For the week Monday November 5 to Friday November 9, we learned a lot about family crisis. We learned how families respond to these different crisis, and how crisis affects the family. We learned that crisis necessitates change. Furthermore, we also learned that in a crisis, it creates stressors. We also learned about a trick to remember when we are talking about a crisis in a family and what a crisis does to a family. The little sign is ABC and X. A stands for stressor, (or it cant stand for Actual Event), B stands Resources, (or Both Resources and Responses), C stands for Perception of the stressor, (or it can stand for Cognition), and X stands for Total Experience. This ABC and X helped me understand how crisis affects a family. We learned that its not so much about the crisis itself, but we learned that its about how we respond to the crisis. And how we respond to crisis will result in the Total Experience. How we respond to the crisis will determine our outcome after the crisis. We will either grow and learn the crisis and grow stronger as a family, or we will remain about the same (meaning we didn't learn a lot but we made it out okay as a family and it didn't have a tremendous impact on the family too, but they didn't come out worse), or the last possible outcome is that we become worse. Meaning, that the crisis is very hard on a family and they didn't grow together as a family. They are more divided and they didn't learn much. The crisis had a negative impact on the family. These were some of the things that I learned about crisis and how crisis affects a family. I hope that when I face a crisis that I will learn and grow a lot from it and come out as a better person. I learned that it is not so much about the crisis, but how I respond to the crisis that makes the impact on my life. These were the things that I learned this week about crisis in a family.