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Chapter 3 Flashcards

1
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A core family unit of husband, wife, and their child/children.

Traditional view of family system

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Nuclear family

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A family that includes one parent, either biological or adoptive who is solely responsible for care of self and child or children

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Single-parent family

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A family created when two people marry and at least one of them was married previously and has a child or children

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Blended Family

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Both husband and wife in the labor force

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Dual-career family

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When participation in one area of a person’s life affects another part.

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Spillover

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Couples who consciously decide over time to not have children or remain child free as a result of chance or biology.

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Child free family

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A family with a child that has a disability that may face more stress than the average family system and may need to devote a greater adjustment to their work and daily schedule.

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Special needs or dev. Disabled child family

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A type of family that is made up of a same-sex couple without children or with children from a previous marriage, adoption, or as a result of artificial insemination.

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LGBT Family

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A family system in which it is headed by someone 65 years or older

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Aging Famiy

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A type of family made up of households that include a child, a parent, and a grandparent.

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Multigenerational Family

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Grandparents taking care of their children’s children as a result of a variety of reasons.

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Grandparent Headed family

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A type of family who may be married or may have children that are enlisted in the military.

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Military Family

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13
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An interactive process associated with positive relationships and outcomes

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Health

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Involves staying loyal to the family and its members through both good and adverse life events

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Commitment

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15
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An event that is predictable and actually occurs

EX: finding employment, leaving home, getting married

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Expected Life Stressors

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Things that occur which are passive and are events that do not happen as envisioned or expected

Ex: failure of a couple to have healthy children or don’t reach financial goals in life.

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Nonevents

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  1. When a person is physically absent yet psychologically present
    Ex: child given up for adoption, divorced father no longer lives at home
  2. Someone being physically present but psychologically absent
    Ex: a parent with Alzheimer’s, family member w/ sub. Use D/O
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Ambiguous Losses

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Members from different generations, such as a mother and daughter, colluding as a team

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Intergenerational coalitions

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Two individuals, such as a mother and father, arguing over and interacting in regard to a third person, such as a rebellious son, instead of attending to their relationship

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Conflictual triangles

20
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A type of stressor that brings past and present issues to bear reciprocally, such as family attitudes, expectations, secrets, and legacies.

Historical and inherited from previous generations

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Vertical stressor

21
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Stressors that are aspects of life that relate to the present, such as cohabitation or marriage at an early age, teenage pregnancy, and financial insecurity.

Developmental and unfolding

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Horizontal Stressors

22
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The transition from one stage of life to another, such as going from being a new couple to being a couple with a new child.

Unpredictable: untimely death, chronic illness, or loss of job.

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Life cycle transitions

23
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Unpredictable aspect of the life cycle.

Random, chance circumstances of life, some fortunate and others not.

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Happenstance

24
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Sudden, overwhelming, and often dangerous, either to one’s self or significant other.

Life-Threatening/ Life-Ending

Usually horrific in nature

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Physical/ Psychological trauma

25
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Events that affect a family or individual that can occur in an unsettling manner.

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Success and failure

26
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When either a man or woman can work outside the home and take care of children

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Post gender relationship

27
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What are qualities of a healthy marriage

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  • Committment to family/Indv.
  • Appreciation for each other
  • Effective communication
  • High degree of religious/spiritual orientation
  • Ability to deal with crisis in positive manner
  • Encouraging
  • Clear roles
28
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A type of stressor relations to age and life-stages.

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Developmental stressors

29
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Interpersonal stressor such as dealing with feelings.

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Situational Stressors

30
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What are the most prevalent stressors occurring within families?

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  1. Economics
  2. Children’s bh.
  3. Insufficient couple time
  4. Communicating with children
  5. Insufficient personal time
  6. Insufficient family time
31
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A relationship in which each partner is versatile and tries to become competent in doing necessary or needed tasks

Often called a “post gender” relationship

Major Difficulty: When partners do not minimize differences will COMPETE with each other.

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Symmetrical Relationship

32
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Fam. Member roles defined rigidly

DIFFERENCES maximized

If members fail to do task such as make decisions or discipline children, other members affected negatively.

Traditional Gender roles

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Complementary relationship

33
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Term used to describe a tendency to MOVE TOWARD family closeness

A

Centripetal

34
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Directed away from center

Term used to describe the tendency to MOVE AWAY from the family i.e. FAMILY DISENGAGEMENT

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Centrifugal

35
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Emotional Bonding

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Family cohesion

36
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The adaptability to be flexible and change

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Family adaptability

37
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What are the characteristics of a family that can cope with stress?

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Ability to ID stressor
Ab. To view the situation as a fam. Prob. NOT blame other member
Solution oriented rather than blame oriented approach
Tolerance for other family members Clear expression of commitment and affection other f.memb.
Open/Clear comm among members
Evidence of high family cohesion
Evidence of considerable role flexibility
App. utilization of resources inside and outside fam.
Lack physical violence
Lack substance abuse

38
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Provides theoretical framework for understanding the complex interaction between situations in a family resolutions over time rather than those geared to a single happening.

Addresses the issue that no event occurs in isolation and introduces concept that stressors pile up.

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Double ABCX model

39
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A concept that explains how two families may perceive an event differently depending on the resources available to each family.

EX: an affluent family may experience little impact or meaning because a family has more support and resources to handle a situation vs a family with limited support may experience a considerable crisis because members may not have access to supports.

A

ABCX model

40
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Families that are ____ to adjust to new circumstances try the same solutions over and over again or intensify nonproductive behaviors.

A

Unable

41
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What are two types of change that can work for families but may need to be deployed at different times?

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  1. First-order change

2. Second-Order Change

42
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An alteration that occurs to a family that is superficial in nature.

EX: moving dinner from being served at 6pm to 8pm does not delay an argument that may occur due to dinner still being served.

Think non-productive behaviors

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First-order change

43
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A type of meta change in which a changing of rules sometimes referred to as “A CHANGE OF CHANGE”

A new set of rules and behaviors is introduced into the existing behavioral repertoire, often in an abrupt way.

the out come is that a qualitatively new bx. Occurs.

Think productive

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Second-Order change

*Think Death Star blowing up to create new

44
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What are coping strategies to relieve stress in well-functioning families?

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Recognizing that stress may be positive and lead to change.

Realizing that stress is usually temporary.

Focusing on working together to find solutions.

Realizing that stress is a normal part of life.

Changing the rules to deal with stress and celebrating victories over events that led to stress.

45
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What do family therapist learn from studying healthy families?

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Appreciate the complexity of families.

Be less prone to pathologize families.

Realize that health is developmental and
situational.

Be aware of families’ strengths and deficits.

Be more educational in assisting families with
problems.

46
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What are four main types of stressors?

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  1. Vertical
  2. Horizontal
  3. Predictable
  4. Unexpected
47
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What are three ways in which a family is organized:

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  1. Symmetrical/complementary
  2. Centripetal/centrifugal
  3. Cohesive/adaptable

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