Family stressors can come in many different forms. For example, there are the normal stressors that involve getting married, having a baby, experiencing a new living situation or unemployment. These hard times are experienced by most families throughout the lifespan. However, there are also the abnormal stressors such as, war, economic collapse, natural disasters, or murder. These tend to happen to family systems at random and make more of a longer and lasting impact. The ABC – X Theory of Family Stress model created by Reuben Hill is used to describe the process by which families survive and endure over the lifespan (Hill, 1949). The ABC-X model theory can be applied to the popular movie “The Blind Side”. Using this model to analyze the family’s interaction between (a) the stressors, (b) the family’s resources, and (c) their
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Hill and other theorist for example, McCubbin also considered the idea when there is an additional crisis added to the original unresolved situation that it will thus further reduce the family’s ability to cope and function, this is referred to as the “pile-up” crisis. In “The Blind Slide” Michael, “Big Mike” has been in and out of foster care with different families for most of his life. One day Leigh Anne Tuohy begins to take notice of Michael and his troubled and lonely background. Sean, Leigh Anne’s husband is the high school football coach and has also taken notice of Michael who recently joined the team. Leigh Anne runs into Michael walking along the road one night out in the cold and invites him in to stay the night at their house. The Tuohy family learns that Michael has run away from his foster home and is homeless, slowly he becomes a member of the family and officially moves in with the family. Michael
Hill and other theorist for example, McCubbin also considered the idea when there is an additional crisis added to the original unresolved situation that it will thus further reduce the family’s ability to cope and function, this is referred to as the “pile-up” crisis. In “The Blind Slide” Michael, “Big Mike” has been in and out of foster care with different families for most of his life. One day Leigh Anne Tuohy begins to take notice of Michael and his troubled and lonely background. Sean, Leigh Anne’s husband is the high school football coach and has also taken notice of Michael who recently joined the team. Leigh Anne runs into Michael walking along the road one night out in the cold and invites him in to stay the night at their house. The Tuohy family learns that Michael has run away from his foster home and is homeless, slowly he becomes a member of the family and officially moves in with the family. Michael