Psychosocial Stressors Within the Family System
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Psychosocial Stressors Within the Family System (Obj. 6.1 and 6.2)
Lila Matthews
College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Grand Canyon University
PCN 670 Development through Childhood and Adolescence
Instructor: Angela Ramirez Herrera
August 24, 2023
Psychosocial Stressors within the Family System
When it comes to psychosocial stressors it can affect any family on a tremendous level.
These stressors are categorized or described as different factors that a person’s mind has
determined to need immediate action in order to help defuse the situation. Some examples of
psychosocial stressors deal with a family that is in a lower socioeconomic status, the
environmental factors, mental health, disabilities, and or disruptions that have transpired amongst
the family. Psychosocial stressor can affect a range of individuals in a family even down to a
child. The way that a child is mainly affected by psychosocial stressor is by them suffering from
developmental delays, negative health impacts, poor school performance, behavioral outburst,
and falling behind in school causing them to drop out.
Factors that can Impact a Child Or Adolescents Well-Being
Some factors that really trigger disruptions within a family dynamic is that of divorce, a
newly blended family, and only child family bringing in a new child through adoption or having
a new child, and many more. These different impacts can cause or a child to suffer from long
term and short-term impacts that could range from abnormal erratic behaviors, short term
memory loss from situations like divorce or a new child, to long terms impacts include disorders
such as anxiety, stress, and or depressive episode disorders from situations like the death or loss
of a parent, death or loss of a sibling, and or new blended family. Children that are within
household where both biological parent are not physical or emotionally present though situations
like divorce, blended families, and or single parent households tend to display more of an
adjustment period and have academia barriers than a child who sees both his or her parents still
together and thriving (Demo & Acock, 1996, page 4).
When it comes to more recent environmental factors that our family systems have
suffered from along with their children would be that of COVID – 19. COVID – 19 had such a
huge negative impact on a family’s day to day, dynamic, and how they handled certain situations.
Families dealt with situations like workplace closures, building a workplace in the home, school
closures, building a school workplace in the home, isolating from one another if COVID came in
the home, being put on restrictions from going out into the community, and being separated from
many other family members and loved ones due to the virus. Separation is considered a huge
disruption causing for detachment to take place in many forms amongst a family. When schools
and workplaces had no choice but to closed this happened to impact the economy and they world
on a huge level. For example at the beginning of covid jobs were letting go of workers that they
felt were not needed in order to cut back on funding and having to pay employees, some families
did not know how they were going to make ends meet, some families did not know when their
next meal would be on the table, and some did not know if or when they were going to be
evicted from their homes. “For parents, a high ‘pandemic burden’ (their perception of living
conditions under COVID as very stressful) risks limiting their ability to fulfill the caregiving
role, especially if additional challenges, e.g., increased childcare demands or parental mental
health problems are present.” (Buechel et al, 2022).
When considering the idea of poverty for a family system and how it impacts them a lot
of families suffered through the issue of poverty due to the pandemic. Yes a lot of resources were
given throughout the pandemic with rental help, utility bill help, health insurance, and food
stamps provided by the government. These are some of the things that the government offered to
help many families that were in need. But there were those families where they were too far
behind on their bills and may not have qualified for certain resources due to they may not have
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lacked the income but they got sick and were not able to work. Once the world began to open
back up and courts started working through eviction notices a lot of families began to become
unstable and fall short of not having housing. “The adverse health effects of housing insecurity
were evident before the emergence of COVID-19, but the pandemic-induced financial crisis for
low- and middle-income households has increased housing precarity and related health
risks.”(Himmelstein & Desmond, 2021).
The Significance of Psychosocial Stressors within a family and how they impact academic
performance Career readiness
When it comes to the psychosocial stressors of a family and how it impacts a child
academic achievements a milestones, can be potentially based on “The effects of household
structure on children’s educational outcomes can be shaped by numerous family factors.”
(Monserud & Elder, 2011). In other words, there can be many reason as to why a child education
is affected in more ways than one behind a family’s dynamic, economic status, and how they
communicate amongst each other in their environmental household. When it comes to a child
career readiness “ One of the main developmental tasks of adolescence and early adulthood is
identity formation, or the integration of the current, past, and future selves” (Erickson, 1968),
this can be quite daunting for a child coming into young adult hood who has suffered through
psychosocial stressors in their life and or family, the main reason for this is because “an
important component of this process is the development of plans for the future, including
vocational and career plans” (Nurmi, 1991).
Depending on the families social economic status
children are not taught about trades when they want to continue on their education in a non-
institutional way and or they are not going to school to get the proper resources needed in order
to take the next step for their career readiness path.
Support Services or Interventions That May Improve Outcomes
When it comes to the psychosocial stressor the best support and intervention is going to
be behavioral health services, that look at counseling individually and amongst the family. This
is very important especially with where our world is at today and the struggles we see amongst
families and our youth. We have a lot more children without detention centers that are suffering
amongst crime, choices, and decisions that they are making due to the fact of how they are
heavily impacted by their families psychosocial stressors and the impact of al social economic
statuses, that our first line of attack must be giving our youth back their voices, and families a
chance to relearn one another within this world no longer being stuck in one house hold but not
back into the communities trying to find a new norm.
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