Family Flashcards
Autonomy
Your independence in your thoughts and behaviors within a marriage relationship.
Concept Orientation
Freedom of Expression is encouraged, communication is frequent and family life is pleasurable.
Family
Two or more people and sometimes kids, that sometimes live together and rely on each other for various things.
Genogram
Pictorial representation of a family across generations
Ideology of Traditonalism
Marriages marked by a more traditional, conservative perspective of marriage.
Independents
Couples that have high levels of interdependence, unconventional ideology, high levels of conflict engagement.
Launching Stage
When late adolescents leave the parental home ad venture out into the world as young singles themselves
Seperates
Couples that have low interdependence, conventional ideology, and low levels of conflict.
Sibling Hostility
Sibling Behaviours cause trouble, get into fights, teasing, name-calling, stealing
Sibling Warmth
Sharing secrets, helping each other, teaching each other, showing physical affection
Socio-orientation
Similarity is valued over individuality and self-expression, harmony is preferred over expression.
System
Sets of element standing in interrelation
Third-Culture
When a couple negotiates their unique cultural differences, creating a third or hybrid culture between them.
Togathereness
Complementary, universal, biological, life force, that propels, organisms towards relationships, attachments connects
Undifferentiated space
The degree to which spouses see things as theirs.
Interdependence Characteristic
If one part doesn’t work, the rest don’t work.
Wholeness Characteristic
Can’t Understand the family dynamic from one situation
Patterns/irregularities Characteristic
Rules & norms
Interactive Complexity Characteristic
interactions are complex and stem from the system itself
Openness Characterstic
How open a family is to external information
Complex relationships Characteristic
Relationships are entangled
Equifinality Characteristic
Any starting point can result in a family
Harmonious Sibling Relationship
high warmth, low hostility
Hostile Sibling Relationship
Low warmth, high hostility
Uninvolved sibling Relationship
Low warmth, low hostility
Affect Intense sibling Relatoinship
high Warmth, High hostility
Nuclear Family
Two parents and at least one child
Extended Family
Additional Family members
Blended Families
Stepfamilies
Cohabitating Couples Families
Living Togather
Family Communication Patterns
Beliefs about how families should interact that guide IPC
Movable Space
Less rigid about space
Variable time
Schedules change for specific reasons
Flexible Energy
some situations require more
Fixed Space
Strict rules for use of rooms
Regular time
Strict Rules for time use
Steady Energy
Constant Energy overtime, even in crisis
Dispersed Space
Space is unclear
Irregular time
no schedules
