Family Stress and Coping 

             A ctual Event - 

             B ehavorial Responses - How well we                       use our resources

             C ogntions- How a Family defines Crisis 

  Total e X perience 

We learned the ABC X model of crisis. We were asked to write down several personal life experiences or events where we may have seen coping taking place or had to use it. How do we deal with stress, how do we handle situations? 

Brother Williams shared a very precious family experience of his own where his parents actually lost their first child just shortly after he was born. What a heart wrenching time for young parents to deal with a newborns death. They both dealt with it differently and separately. Thus creating a huge wedge between them. Years later they had another son pass away. How tragic for a family. However this time the family pulled together not apart. They met in a family council together. Just the family and nobody else. They discussed they planned they submitted their will to the Lord and grew together as husband and wife and children. Such a precious example of An Actually Event and Responding in such a way the behavioral of at the utmost of wellness. And they didn't let this event define them or beat them.