Crisis Week

In our class discussion this week we talked about family crisis. During a crisis, usually these three things are a common factor; increase of stress, an emergency, and change from routine occurs. We talked about how a crisis symbolizes dangers and opportunity. When a crisis occurs it tends to "show the true colors" of a person personality. It's almost like a test of how someone will really react. This reminds me of resilience, which means the ability of a family, or a person, to go through hard times, but still remain strong.  We also talked about the abc's of a crisis, and they are as follows; a is the actual event, b is the resources and response, c is the cognitive part of a crisis, and x is the total experience of the crisis. The one thing I really like about this weeks topic is one of the definitions in the book, and that's reframing. Reframing means to change your perspective about an event or something that happens to you. For me, if I did this all the time the things that would happen to me might not be such a big deal. I believe reframing can save a lot of wasted time and energy on minor things, and get put toward something more important.