FAD3432 Ch. 1 EXAM NEWEST 2025
EXAM COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
CORECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY
GRADED A+
The A in ABC-X Model - Answers - ✔✔Event or situation; Provoking or stressor event of
sufficient magnitude to result in change in a family
The B in ABC-X Model - Answers - ✔✔Resources; The family's resources or strengths
The C in ABC-X Model - Answers - ✔✔Perception; The definition or meaning attached
to the event by the family
The X in ABC-X Model - Answers - ✔✔The degree of stress or crisis
Normative stressors - Answers - ✔✔Predictable and normal, such life cycle events have
the potential of changing a family's level of stress because they disturb the system
equilibrium but only for short duration of time. Examples are birth or death, child's
school entry, retirement
Non-normative stressors - Answers - ✔✔Some unique situations that could not be
predicted and is not likely to be repeated. Examples: natural disasters, loss of child or
job, accidents
Ambiguous loss - Answers - ✔✔In congruency between physical and psychological/
emotional presence/absence
Mastery orientation - Answers - ✔✔May believe they can solve any problem and control
just about anything that could happen to them
Fatalistic orientation - Answers - ✔✔More likely to believe that everything is determined
by a higher power and all events are predetermined and not under their control
Family system resources - Answers - ✔✔Internal attributes of the family unit that protect
the family from impact of stressors and facilitate family adaptation during family stress
and/or crisis. Examples are family cohesion and adaptability
, What does stress represent? - Answers - ✔✔A change in the family's steady state and
is the response of the family to the demands experienced as a result of a stressor
event.
When does stress become problematic? - Answers - ✔✔When the degree of stress in
the family system reaches a level at which the family becomes disrupted or individual
members become dissatisfied or display physical or emotional symptoms.
How do men and women differ in their reaction to stressor events? - Answers -
✔✔Women are more likely to experience stress from relationship-oriented events and
men, from external events that threatened the family or their good-provider role.
How has family coping been explained in 3 types of responses? - Answers - ✔✔1.
Direct (learning new skills) 2. intraphysic (reframing the problem) and 3. Controlling the
emotions generated by the stressor (social support)
What does coping represent? - Answers - ✔✔What people do, their concrete efforts to
deal with a stressor. It is a process, not an outcome. It refers to all efforts expended to
manage a stressor regardless of the effect.
What is coping? - Answers - ✔✔A ongoing process of achieving balance in the family
system that facilitates organization and unity and promotes individual growth and
development
Why is it better for a family to "fail to cope" even if it results in a crisis? - Answers -
✔✔After the crisis, the family can reorganize into a better-functioning system. For
example, a divorce may be very painful for a family, but it may be necessary to allow the
family to grow into a different, more productive direction.
What is the purpose of post crisis or post stress adjustment? - Answers - ✔✔To reduce
or eliminate the disruptiveness in the family system and restore homeostasis
What is family adaptation? - Answers - ✔✔The degree to which the family system alters
its internal functions (behaviors, rules, roles, perceptions) and/or external reality to
achieve a system (individual or family)- environment fit.
How is adaptation achieved? - Answers - ✔✔Through reciprocal relationships in which a
system demands (or needs) are met by resources from the environment and
environmental demands are satisfied through system resources.
What do 'demands' include? - Answers - ✔✔Normative and non-normative stressor
events as well as the needs of individuals (intimacy), families (launching of children),
and social institutions and communities (gov authority)
EXAM COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
CORECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY
GRADED A+
The A in ABC-X Model - Answers - ✔✔Event or situation; Provoking or stressor event of
sufficient magnitude to result in change in a family
The B in ABC-X Model - Answers - ✔✔Resources; The family's resources or strengths
The C in ABC-X Model - Answers - ✔✔Perception; The definition or meaning attached
to the event by the family
The X in ABC-X Model - Answers - ✔✔The degree of stress or crisis
Normative stressors - Answers - ✔✔Predictable and normal, such life cycle events have
the potential of changing a family's level of stress because they disturb the system
equilibrium but only for short duration of time. Examples are birth or death, child's
school entry, retirement
Non-normative stressors - Answers - ✔✔Some unique situations that could not be
predicted and is not likely to be repeated. Examples: natural disasters, loss of child or
job, accidents
Ambiguous loss - Answers - ✔✔In congruency between physical and psychological/
emotional presence/absence
Mastery orientation - Answers - ✔✔May believe they can solve any problem and control
just about anything that could happen to them
Fatalistic orientation - Answers - ✔✔More likely to believe that everything is determined
by a higher power and all events are predetermined and not under their control
Family system resources - Answers - ✔✔Internal attributes of the family unit that protect
the family from impact of stressors and facilitate family adaptation during family stress
and/or crisis. Examples are family cohesion and adaptability
, What does stress represent? - Answers - ✔✔A change in the family's steady state and
is the response of the family to the demands experienced as a result of a stressor
event.
When does stress become problematic? - Answers - ✔✔When the degree of stress in
the family system reaches a level at which the family becomes disrupted or individual
members become dissatisfied or display physical or emotional symptoms.
How do men and women differ in their reaction to stressor events? - Answers -
✔✔Women are more likely to experience stress from relationship-oriented events and
men, from external events that threatened the family or their good-provider role.
How has family coping been explained in 3 types of responses? - Answers - ✔✔1.
Direct (learning new skills) 2. intraphysic (reframing the problem) and 3. Controlling the
emotions generated by the stressor (social support)
What does coping represent? - Answers - ✔✔What people do, their concrete efforts to
deal with a stressor. It is a process, not an outcome. It refers to all efforts expended to
manage a stressor regardless of the effect.
What is coping? - Answers - ✔✔A ongoing process of achieving balance in the family
system that facilitates organization and unity and promotes individual growth and
development
Why is it better for a family to "fail to cope" even if it results in a crisis? - Answers -
✔✔After the crisis, the family can reorganize into a better-functioning system. For
example, a divorce may be very painful for a family, but it may be necessary to allow the
family to grow into a different, more productive direction.
What is the purpose of post crisis or post stress adjustment? - Answers - ✔✔To reduce
or eliminate the disruptiveness in the family system and restore homeostasis
What is family adaptation? - Answers - ✔✔The degree to which the family system alters
its internal functions (behaviors, rules, roles, perceptions) and/or external reality to
achieve a system (individual or family)- environment fit.
How is adaptation achieved? - Answers - ✔✔Through reciprocal relationships in which a
system demands (or needs) are met by resources from the environment and
environmental demands are satisfied through system resources.
What do 'demands' include? - Answers - ✔✔Normative and non-normative stressor
events as well as the needs of individuals (intimacy), families (launching of children),
and social institutions and communities (gov authority)
