| A | B |
| Crisis | An unstable condition in which there is a lack of sufficient resources to manage the situation. |
| Cope | To manage and confront stress |
| Buoyancy | The ability of a family to keep afloat during adversity |
| Elasticity | The ability to recover from trauma or crisis |
| Family stress | An imbalance between the demands on a family and the family's ability to meet those demands |
| Recovery Factors | Qualities or characteristics of a family that assist recuperation from stress or a crisis |
| Social learning theory | Explains that violent and abusive behavior is learned |
| Trauma theory | Suggests that how a traumatic event is handled determines the extent of trauma that a victim experiences |
| Conflict theory | Based on the idea that conflict is unavoidable and that violence is ussituations that causes change.ed by people to advance their own agendas |
| Stress | Real or perceived inability to meet demands as a result of events |