Family Relations Chapter 11

Burr, Klein, and Associates created a model of coping strategies that focus on which of the following?

A hierarchy of coping strategies

According to Knapp and Vangelisti, which of the following is not a characteristic of a relationship ending or "coming apart"?

A recognition of similarities

Boundary ambiguity can make coping difficult for families because:

All of the above

Which statement best describes a life course perspective about unpredictable stresses?

Change depends upon the impact of the stressor upon the family and may delay or accelerate developmental aspects in the lives of family members.

Wallerstein's long-term studies of divorce indicated which of the following?

Children are affected by divorce of parents for many years

Which one of the statements below is not a general conclusion of research on divorce?

Children from divorced and non-divorced families experience similar levels of economic support for college

In crises, families adjust differently. Whether an event becomes a crisis depends upon three of the following factors. Which one is not as important?

How long the couple has been married and if this marriage is a second one for either or both

During Level______ coping, the family adjusts the rules about rules (metarules) regarding their stress.

II

According to recent research, stress is a multifaceted phenomenon with various levels of change for coping. Which level is it when family members change their basic assumptions about life and accept values and ideas they previously ignored or opposed?

Level III

Some spouses whose partners are in nursing homes suffering from Alzheimer's redefine their couple relationship and describe themselves as:

Married widows

Internet-based support groups can be particularly important to which of the following populations?

People with rare illnesses

After Jen learned that she was going to be fired from her job, she went through many stages of crisis and coping. During the _______ stage, she was very angry at her boss and herself. She found herself to get frustrated easily and be quite impatient during the day.

Recoil

Bill mourned for Nellie for over a year. After his wife died, he didn't seem to care to live. Gradually he began to function in his old, sure ways. He decided to take a trip and later to sell the farm and close out the house and part with furniture and mementos of forty-seven years. These behaviors nonverbally signal that Bill has moved from one crisis stage to another. In which stage is he when he moves away from "the old home?"

Reorganization

Which of the following is the best example of someone experiencing ambiguous loss?

Spouses of Alzheimer's patients who no longer remember them

A particularly salient dialectical tension experienced by parents whose child has died is:

The decision to grieve separately or together

Which of the following is an example of a C response (in an ABCX model)?

The meaning given to the stressor over time

Crises frequently include unforeseen pressures. The death of a child from illness may involve the following unpredicted stress:

The payment of funeral costs

Which of the following is not a factor in the model of family stress?

The size of the family

Karen becomes pregnant during her sophomore year in high school. After she has the baby, Karen has to manage the stress of finding childcare for her son during school hours. Which element of the Double ABCX Model does the stress of childcare represent?

a