Families under war: Stresses and strains of Israeli families during the Gulf war

Lavee, Yoav; Ben-David, Amith

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“…Most studies that have been conducted on issues relating macroprocesses to microsystems have focused on the individual, with very few attempts to look at the family as a unit of analysis (BenDavid & Lavee, 1992;Lavee & Ben-David, 1993;Wamboldt et al, 1991).…”

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“…Finally, this study brings attention to the need to compare and examine similarities and differences in families' reactions to different stressful conditions, such as acute war situations (Ben-David & Lavee, 1992;Lavee & Ben-David, 1993) and prolonged, politically induced stressful conditions. There is evidence that some of the dimensions are similar-for example, emotional atmosphere, family organization, and interpersonal interaction.…”

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“…Role organization in the family has usually been seen as task-oriented and behavioral in nature (Lavee & Ben-David, 1993;Stetz et al, 1986). However, in ongoing stress situations, family members usually describe their main coping mechanism as a need to continue living in a businessas-usual manner.…”

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Between war and Peace: Interactional Patterns of Couples Under Prolonged Uncertainty

Ben-David¹,

Lavee²

1996

The American Journal of Family Therapy

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A s part of a larger prospective study of Israeli and Palestinian families during the peace process, qualitative analysis of data from a subsample of 30 couples was conducted. Couples were classified by frequency of communication about the situation, topics most often discussed, degree of consensus on major issues, emotional rule diferentiation, and changes in relationship. Based on these classifications, couples were mapped on a multidimensional grid. The plot revealed a variety of interactional patterns in couples under prolonged environmental stress. Couples who reported a deterioration of their relationship had more disagreements regarding the meaning of the peace process and its consequences fur the family, and were more concerned with economic issues or the situational ambiguity. Partners with a stronger ideological orientation tended to agree more often and to report an increase in cohesiveness. Theoretical and methodological implications are discussed in terms of the constructivist view of the family stress process.On September 13, 1993, an agreement of principles was signed to start a process which was eventually to have culminated in peace in the Middle East. The initial stage was to begin in the Gaza Strip and the Jericho area with self-rule regime which was to be the beginning of Palestinian selfgovernment in those areas. The pact, also called the Gaza and Jericho First Agreement, set provisions for Palestinian autonomy in Gaza and the West Bank. The agreement left open many questions and issues which were to be settled in further negotiations. Not only did the two sides need to wait and see how the initial autonomy would work, but there also was concern about the fierce disagreement that surrounded those issues. Thus, discussions on one such issue-the future of Israeli settlements in these areas-were postponed for a number of years.These initial steps affected, first and foremost, those Israeli families in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip who had resided there for different periods, ranging from a few months to twenty-five years. As might be expected, the issues involved were dealt with in different fashions by the different families, despite the fact that the issues themselves-i.e., dealing with the uncertainty and the unknown, obtaining information and assistance, making decisions about the future, and obtaining help-were virtually uniform for all the families involved in each community.In the past, clinicians and social scientists have taken the opportunity in such naturally occurring stressful events to study the relations among individual personality characteristics, characteristics of the social environment, and adequacy of adjustment to the stressful event (Antonovsky &

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1996

The American Journal of Family Therapy

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“…Like victims of torture, hostage-taking, community terrorism, political internment, the POW experience, a community under scud attacks from Iraq forces (Lavee and Ben-David, 1993), and of "ethnic cleansing" (Weine, Becker, Mcglashan, Laub, Lazrove, Vojvoda, and Hyman, 1995), the Oklahoma City disaster appears to have been orchestrated by human beings whose intent was to harm innocent people, while they devastate local communities. This intentionality factor is associated with the meaning victims give to the event, and has implications in terms of the nature and course of recovery and integration processes after mass traumatic events.…”

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Mass traumatic terror in Oklahoma City and the phases of adaptational coping, part I: Possible effects of intentional injury/harm on victims' post-traumatic responses

Parson

1995

J Contemp Psychother

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“…All members of the family were compelled to remain in closed quarters during an attack alert until they learned of the all clear by radio or television, a circumstance that was highly stressful for some families (Lavee & Ben-David, 1993).…”

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Israel and the gulf war: The major events and selected studies

Milgram

1994

Anxiety, Stress, & Coping

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Families under war: Stresses and strains of Israeli families during the Gulf war

Cited by 20 publications

References 22 publications

Between war and Peace: Interactional Patterns of Couples Under Prolonged Uncertainty

Between war and Peace: Interactional Patterns of Couples Under Prolonged Uncertainty

Mass traumatic terror in Oklahoma City and the phases of adaptational coping, part I: Possible effects of intentional injury/harm on victims' post-traumatic responses

Israel and the gulf war: The major events and selected studies

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