1. Dealing with Crises
Chapter 13

2. Objectives
 Identify
resources and support systems
that can help people manage crises.
 Describe strategies for the management
of problems in crises.
 List various types of family crises and
explain their effect on individuals and
families.

3. Identify Resources and support
systems that can help people
manage crises (resources)
 American
Red Cross – provides services
to families in the community
 Battered Women’s Center – provides help
for victims of family violence
 Big Brothers and Big Sisters – provides
adult companionship for children from
single parent families
 Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
(TANF) – families with children in need of
assistance

4. Identify Resources and support
systems that can help people
manage crises (resources) Cont.
 Children’s
Protective Services – children
who are in need of protection due to
abuse, neglect, abandonment, or sexual
exploitation in their family environments
 Family Counseling Center – individuals,
families, and groups needing counseling
 YMCA – YWCA – the general public
 Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA) – Americans preparing for or
coping with disasters

5. Describe strategies for the
management of problems in crises
 Turn
to mental resources for help
 Try to keep good physical health
 Try to keep a good financial status
 Manage a good family relationship
 Have friends listen to your problems and
talk to you about them
 Go to a community resource for advice or
health

6. Various types of family crises and
their effects on individuals and
families
 Loss
of job – not enough money in the
family
 Relocation – have to get to know other
people
 Addictions to alcohol and other drugs –
can tear a family apart because the ones
that are addicted can be very demanding

7. Various types of family crises and
their effects on individuals and
families
 Compulsive
Gambling – the gambler can
use all the money and there won’t be any
to fall back on
 Suicide – tears family members up
because sometimes they don’t know it’s
coming and others when they find out they
just don’t understand

8. Terms to Know
 Crisis
– A crucial time or event that causes
changes in a person’s life and has no
ready solution
 Shelters – Establishments that offer food
and housing for people who have nowhere
else to go
 Telephone Hotlines – Telephone numbers
that people can call for immediate help in
a crisis

9. More Terms to Know
 Intervention
–A
means of forcing a
person such as an
alcoholic or addict to
look at his or her
behavior without the
mask of denial
 Enabler – Someone
who unknowingly
acts in ways that
contribute to an
addict’s drug use.

10. More Terms to Know
 Codependency
– Set of
maladaptive,
compulsive behaviors
learned by family
members
 Compulsive Gambler –
Someone who loses
control over gambling
and continues to gamble
despite the harmful
consequences

11. And More Terms to Know
 Chasing
– Attempting to win back what
one has lost while gambling
 Bailout – Money loaned by family or
friends to finance gambling debts
 Sexual Assault – Any form of unwanted
sexual behavior forced on one person by
another

12. Some More Terms to Know
 Violence
– Any harmful physical contact
that results in serious injury or death
 Domestic Violence – Violence between
intimate friends of family members,
including spouses, children, or elders
 Child Abuse and Neglect – physical and
mental injury, sexual abuse, negligent
treatment, or maltreatment of a child
under the age of 18 by a person who is
responsible for the child’s welfare

13. Even More Terms to Know
 Physical
Abuse – The infliction of physical
injury upon a person
 Physical Neglect – The failure to provide
sufficient food, clothing, shelter, medical
care, education, guidance, and
supervision for a child
 Sexual Abuse – Forcing a child to engage
in sexual activities
 Incest – Sexual activity between persons
who are closely related

14. …And The Last Terms to Know
 Emotional
Abuse – Parents continually making
demands that their children are not capable of
meeting, then criticizing and humiliating the
children for not living up to their demands
 Emotional Neglect – The failure to provide
children with love and affection
 Halfway Houses – Centers where runaways can
receive care as well as counseling
 Preparedness – Being ready for crisis that could
occur

15. 3 Elements that help determine
whether a situation is overwhelming
 Hardship
– high
hardship, more likely to
be crisis
 Resources – no
resources- problem
becomes a crisis
 Attitude – lack of self
confidence can lead to
attitude when things
seem to be a crisis
quicker.

17. Community and National Crises
 The
U.S. experienced a national tragedy.
 9/11/01
 Pearl
Harbor
 Apollo 13
 JFK Assassination
 Other
Crises include
 Floods
 Fires
 Hurricanes
 Tornados

18. Causes of Crisis
 National
disaster (outside events)
 Family related – loss through death or
separation
 Family related – unexpected addition to
family
 Loss of family unit – nonsupport, abuse,
addict
 Delinquency – events that bring
disagreement

19. Reacting to Crisis
 Impact
– shock, numbness, fear, feelings
of helplessness
 Withdrawal and confusion – people pull
back, act emotionally cold and withdrawn
 Focus – ready to focus on reality, ask
what needs to be done, regain some
sense of control over emotions and can
see crisis more clearly
 Adaptation – final stage, actually dealing
with crisis, make changes that are
practical and appropriate

20. How would you cope with crises?
 Situation
 Greg
was in a diving accident and became
paralyzed
 Reactions:
 The
family built a ramp onto the house to
accommodate Greg’s wheelchair. They turned
the family room downstairs into a bedroom to
replace Greg’s upstairs room. Adapting let
Greg and his family get on with their lives.

21. Types of Abuse
 Sexual
assault
 Spouse or partner abuse
 Legal action and domestic abuse
 Elder abuse
 Child Abuse
 Family abuse

22. Criminal Attacks and Safety Tips
 In
your home – Keep doors and windows
locked, make people identify themselves,
never leave notes on your door.
 In your car – keep your car full of gas,
carry a cell phone, if you sense a follower
drive to the police station.

