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The Family Stress Model (FSM) posits that economic disadvantage creates economic pressure for caregivers, which has a detrimental effect on their personal mental health, then parenting practices, and hence the well-being of children and adolescents. It grew out of research efforts to understand how economic disadvantage impacts family processes.
These include Bandura's Self-Efficacy Theory, Lazarus' Stress Theory, Froma Walsh's Family Resilience Framework, and McCubbin and Patterson's Family Stress and Resilience Model. The family stress theory originates from the family systems model that considers all members of the family as important and as a system where all parts and interactions ...
Consideration of crisis theory: The VSA model accounts for the different kinds of life events and circumstances couples can face, and considers both how these stressors influence spouses' behavioral exchanges, and how these behavioral exchanges used to manage encountered stressors can serve to heighten or mitigate their effects.
The summary below provides a brief sampling to illustrate the breadth of impact parenting stress has on members of the core family system. It is an illustrative review extracting some examples from a recent more comprehensive review (with its own formal literature review search and extraction process) to concisely introduce a range of topics.
Stress management consists of a wide spectrum of techniques and psychotherapies aimed at controlling a person's level of psychological stress, especially chronic stress, generally for the purpose of improving the function of everyday life. Stress produces numerous physical and mental symptoms which vary according to each individual's ...
Stress is a life event or series of events that disrupt a person's psychological equilibrium and may catalyze the development of a disorder. [3] Thus the diathesis-stress model serves to explore how biological or genetic traits ( diatheses ) interact with environmental influences ( stressors ) to produce disorders such as depression, anxiety ...
Family therapy (also referred to as family counseling, family systems therapy, marriage and family therapy, couple and family therapy) is a branch of psychotherapy focused on families and couples in intimate relationships to nurture change and development.
FOCUS for Military Families, designed to address the stress of an increased operational tempo and multiple deployments on military families, [5] is currently offered at 18 U.S. military sites. [6] FOCUS offers several adaptations of the intervention, each of which uses the same core set of skills and the creation of a family narrative to assist ...