Develop strategies for resolving individual and family stress, conflict, and crisis.
Development should include
- following steps for coping with crisis
- using techniques to relieve stress, such as deep breathing, imagery, and progressive relaxation
- identifying the importance of self-care
- identifying family resources
- using techniques to prevent and manage conflict.
Process/Skill Questions:
Thinking
- What factors may influence the types of strategies preferred by individuals and families?
- What resources are available to families experiencing stress?
- What is self-care?
- What skills are learned during the process of effectively managing stress?
Communication
- What influences beliefs and attitudes regarding conflict and conflict management?
- How do communication skills affect strategies for preventing, minimizing, or resolving family stress, conflict, and crisis?
- What techniques exist to prevent and manage conflict?
- How can good communication lessen the consequences of stress?
- What non-verbal cues can identify stress within a family?
Leadership
- How does stress, conflict, or crisis affect the goals of families or individual family members?
- What leadership skills can be used to develop coping strategies?
- How can resources be accessed to help family members cope with crisis?
- How can stress relief be used by a leader in the workplace?
- How can delegation relieve stress within a family?
Management
- What are strategies for preventing, minimizing, or resolving family stress, conflict, and crisis?
- What are the consequences of using various strategies to cope with stress, conflict, and crisis?
- What are positive ways that the triggers of stress on the body can be relieved?
- How can the planning process be used to resolve a family conflict?
- What affect can goal setting have on stress, conflict, and crisis?