Key Concepts Related to Gender Roles, Transition Points, Stress and Coping Strategies (2 pages)
- Describe gender roles in your family. Discuss whether traditional roles were ever challenged.
- Identify/describe any transition points that were difficult for your family and what helped your family adjust.
- Use the concepts of “normative stress”, “nonnormative stress”, and “stress pile up” to describe your family’s experience with stress.
- Describe any coping strategies that contributed to family resiliency or individual resiliency.