Internal Dynamics of Families
This content area focuses on relationships between individuals in a family. This includes family strengths, family weaknesses, and handling conflict and stress.
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My Family Stress Management course focused on how families deal with stress both as individuals and as a family unit. I learned about crisis and coping by studying Reuben Hill's ABC-X model, which illustrates how families perceive and adapt to stress. Hill's model illustrates that a family's ability to cope and adapt to a stressor depends on three important factors: the crisis-precipitating event (or stressor), the family's crisis-meeting resources, and the family's definition of the stressful event.
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In my CFS 3065 Adult-Child Relationships course, I learned about the different parenting styles: Permissive, Authoritative, Uninvolved/Neglecting, and Authoritarian. I learned that the Authoritative parenting style is the most effective form of parenting because the parent is both supportive and open-minded while also establishing consistent rules and appropriate expectations of their children.
In CFS 2050, we were required to keep a "Family Game-Plan Journal." In this journal, I was given the opportunity to reflect on both my current family and my future family when I get married and have children. The journal helped us to apply all of the classroom lessons and theories to our real lives.