Chapter Objectives

After reading the chapter, you should be able to:

1.

understand that conflict is inevitable in family relationships.

2.

identify the sources of conflict in the family: personal, physical, interpersonal, and situational or environmental.

3.

effects of conflict on children

4.

discuss methods of dealing with conflict.

5.

describe the meaning of crises and the definable stages of coping with a family crisis.

6.

understand the reasons for infidelity and the crisis it creates.

7.

discuss the crisis of economic distress, the effects on individuals and family relationships, and means of coping with economic distress.

8.

describe the crisis of violence and abuse in the family, the factors related to violence, the facts about spouse abuse, child abuse, including sexual abuse, and the treatment for spouse and child abuse.

9.

discuss death as a family crisis, the varying circumstances of death, and people's reaction to them.

10.

describe the stages of grief and people's reactions during each stage.

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