crisis - a critical change of events that disrupts the functioning of a person's life
family stress - tensions that test a family's emotional resources
acute stress - short-term stress
chronic stress - long-term stress
General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) - the predictable pattern one's body follows when coping with
stress, which includes the alarm reaction, resistance, and exhaustion
Social Readjustment Rating Scale - a scale of major life events over the past year, each of which is
assigned a point value. The higher the score, the greater the chance of having a serious medical event.
ABC-X Model - a model designed to help us understand the variation in the ways that families cope with
stress and crisis
Double ABC-X Model - a model designed to help us understand the effects of the accumulation of
stresses and crises and how families adapt to them
intimate partner violence - violence between those who are physically and sexually intimate, such as
spouses or partners. the violence can encompass physical, economic, sexual, or psychological abuse.
Conflict Tactics Scale - a scale based on how people deal with disagreements in relationships
learned helplessness - the psychological condition of having low-self esteem, feeling helpless, and
having no control that is caused by repeated abuse
, Battered Women's Syndrome - a recognized psychological condition, often a subcategory of post-
traumatic stress syndrome, used to describe someone who has been the victim of constant and/or
severe domestic violence
date rape drugs - drugs such as gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB), Rohypnol (popularly known as "roofies"
or "roofenol"), or ketamine hydrochloride (Ketamine) that are used to immobilize a person to facilitate
an assault
child abuse - an attack on a child that results in an injury and violates our social norms
trafficking - the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of persons, by means of
threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud or deception, of the abuse of
power or of a position of vulnerability, or of the giving or receiving of payments to achieve the consent
of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation
sex trafficking - an industry in which children are coerced, kidnapped, sold, or deceived into sexual
encounters
elder abuse - abuse of an elderly person that can include physical abuse, sexual abuse, psychological
abuse, financial or material exploitation, and neglect
intergenerational transmission of violence - a cycle of violence that is passed down to dependents
domestic violence shelter - a temporary safe house for a woman (with or without children) who is
escaping an abusive relationship
crude divorce rate - the number of divorces per 1000 people in the population
refined divorce rate - a measure of divorce based on the number of divorces that occur out of every
1,000 married women
intergenerational transmission of divorce - a pattern noted by researchers that people whose parents
divorced are also more likely to divorce
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