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19 Cards in this Set
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Family Systems Theory
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Everything that happens to any family member has an impact on everyone else in the family. Because family members are interconnected and operate as a group, the group is called a family system.
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Family Strengths Framework
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Focuses on how couples and families succeed rather than on why they fail from a global perspective. Commitment,
Appreciation and affection Positive communication Enjoyable time together Spiritual well being Ability to cope with stress and crises |
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Family Development Framework
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Primarily interested in how partners and family members deal with various roles and developmental tasks within the marriage and family as they move through various stages of the life cycle. The family development framework assumes that the more efficient a family is at completing these tasks, the more successful the development of the various family members will be.
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Symbolic Interaction Framework
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Focuses on symbols which emerge from shared meanings and interactions
Focuses on how individuals learn cultural values and roles in the family Focuses on roles and our perceptions and shared meanings Focuses on how we define situations and interactions |
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Social Construction Framework
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Human beings are profoundly immersed in the social world; our understanding of this world and beliefs about this world are social products. Humans immersed in the social world
Humans are products of social world Understandings of the world and families are social products Postmodernism Multiple perspectives versus “one” truth Social world can change—families can change |
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Feminist Framework
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The notion that women are exploited, devalued, and oppressed and that society should commit to empowering women and changing their oppressed condition.
Assumes women are exploited, de-valued, and oppressed Gender central focus Challenge traditional roles Men=instrumental role Women=expressive role Commitment to empowering women |
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Conceptual Framework Theory
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A set of interconnected ideas, concepts, and assumptions that helps organize thinking from a particular perspective.
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Family System Boundaries
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Systems are connected and separated from other systems by boundaries. The notion of a boundary also implies a hierarchy of interconnected systems, each system being separated by invisible boundaries from other smaller or larger systems. Considering the family, there is a boundary between the family and the larger kin system and a boundary between parents and the children.
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Enmeshed Relationship
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emphasize togetherness: very high levels of closeness, loyalty, and dependance on one another. Enmeshed relationships are often typical of couple in love. When this level of intimacy occurs between a parent and a child the relationship often becomes problematic.
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Cohesive relationships
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Place more emphasis on togetherness and less on separateness. There is some loyalty to the relationship, and there is often more dependence than independence.
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Connected Relationships
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Place more emphasis on the individual than on the relationship. Levels of closeness are often low to moderate in a connected family system, with lower levels of loyalty; there is often more independence than dependence and more separateness than togetherness.
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Disengaged Relationships
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Those with a low level of cohesion. Emphasize the individual. There is often very little closeness, a lack of loyalty, high independence, and high separateness.
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Extreme Togetherness
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Too much togetherness can lead to relationship fusion, or enmeshment. People "in love" often feel they need each other. Although this feels good for awhile, soon the enmeshment begins to prickle. After too much togetherness, lovers can get on each other's nerves.
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Extreme Separateness
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Lead to a disengaged relationship. Has very little emotional closeness. There is so much separateness that each person is mainly focused on himself or herself and not on each other. Difficult to build and maintain intimacy.
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Family System
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One of the four major components of the sociocultural context in which families live; focuses on the interconnectedness of family members
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Role
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The expected behavior of a person or group in a given social category, such as husband, wife, supervisor, or teacher.
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Flexibility
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A family's ability to change and adapt in the face of stress in the face of stress or crisis; one of the three dimensions of the Couple and Family Map
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Self-Disclosure
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Revealing to another person personal information or feelings that that individual could not otherwise learn.
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Family Science
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An interdisciplinary field whose primary focus is to better understand families in order to enhance the quality of family life. Professionals whose main focus of applied or action research is the family tend to call themselves family scientists; those who develop educational programs for families sometimes call themselves family life educators or family educators those who work clinically with troubled families are called marriage and family therapists.
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