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Family Life Cycle (What is it? (Humans do not grow and develop in…
Family Life Cycle
What is it?
Humans do not grow and develop in isolation but in family systems; where we become the individual we are.
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Divides the family experiences into stages over the life span & describes changes in family structure, developmental tasks and roles during each stage.
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Stages of Life Cycle
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Developmental Tasks
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join in childrearing, financial, household tasts
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Emotional: ↑flexibility of family's boundaries to include children's independence & grandparents' frailties
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- Launching Children & Moving On
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Developmental tasks
maintain own & couple functioning & interests in face of physiological decline; explore new familial & social role options
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deal w loss of spouse, siblings, & other peers & prepare for own death. Life review & integration
Transitions
Development
Given enough stress on the horizonal axis, any family will appear symptomatic & dysfunctional.
When horizontal interacts with a vertical stress, a quantum leap in the anxieties occurs.
Horizontal Stressors
Anxieties produced by stresses as it moves forward thru time, coping with developmental changes & transitions of the FLC & unpredictable events that may disrupt the cycle process
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Vertical Stressors
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e.g. family attitudes, beliefs, taboos, expectations etc
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