Families face crises from their early foundation till their last stages. Family
crises are considered some of the special traits that families face have
increased whether these crises from internal factors or from external one;
families are disabled to face them. The element of the thesis have been
divided into three essential axis's as follows: The First Axis: Defining
crisis and its creation, dimension, stages, characteristics, symptoms,
sources and the techniques used to deal with it. A crisis is defined as a
human phenomenon and a part of life textile which arises at any moment
and under sudden circumstances that creates a kind of threat to a person
which must be dealt with to put an end to it.
A crisis arises when warnings and signals which appear before a crisis are
ignored. A crisis is characterized by many dimensions ; such as the time
dimension which specifies when a crisis has started and the predictions of
its continuity to be able to find suggestions to put an end it.
- The objective dimension which clarifies whether the crisis is social,
economical or political.
- The impact dimension and getting to know the direct and indirect
impact of a crisis.
- The place dimension in which we specify the place where the crisis
has taken place.
- The human dimension which includes specifying the people that the
crisis include.
As for the crisis stages, it passes by many stages such as: the shock
dimension and protest and breaking down and finally overcoming it.As for the crisis characteristics, it is characterized by the sudden factor and
complexity and lack of information which prevent the person from
specifying the right direction that he takes to solve the crisis.and feeling
tired and disable and worried and disturbance in the family relations and
social activities are symptoms of a crisis.
As for the sources of crises, they can be specified in the shallow
information and incorrect information and misevaluation and disvalue and
false interpretation of matters and stresses which people face and also
weakness of leadership skills and solidarity and repetition in performance
and unclearness of objectives.
Crisis can be dealt with whether by using traditional techniques such as
crisis escape or by jumping over crisis by pretending that a crisis has been
overcome or dealing with it using modern scientific techniques in facing
the crisis dimension and its danger and specifying the stage which the crisis
has reached and the factual interference to face it.
The second axis: Getting to know the family and its functions and
classification; so we defined family as a small group which has social roles
such as (husband – father – mother – son - daughter)it is usually as a result
of the marriage of a man and a woman and it is supposed to have children,
parents bear their responsibility.
Families have been classified into extended families which include two or
more generations and small families which includes a father and a mother
and unmarried children.
Families may face crises that can be managed and overcome after
appointing the objectives and arranging priorities and the initiative of
solving the crisis and flexibility and bearing responsibility.
The Third axis: The family crises nature of cancer breast patients such as
(social crises – psychological crises – economical crises – health crises)
cancer breast patient are exposed to mix of crises since the beginning of
discovering the disease passing by the different stage of cure, so they face
social crises as in the turbulence of everyday life and malady in marriage
relations and divorce and abandonment and anger and wife extreme
nervousness at nonsense and turbulences among family members as a result
of extreme exhaust and nervous effort and long-time diseases and children
life turbulence and prevailing chaos in the family as a whole. One of the
psychological crises that patients are exposed to is when they have extreme
grief and fear of death and pain and worry and depression and being unable
to believe what has happened, and the status of the patient gets worse when
a husband mistreats her and not accepting the changes that happened to her
and neglecting her, so patients must be helped psychological to overcome
these psychological crises either by the psychological specialists or by
family and friends support. As for the economical crises, they are
exemplified in the extreme expenses of cure that families bear and finally
the health crises that appear in all stages of cure passing by surgery and its
pain and then the appearance of side effects of medicine that appear in
tiredness and pain in muscles and vomiting and mouth ulcer and hair loss
and early menopause and nail and skin changes.
As a result of facing all of these crises affects the family greatly because of
the patient’s disability of bearing all of these symptoms, so she depends
mainly on others to help her with her responsibilities and family duties
which makes her feel falling short of duty.