Throughout life individuals will encounter both vertical and horizontal stresses that will affect themselves and their families. Vertical stresses are transmitted from one generation to another, such as family attitudes and expectations. Individuals will develop their aspirations and ambitions, have failures and go through emotional struggles. Horizontal stresses are the foreseeable marker of events that move over a person’s life cycle. Horizontal stresses are infertility, birth, and death, parenting, children leaving home, medical conditions, infidelity, and aging (I. Goldenberg & H. Goldenberg, 2008). Each of these different stresses has an effect on an individual and how they will react to situations.
Ed and Jessica have numerous stresses that contribute towards the negative family environment. There are vertical stresses between the couple because of different parenting styles in how they are going to raise the children. Possibly that Ed was raised around parents that drank regular compared to Jessica’s lack of alcohol habits. Additionally, there are secrets, emotional struggles and hopes and failures that this family has faced over the years. Ed feels responsible for taking care of his mother, while Jessica believes that Barbara should be …show more content…
The structure of relationships has a significant effect on how they may influence personal development. Historical events, social changes that occurred over time, how each life is linked and influences the strengths, resiliency and the ability to change as society does constantly. The downfall to life course perspective is that there is no way of diagnosing an individual with mental conditions without additional assistance from the DSM-5. The two work in conjunction with one another, life course provides case history, DSM-5 provides the necessary diagnosis to assist with
Ed and Jessica have numerous stresses that contribute towards the negative family environment. There are vertical stresses between the couple because of different parenting styles in how they are going to raise the children. Possibly that Ed was raised around parents that drank regular compared to Jessica’s lack of alcohol habits. Additionally, there are secrets, emotional struggles and hopes and failures that this family has faced over the years. Ed feels responsible for taking care of his mother, while Jessica believes that Barbara should be …show more content…
The structure of relationships has a significant effect on how they may influence personal development. Historical events, social changes that occurred over time, how each life is linked and influences the strengths, resiliency and the ability to change as society does constantly. The downfall to life course perspective is that there is no way of diagnosing an individual with mental conditions without additional assistance from the DSM-5. The two work in conjunction with one another, life course provides case history, DSM-5 provides the necessary diagnosis to assist with