Generalist 1 Lab Final G & G Text Flashcards
What is a family narrative?
The story a family develops about itself, derived largely from its past history and is passed along from one generation to the next.
What does a family narrative do?
It defines the ways in which individuals and families deal with their lives based on the family’s constructions.
How can the family narrative negatively impact its members?
By preventing members from noticing other aspects of their lives or being able to see other behavioral options. These families typically construct a rationale for the continuation of undesirable behaviors and the lack of alternatives.
What does the postmodernist believe about the family narrative?
There is no “true” reality, only the family’s collectively agreed upon set of constructs, created through language and knowledge that is relational and generatively based, that the family calls reality.
Constructivist
Each family member constructs personalized views and interpretations of what they might be experiencing together.
What is the constructivist perspective on the family narrative?
Families tell themselves stories and develop beliefs about themselves which organize and help shape their lives. Can represent burdensome discourses which can lead them to repeat behaviors that are self-defeating due to the belief that they have limited options.
What are the 6 stages of the Family Life Cycle?
- Leaving home: single young adults
- The joining of families through marriage: the young couple
- Families with young children
- Families with adolescents
- Launching children and moving on
- Families in later life
The Key Principle of Leaving home: single young adults Stage
Accepting emotional and financial responsibility for self.
The Key Principle of the Joining of families through marriage: the new couple Stage
Commitment to new system
Key Principle for families with young children stage
Accepting new members into the system.
The Key Principle for families with adolescents stage
Increasing flexibility of family boundaries to permit children’s independence and grandparents’ frailties.
The Key Principle of launching children and moving on
Accepting a multitude of exits from and entries into family systems.
The Key Principle of families in later life stage
Accepting the shifting generational roles.
What are the stages of remarried family formation?
- Entering the new relationship.
- Conceptualizing and planning new marriage and family.
- Remarriage and reconstruction of family.
Marital quid pro-quo
A relationship with well formulated rules in which each partner gives something and receives something in return.
Redundancy Principle
A family interacts in a select few repetitive behavioral sequences when interacting with one another that determine the rules of the family. These rules determine the interactive sequences between family members.