What do we mean by normative and nonnormative stressors? Give several examples of each type of stressor.

What will be an ideal response?


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a. Normative stressors are part of everyday life (i.e., daily hassles) or are longer-term developmental transitions that occur normally during the family life course.
b. Daily hassles, developmental transitions
c. Parents also face stressor events that are nonnormative in the sense that they are unpredictable occurrences that are substantially disruptive to the everyday pattern of parent–child relationships
d. Off-time developments, initial awareness, diagnosis

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A common trap that counselors fall into when they hear the indirect or direct cues of some reluctance is to try to "sell" the group even harder

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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FERPA and PPRA are also known as the

a. Butcher Amendment and the Hatch Amendment, respectively. b. Hatch Amendment and the Butcher Amendment, respectively. c. Buckley Amendment and the Hatch Amendment, respectively. d. None of the above.

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The belief that social movements develop in response to some form of societal stress such as social inequality, social isolation, or conflicts in cultural beliefs is central to ______.

A. strain theory B. social reform C. cultural framing perspective D. political opportunity perspective

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(P78) According to William Cross’s Theory of Nigresence and Black Identity formation the stages are:

a. Preencounter, disintegration, pseudo-independence, and autonomy. b. Preencounter, encounter, immersion/emersion, and internalization. c. Contact, disintegration, immersion, and independence. d. Preencounter, encounter, immersion, and consciousness.

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