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Provides Emotional/Attachment bonds which are critical for good health
gives us identity and purpose (via roles), and impact development of self-esteem
By nature, we are interdependent beings
Family relationships provide a resource for dealing with stress |
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uncertainty about who is in the family and who isn't
Can occur following divorce or other family units similar |
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| Networks of people who share their lives over long periods of time bound by ties of marriage, blood, law, or commitment, legal or otherwise, who consider themselves a family and who share a significant history and anticipated future of functioning in a family relationship |
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Polarization of experiences today creates new problems due to women's working and child care
A family never existed, and diversity in family forms has always been the "norm"
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| Parents and children from unity of family |
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| Single-parent family/Primary parent family |
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| One parent and one (or more) children |
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| two adults and their children, some of whom are not from the union of their relationship |
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| Extended/Intergenerational family |
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| Addition of blood relatives, other than the parents, to the everyday life of a child unit |
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| A pari, or group, of people, some or all of whom are unrelated biologically or legally, who share a commitment and consider themselves family |
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| married couples who are childfree, cohabitating homosexual couples, and gay male and lesbian partners who consider themselves family |
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| a symbolic transactional process of creating and sharing meanings |
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| communicating about our communication |
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2 Levels of Communication:
Content message
Relational message |
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Content: What is said
Rational: How it is said |
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| emotional bonding that family members experience, including separateness and correctedness |
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| Family adaptability/Flexibility |
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| amount of change in leadership |
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Disengaged
Separated
Connected
Enmeshed |
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Rigid
Structured
Flexible
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| Need for family members to spontaneously experience interdependence and connection or openness and privacy |
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| family in which a person is raised |
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| When individuals come together to form relationships, what is created is larger and more complex (the whole is greater than the sum of its parts) |
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| The WHOLE is greater than the sum of its parts |
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| Family Systems have interrelated parts that mutually influence one another |
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| Although systems are capable of cahnge, they tend to seek homeostasis |
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| Change-promoting feedback |
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| A system perspective implies a move awya from thinking bout cause and effect |
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| System thinking (non-linear) understands that eery behavioral response is also a stimulus that itself elicits a response |
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| Individuals make and remake their social worlds through their interactions and at same time, they are made and remade by said social settings |
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| Family life is characterized by ongoing tensions |
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| what counts as what in communication |
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| acceptable communication behavior (what nad how) |
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| Purpose of fun or suprise, usually time limited |
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| Promote necessary boundaries |
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| Poisons family relationships; key stories that remain untold and unavailable |
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| Put people in immediate physical jeopardy |
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| Sharing a secret increases cohesiveness |
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| Helps avoid negative judgment |
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| Protect family members from stressors |
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| information seen as personal or irrelevant to others |
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