Reconceptualizing Family Stress

Abstract

Hill's (1949) model is the organizing framework for an examination of critical issues outstanding in the area of families under stress. Components of the model are identified and discussed, with the conclusion that, although the model has been heuristic, new models are needed. It is suggested that understanding of the stress process depends on recognition that all levels of the social system are interdependent and that stress occurs in a unique and influential sociohistorical context. A contextual model is presented as an alternative to the ABCXframework. Arguments are made for distinguishing between individual and familial levels of the social system, for including levels more macro than the family, and for anticipating a variety of adjustment patterns. An example of research in family stress that operationalizes the contextual perspective is presented.

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