Deck 3: Risk and Resilience: Families at Their Best

Question 1

Chapter 3 discusses the salutogenic approach with emphasizes a sense of 'coherence' that reflects an approach to living that includes three interrelated components. Name and describe two of these three components.

Answer 1

Comprehensibility is defined as the cognitive ability to understand and put events in perspective, thus giving a sense of control over the situation. Manageability reflects a belief that individuals and families have the resources to cope successfully with change and challenge. Meaningfulness is an ability to find meaning from situations and the demands they create, plus the ability to learn from the experience of doing so. Problems are reinterpreted as challenges.

Question 2

Family stories serve multiple purposes. Describe two of the four ways family stories aids families and build resilience

Answer 2

a) family history lessons,
b) taps into emotions and allows members to share, listen, and interact,
c) allows feelings of uniqueness, pride,
d) allows families to heal and interpret events, plans courses of action, express powerful emotions, and makes sense of events.

Question 3

Compare 'community resilience' and 'social resilience' including an example of each.

Answer 3

Community resilience is temporary and often ends as recovery from adversity wanes. Social resilience is long-term, sustainable resilience that serves to make meaningful change.

Question 4

The Walsh Family Resilience Framework presents three primary key process areas including belief systems, organizational resources, and communication/problem solving. Describe one process for each area.

Question 5

The "Relational Processes: Family Resilience Determinants" model presents six interactive influences on family resilience including individual, familial, social-cultural, economic-political, global-environmental, and life course developmental. Use an example to illustrate how each of these determinants impact family resilience.

Question 6

According to Families With Futures, family resilience means an ability to

A) Bounce back from adversity
B) Spring forward and move on
C) Bounce back and spring forward
D) None of the above

Question 7

A salutogenic or strength-focused orientation to studying families reflects a sense of coherence that includes the following components EXCEPT

A) Sustainability
B) Comprehensibility
C) Manageability
D) Meaningfulness

Question 8

According to the readings, which term refers to the process or phenomenon of competence despite adversity

A) Salutogenesis
B) Resiliency
C) Resilience
D) Self-reliance

Question 9

Emotional health, which often influences individual and family resilience, results from an interplay of conditions including

A) Genetic inheritance
B) Social disparities
C) Environmental factors
D) All of the above

Question 10

Traits and dispositions of resilient individuals include the following EXCEPT

A) Sense of purpose and belief in a compelling future
B) Culturally rigid
C) Problem-solving skills
D) Social competence

Question 11

Family rituals and routines serve important functions including

A) Healing
B) Adapting
C) Celebrating
D) All of the above

Question 12

Family time is

A) Contextual and rigid
B) Perceptual and chaotic
C) Contextual and perceptual
D) Rigid and chaotic

Question 13

Family stories

A) Entertain
B) Transfer traditions
C) Construct futures
D) All of the above

Question 14

All of the following statements regarding transformational (posttraumatic) growth resulting from challenging circumstances are correct EXCEPT

A) Universal and stable
B) Displayed in some situations, but not in others
C) Dynamic process of which all are capable
D) Ability may change over time

Question 15

Walsh describes family key processes and identified three domains EXCEPT

A) Communication-problem solving
B) Belief systems
C) Hardiness
D) Organizational resources

Question 16

Family flexibility and connectedness fall into the _____ domain as identified by Walsh.

A) Communication-problem solving
B) Belief systems
C) Hardiness
D) Organizational resources

Question 17

Family open emotional expression falls into the _____ domain as identified by Walsh.

A) Communication-problem solving
B) Belief systems
C) Hardiness
D) Organizational resources

Question 18

Family positive outlook (preferred futures) falls into the _____ domain as identified by Walsh.

A) Communication-problem solving
B) Belief systems
C) Hardiness
D) Organizational resources

Question 19

Which form of resilience is sustainable and calls for interventions by multiple levels of the community?

A) Social resilience
B) Community resilience
C) Local resilience
D) Personal resilience

Question 20

In Box 3.3, McCubbin and McCubbin identify _______ as the centrality of family competencies referred to as protective factors (e.g. positive appraisals, social support, communication, and cohesion).

A) Coherence
B) Crisis
C) Adaptation
D) Adjustment

Question 21

In Box 3.3, McCubbin and McCubbin state that in times of crisis family processes of _________ are required to spark substantive changes in the family's patterns of functioning to facilitate recovery.

A) Coherence
B) Crisis
C) Adaptation
D) Adjustment

Question 22

The concept of disparities is addressed in the _______ determinant of the Relational Processes: Family Resilience Determinants model.

A) Environmental
B) Political
C) Biological
D) Social/Cultural

Question 23

Interactive protective processes occur on individual, family, and community levels. This is call a(an) _______ perspective.

A) Coherence
B) Resilience
C) Ecosystemic
D) Social-global

Question 24

Scholars recommend that future family studies researchers distinguish _______ resilience factors including

A) Protective
B) Promotive
C) Vulnerability
D) All of the above

Question 25

Scholars also recommend that future family studies researchers be able to unpack underlying resilience processes EXCEPT

A) Identify major stressors
B) Explore issues of high risk presumptions
C) Explore issues of low risk presumptions
D) Identify risk-free families