Exam 1 Flashcards
Family Stressors
Vertical and horizontal stressors
Vertical Stressors
Historical and inherited from previous generations
Family patterns, myths, expectations, secrets, legacies
THE NARRATIVE
This is the hand we are dealt, sexism, poverty, racism
Horizontal Stressors
Event stressors
PRESENT
Developmental like life cycle transitions
Also unpredictable like an untimely dearth, accident, natural disaster, lottery
Family Life cycle stages (traditional)
- Married Couple
- Childbearing family
- Preschool children
- School children
- Teens
- Launching kids
- Middle aged parents
- Aging family members
Life cycle stage one, leaving home
-accept emotional and financial responsibility for ones self
Differentiate, develop peer friendships, reallign with FOO
Second Stage: Join families through marriage as a new couple
Commitment to new system
Marital system, negotiate intimacy, become we without losing I
Thirds FLC stage: fam with young kids
Accepting new members into system
Make space for kids, join in time rearing, new roles established, and not sacrificing couple
FLC fourth stage, fam with adolescents
Increasing flexibility of family boundaries to allow more independence and grandparent frailties
Shift in parent child relationships, look multiculturaly different, rule and boundaries being renegotiated
FLC fifth stage, launching of kids “empty nest”
Accepting multiple exits from and into system
Renegotiate marriage, develop adult to adult relationship with kids, death of parents, new family members
6ht stage FLC, families in later life
Accepting shift of generational roles
Maintain own and couple functioning as aging
Room for older generation and middle become more central
Retirement, widowhood, chronic illness
FLC stages for divorcing families
-decision to divorce
Planning breakup of system
Separation
Divorce
Accepting ones own part in the failure of the marriage and mourning loss of intact family.
Have to restricting marital and all relationships in fam
FLC stages remarried family
Enter new relationship
Conceptualize planning new fam and marriage
Openness to new fam and readiness to deal with complexities
FLC stages Single parent family
Some choosing this some not choosing
Added stress to “normal” cycle
Harder transitions
FLC stages, gay and lesbian family
Have to cope with larger stigma
Still marginalized
Pressure to remain secretive or closeted
Family life cycle
The series of longitudinal stages or events that mark a family’s life offering an organizing scheme for viewing the family as a system proceeding through time
Developmental tasks
Problems to be overcome and conflicts to be mastered at various stages of the life cycle
Enable movement to next stage
Circular causality
The view that causality is nonlinear, occurring instead within a relationship context and through a network of interacting loops
Any cause is seen as an effect of a prior cause, as in interactions within family
Constructivism
The belief that an individuals knowledge of reality result from his or her subjective perceiving and subsequent constructing or inventing of the world, rather than how to i world objectively exists (second order cybernetics)
Cybernetics
The study of methods of feedback control within a system, especially the flow of info through feedback loops.
Concerned with systemic processes: Info regulation Adaptation Self organization Self reproduction Strategic behavior Maintaining homeostasis
Double bind concept
Bateson, Lidz, Bowen
Contradictions in levels of messages, result in conflicting and contradictory messages. Believed at the time to cause schizophrenia
DOUBLE BIND: individual.child receives conflicting messages from the same person, result in in confusing messages/expressions of love/hate
No matter how the child responds, its “wrong”
Creates panic, rage, then withdrawal
Dyad
A liaison, temporary or permanent, between two persons
Ecosystem approach
A perspective that goes beyond intrafamilial relationships to attend to the family’s relationships with larger systems (school, court, healthcare, etc)
Ethnicity
Defining characteristics of a social group with shared cultural traditions that carry on over generations and is reinforced within the group
Feedback
Reinsertation into a system of the results of it’s past performance as a method of controlling the system.
First order cybernetics
Universal laws or codes were sought to explain what governs all systems.
Gregory bateson “ all changes can be understood as an effort to maintain some constancy” applied this scientific system to human communicatoon
Family system
A social and or biological construction made up of a set of people related by blood or intention
Defined as a whole made up of interacting parts
Wholeness
Elements of a system once combined produce an entity, a whole, that is greater than the sum of its parts
Movement of one part influences the whole
No element of a system can ever be understood in isolation since it never functions independently