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| Two or more members who self-identify as a "family" and interact and depend on one another socially, emotionally, and financially. |
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| The family that reared the individual. |
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| family adopted through marriage or cohabitation |
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| Centers on the recognition that changes that occur in one member affect the entire family. Persons are "open systems." View the family as a unit and focus on observing the interaction among family members rather than studying family members individually. |
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| Each system contains a boundary that affects how the outside world is allowed to interact with the family members. Ideally semipermeable. |
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| Necessary parts of family functioning. Permanent or temporary relationship part of yet separate from main family system. |
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| An alternate adaption that invovles the use of unhealthy or abnormal behaviors to adapt to family crisis. Examples: enabling and codependency. |
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| The idea that the family moves through developmental stages with tasks that need to be completed before moving on to the next stage. A family may be in more than one stage at a time. Some stages: beginning families, childbearing stage, preschool stage, school-age/adolescent/teenage stages, launching, middle age, retirement. |
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| Structural-Functional Theory |
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| Focuses on the functioning of the family and the roles assumed by each family member to promote family function. Some roles: provider, housekeeper, child-caregiver, socializer, sexual partner, therapist, kinship. |
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| Asserts that emotional problems result from the way people interact with each other in the context of family. Patterns of family communication reveal much about the family. |
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| group theory applied to families: rules of conduct, roles, goals, expectations, chores, curfew, etc. Norming vs. Storming. |
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Authoritarian/Dictatorial.
Laissez-faire/permissive.
Authoritative/democratic. |
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| Qualitative tools (survey) |
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| assess the description and depth of family experiences |
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| Quantitative tools (survey) |
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| measure the frequency with which behaviors or situations exist. |
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| A set of symbols that is used to illustrate the present family structure and compare generations within the same family. |
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| Tool that displays the various outside systems used by the family (job, school, church, other institutions). |
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| Occurs when two family members focus on or team up against a third family member or third person outside the family (therapist, police officer). |
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| describes the changes in one's cultural pattern to match those of the host society. |
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| The process in which the family loses its unique cultural identity and identifies instead with the prevailing dominant culture. |
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