| A | B |
| Self-Immolation | The practice of setting oneself on fire for the purpose of suicide |
| Personal Resilience | An individuals ability to cope with and manage stress |
| Somatization | Manifestation of physical symptoms from psychological problems |
| Trauma Theory | A traumatic event is handled determines the extent of trauma that a victim experiences |
| Family Systems Theory | This explains that different traits and coping mechanisms are passed from generation to generation within a family |
| Fusion | An extreme emotional connection between intimate partners |
| Social Learning Theory | This explains that violent and abusive behavior is learned |
| Family Violence | The intentional abusive behavior against a family member that includes physical and sexual assault |
| Domestic Violence | Intentional abusive against an intimate partner that includes physical and sexual assualt |
| Cope | To manage and confront stress |
| Criss | This is an unstable condition in which there's a lack of sufficient resources to manage the situation |
| Family Stress | An imbalance between the demands on a family and the family's ability to meet those demands |
| Buoyancy | A family's ability to keep afloat during adversity |
| Elasticity | Ability to recover from trauma or a crisis |
| Recovery Factory | Characteristics of a family that assist recuperation from stress or a crisis |
| Wife Rape | Forces sex on a female spouse by a male spouse |
| Resiliency | Ability of a family to function within familiar patterns or to create new patterns in the face of adversity or a crisis |