23. Compulsive Gambling
4
Stages of Gambling
 Winning
 Losing
 Desperation
 Hopelessness

24. Missing and Runaway Children
 More
than 1.5 million
children go missing
each year.
 Concerns include:
 Child
molesters
 Internet
 Personal info given out
 Halfway
houses are
places where
runaway teens get
help.
 Why teens run:
 Curfews
 Drug
use
 Divorce/remarriage
 Choice of friends

25. Intervention
 Taking
Direct Action to Cause Change
When Someone Else is In Crisis

26. Crisis that People Face
 Physical
heath
problems
 Effects on family life
 Financial effects
 Emotional effects
 Feelings
of anger or
resentment

27. What to Do
 Empathy
– touch, hug
 Offer to take
responsibility
 Explanations for
children
 Knowledge for teens
and adults about the
disease, openness

28. Mental Heath Problems
 Does
the person function normally on a
daily basis?
 Do the person’s actions routinely hurt or
trouble others?
 If
the answer is “no” to the 1st question and
“yes” to the 2nd, a real problem exists.
 Someone with a mental condition needs
professional help.

29. Suicide
 One
of the leading causes in teen death.
 Reasons include:
 Love
conflicts
 Life is not worth living
 Patterns
for suicide:
 Impulse
 Telling
people life isn’t worth it
 People suffering from illness
 Extreme depression

30. Alcohol and Drug Addictions
 Dependence
on a particular substance or
action
 May be compulsive behavior
 Drugs are a chemical substance
 Few forces are as destructive to
individuals and families

32. Alcoholism
 It
is an addiction to alcohol.
 Some signs include: drinking by oneself,
drink more over time, leads to blackouts,
may cause them to miss obligations
 Children often feel abandoned and
scared.
 Alcoholism is often cited as a cause for
family breakup and divorce.

34.  Alcoholism
is a
chronic disease
characterized by the
inability of the
person to control
his/her drinking,
craving for a drink
and dependence on
alcohol to feel
“normal.”

35.  Alcoholism
is a family disease, because it
impacts the entire family, not just the
alcoholic.
 Alcoholism is a community disease, because
alcoholics are more likely to lose productivity
at work, get into automobile accidents,
require emergency health care and have
legal entanglements.

36.  Alcoholism
is a
contributing factor to
suicide in many
cases.
 Alcohol is a leading
cause of birth
defects.

37.  Many
activities have
ages of initiation.
 A person must wait
until age 16 to start
driving, age 18 to
marry without parental
consent, age 35 to
become president, and
so on.
 The
age limit for alcohol
is based on research
which shows that young
people react differently
to alcohol.
 Teens get drunk twice
as fast as adults, but
have more trouble
knowing when to stop.
 Teens naturally overdo
it and binge more often
than adults.

38.  Enforcing
the legal
drinking age of 21
reduces traffic
crashes, protects
young people’s
maturing brains, and
keeps young people
safer overall.

39.  History
says no.
 When states had lower
legal drinking ages in
the U.S., the underage
drinking problem was
worse
 For
example, before the
21 minimum legal
drinking age was
implemented by all
states, underage drunk
drivers were involved in
over twice as many fatal
traffic crashes as today.

40.  That’s
a myth.
 European countries
have worse problems
than America does, as
far as binge drinking
and drinking to
intoxication.
 Studies
show that
Europe has more
underage drunkenness,
injury, rape, and school
problems due to
alcohol.
 Since alcohol is more
available there, it
actually increases the
proportion of kids who
drink in Europe.

41.  In
2006 there were
17,941 driving fatalities
related to alcohol. This
was 41 percent of the
total 43,000 fatalities.
 Half of all holiday
driving fatalities are
alcohol-related.
 Most people with DUIs
are not alcoholics.
 About
80 percent of
alcohol-related fatalities
are caused by beer
consumption.
 18-20 year olds are
responsible for more
than 10 percent of the
drunken driving trips in
America.

42.  In
addition to possible
jail time and fines, a
DUI conviction is
cause to have your
insurance policy
revoked and rates to
sky rocket. Many
people will be forced to
get SR-22 insurance.
 In
2003 about 1 in 135
drivers were arrested
for DUI. Thats' about
1.4 million people.
 About 30 percent of
Americans are involved
in an alcohol-related
crash sometime during
their lifetime

44. Other Drug Addictions
 Medical
Drugs
 Distort
and Illegal
thought
process and
emotions, seriously
damage organs,
neglect
responsibilities,
unpredictability
 Intervention is critical
 Suggestions to help
with addictions

45. Drug Addiction Facts
 The
number of people who died as a
result of a cocaine overdose was 699 in
2004. In 1992 that number was 223.
 Between the years 2001 and 2005, the
number of Americans between the age of
50 and 59 who were using illegal drugs
rose from 2.5 percent to 4.7 percent.

46. Drug Addiction Facts Cont.
 Over
six million children in America live with at
least one parent who has a drug addiction.
 Since 1980, the number of deaths related to
drug overdoses has risen over 540 percent.
 The most commonly abused drug (other than
alcohol) in the United States by individuals over
the age of 12 is Marijuana, followed by
prescription painkillers, cocaine and
hallucinogens.

47. Drug Addiction Facts Cont.
 Each
year, drug abuse and drug addiction cost
employers over 122 billion dollar in lost
productivity time and another 15 billion dollars in
health insurance costs.
 Baltimore, Maryland has more per capita
individuals living with heroin addiction than any
other state in the U.S.
 Since 1990, the number of individuals who take
prescription drugs illegally is believed to have
risen by over 500 percent.

48. The End!