Family Relations June 17th-21st

This week in Family Relations we discussed stressor events. I believe that stress does demand temporary change or adjustment but can also create opportunities. When the brain is sending a signal of danger, the individual can either choose fight, flight, or freeze. Freezing is also an important mechanism in determining our safety. Hill determined that when families go through stressor situations much of their family satisfaction decreases and sometimes never returns to the peak before the stressor. I believe we can choose our emotions. In class a student gave the example of: the stimulus + physiological response + Cognitive Interpretation (which is our ability to choose) = Emotion. How we as individuals choose to deal with our stressors varies but we can all control the emotions we feel caused by our stresses.