Stress and Coping

In clinical psychology, we focus on stress the way on how to handle such situations: coping with stress. Stress is something that people face on a daily basis, learning how to cope with such is very key. A variety of physiological issues and psychological issues are caused by the different level of stress one has without learning how to cope. Stress and coping need to be studied and defined in the way stressors are handled in a behavioural and scientific manner. Stress, Crisis and Coping Stress is a response of the body to an unusual or a substantial physical, interpersonal demand, or environmental factor. Stressful moments, especially in circumstances that one has no the control off, are bound to happen to anyone: a child or an adult.

Stress results from a variety of things. For instance, doing house chores can be so stressful. Doing laundry gets my body overworked and makes my neck stiff. To cope up with the stress, I get my little boy to step on my back gently while I am laying done on my stomach firmly. For Instance, coming home from a long day’s work with a densified and stress level, one can be having a headache. To cope with the situation, one may choose to take pills for a headache and a hot bath that would relax her mind and muscles. In a workplace, one can deal with issues such as; accident, stress, violence, harassment, sexual assault, fatigue and burn out of the state of mind.

The type of theory that applies to the work setting and the changing aspects of a job is the Occupational Health Psychology. Staffs are trained to help employees manage and cope with stress (Maple, Edwards, Minichiello, & Plummer, 2013). It is one of the most stressful occasions that a family passes through its lifetime. Families who are resilient will be able to overcome and will be more intimate with one another (Maple, Edwards, Minichiello, & Plummer, 2013). Families who lack resilience will have a hard time adapting to the changes that are attached to the event: the family may crumble. According to Peer, Justin, Stephen & Hillman, 2014, family resilience is knowns as the properties, scopes, and characteristics of families that help them in adaption in the face of crisis circumstances and interruption in the face of change.

The crucial features of resilient families are support networks, routines or rituals, the family shared recreation, financial management, communication, flexibility, a positive outlook, and spirituality. X which is whether the family has failed or successfully adapted to the crisis. In this section, I will discuss how suicide affects a family. I will make use of the ABCX and Resiliency Model to analyze an actual case of how members within a family have effectively accepted the changes in the family due to the suicide. I will as well be discussing the resilient factors that have been found in family research that the family used to help them overcome the negative impacts of suicide as well as their ability to rise above the stressor event.

Thus, the family is able to share their experiences so as to help others who are in the same situation. Definitely, survivors of a suicide are negatively judged more than any other survivors of a loss. The vagueness appears to upsurge the necessity in a social network to fasten a blame. (Butcher, Mineka, & Hooley, 2013). Consequently, survivors of suicide are often in a worse state blaming oneself for the cause of their family member’s suicide. A Survivor’s social network is greatly impacted. Another struggle that survivors go through is feeling of guilt for perhaps exchanging words that could have potentially caused the family member to commit suicide. Survivors are also harsh on themselves thinking that they could have done something to prevent or should be more aware of the signs leading to the family’s member suicide.

Parents with children who committed suicides are especially vulnerable to this false thinking (Peer, Justin, Stephen & Hillman, 2014). Above, the focus is on the family as a whole. Now, I will focus on the individual survivors. The act of drawing a spoon to her mouth was a struggle for her. Just such as any other survivors, Angela also tried to find answers why her husband decided to commit suicide. She went through a stage where she blamed herself for her husband’s death even though Angela understood that it was not her fault. However, Angela snapped back to reality and helped her children to make sense of what they were going through in her life. She had to be strong not only for herself but for her three children.

Another coping strategy that Angela used was giving back to the community by helping others who are in the same situation by means of listening and giving support to them (Peer, Justin, Stephen & Hillman, 2014). Overall, just such as any survivors, Angela and her children grieved and struggled with adapting to the suicidal death in the family. However, it was Angela’s family resilient characteristics that allowed her and her children to become conquerors of the crisis. In the case study, analyzing by means of the ABCX mod (Peer, Justin, Stephen & Hillman, 2014) el, A is Angela’s husband suicidal death. B was her crisis resources such as her support networks and she never had financial trouble. Furthermore, the company can help build a positive self-efficacy employee by providing support and the assisting of an occupational psychologist build up morale and confidence all over the company (Butcher, Mineka, & Hooley, 2013).