What is the term used to describe the low-level, lurking, residual state that surfaces when a situation activates suppressed feelings, behaviors, and cognitions associated with the original crisis?

The term is called family transcrisis

Explanation:

Family transcrisis occur when unresolved feelings, behaviors, of a crisis that have been lying dormant reemerges due to situations that reactivated these reactions which is not related to the current circumstances.Egs of some transcrisis statements you can hear are " just like before"

"We just cannot get this right"

A transcrisic most times reacts to a traumatic event which had been repressed and directs the reaction to another event.

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