Family Coping

Name Group :
1. Desi Taroi Jumariska
2. M. Abdul Azis
3. Nanda Elisa
4. Rosmala Dewi
5. Siska Fitriani
6. Siti Yunaydah Ayni

Group 8
 Stressor
 Stress is a tense response generated by stressors or real
demands that have not been addressed in a person
 Stressors refer to the causes that activate the stress
process. Where such causes activate stress in the family,
with events in life that are serious enough to cause
changes in the family system.
 The stress that occurs in a person or family will require
an adaptable person or family in which adaptation is a
process of adjustment to change.
 Adaptation can be positive and negative, leading to an
increase or decrease in the healthy state of the family
 Family Coping
Defined as a positive response, according to
the problem, affective, perceptive and
behavioral responses that families and their
subsystems use to solve a problem or reduce
stress caused by a problem or event
 Family coping strategy
Normative coping response
Pearlin and Schooler (1978) identified
three types of coping tactics that are
widely used by individuals in performing
their social functions.
 Type of coping strategy of the family
 The first type of coping strategy:
To change a stressful situation by tackling the tension
in life directly. This type is directed to change and
eliminate stressors.
 The second type of coping strategy:
Consists of tactics that serve to control the meaning of
the problem
 The third type of koping strategy:
A mechanisme that is essentially used to help in
ordering and controlling stress rather than to cope with
the stressors themselves.
 Type of coping strategy of the family
No Internal family coping strategy Coping strategies of external families

1. Rely on family groups Searching for information

2. Use of humor Maintain an active relationship with the

community

3. Increased shared disclosure Seeking social support

a. Use of informal social support networks
b. The use of a formal social system
c. Use of self-help groups

4. Controlling the meaning or meaning Seek spiritual support

of the problem: cognitive re-
establishment and passive
assessment
5. Troubleshooting family issues
together
6. Flexibility role
7. Normalization
 Dysfunctional adaptive strategy
Dysfunctional adaptive strategies
minimize stress temporarily, a time
when stress will come back because
important stressors are not handled.
Dysfunctional adaptive strategies have
a devastating effect on family members.
 Typology of dysfunctional family
adaptive strategies
1. Denial of the problem and exploitation of
one or more family members
a. Emotional exploitation is active but
exploitation is clearly emotional
b. Non-physical passive emotional
exploitation
c. Physical and emotional exploitation
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2. Denial of family problems
a. Denial in the family belief system
b. Disclaimers are maintained through the distance of
certain emotions, customs, and traditions or
triangling, and peseudomutualitas
3. The separation or loss of family members. Left husband
or wife, institutionalization, divorce, physical family
absence.
4. Authoritarianism