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For both models, resources to adapt to stress are prominent features. Because both are covered in more depth earlier in the current volume, we only briefly describe them here. The A in the ABC-X model represents the stressful event, the B represents the resources that families have to respond to said event, the C represents the perspective of the event that the family has, and “X” represents the resultant crises that the family experiences having undergone the stressful event. An extension of this model was put forth by McCubbin and Patterson (1983) and essentially has the same components except it adds to it the fact that families can experience multiple stressors overtime. One of the assumptions of the ABC-X model is that families experience a stressful event, they address it or adapt and move on. However, many would agree that families can have chronic stressors or that one stress can lead to another stress and this causes what is known as stress pileup. Thus, a new model was needed to account for the multiple stressors that families can experience, the demand on existing resources from previous or other stressors family experience, how the new plus existing stressors changes the perspective of the current stressful event, and the accumulation of family adjustments to the combined stressors (McCubbin & Patterson, 1983).