Family Crisis

I have really enjoyed learning about family crisis this week in class. It is really interesting the ways in which family deal with crisis and the effects that it has on the family dynamic.
We discussed the ABC's of family crisis.
A- Actual event
B- Behavioral response
C - Cognition
X- total eXperience

We are not able to control the actual event that occurs but we do have power in over how we think about the event and the actions that we take because of that. I think it is super important to know that we all have the ability to choose what we think and how we react to every situation. It seems that we often take ourselves out of the situation thinking that we really have no control over anything. But, the cool thing is, is that we really do. Thoughts lead to actions, so it is important to make our thoughts what we want them to be then we can control our actions.
It is awesome that we can take from these stressful family situations and make something better out of it. Another concept is to learn from what is going on and prepare ourselves for stressors in the future.