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| family stress | is an imbalance between the demands on a family and the family’s ability to meet those demands |
| crisis | is an unstable condition in which there is a lack of sufficient resources to manage the situation |
| cope | is to manage and confront stress |
| resiliency | is the ability of an individual or family to function within familiar patterns or to create new patterns in the face of adversity or crisis |
| elasticity | is the ability to recover from trauma or crisis |
| buoyancy | is the ability of a family to keep afloat during adversity |
| recovery factors | are qualities or characteristics of a family that assist recuperation from stress or a crisis 2 |
| family violence | is intentional abusive behavior against a family member that includes intimidation and physical and sexual assault |
| domestic violence | is intentional abusive behavior against an intimate partner that includes intimidation and physical and sexual assault |
| intimate partner violence | is intentional physical, emotional, or sexual abuse, or intimidation via threats of physical or sexual abuse, typically between partners or spouses, but including other intimate family relations |
| wife rape | is forced sex on a female spouse by a male spouse |
| social learning theory | explains that violent and abusive behavior is learned |
| social cognition theory | explains that a child’s interpretation of a certain situation may not be as hostile or aggressive as he or she may perceive; changing children’s impressions may help them overcome abusive situations |
| family systems theory | explains that different traits and coping mechanisms are passed from generation to generation within a family |
| trauma theory | suggests that how a traumatic event is handled determines the extent of trauma that a victim experiences |
| somatization | is the manifestation of physical symptoms from psychological problems |
| personal resilience | is an individual’s ability to cope with and manage stress or a crisis |
| self-immolation | refers to the practice of setting oneself on fire, most frequently for the purpose of martyrdom or suicide. |
| fusion | is an extreme emotional connection and interdependence between intimate partners |
