financial or material exploitation, and neglect
Explanation for Violence among Intimates
Micro-Level Explanations
- -The Intergenerational Transmission of Violence: A cycle of violence that is passed down to dependents
- Stress Explanation
Explanations for Violence among Intimates
Macro-Level Explanations --Patriarchy --Cultural Norms Support Violence --Norms of Family Privacy A synthesis: Power and Control
The Public’s Response
Violence and the Law
Domestic Violence Shelters
-Defined as a temporary safe house for a woman (with or without children) who is escaping an abusive relationship
Treatment Programs for Abusers
Chapter 12: The Processes of Divorce
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