Week 9 Crisis

A crisis can be defined as having some sort of trauma involved, being unsatisfied with your current situation, something urgent, something that puts the family at risk, instability, and it can be personal. With all this in mind many people will see a crisis as something bad and dangerous. How do you view it? Can you see the opportunity in the crisis? If not, hopefully you'll be able to learn to.
Think of a crisis you have had. What did your family do? Did it pull apart or grow closer together? What were the persons thoughts about the crisis? What were your own thoughts? Take a few minutes to think about this.
Reuben Hill used, what he called, an ABCX model. This is how he set up his model:

A (Actual Event)

B (Both Resources and Responses)

+C (Cognition, meaning their thoughts on the event, how did they define it)

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X (total experience)

So, using this model think about the crisis that you were before thinking about. What was the actual event? What were your resources and how did your family use them? And, like before, what were your thoughts and your families' thoughts about the crisis? How did they define it? 

I'm sure we all want to be able to come out better from a crisis like some families can. But how do they do it? They probably have resilience, understanding of their responsibilities and accountability  they know how to use their resources and have resources, also, they may have already had experience. 

Something else you can do is change our thinking about the crisis (cognition). If you can train yourself to think more positively then your more likely to come out better. Instead of thinking, "this is the end of the world" try to think "We can do this together. It will be okay." Remember, the mind believes what you tell it.