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Conceptual Frameworks For Understanding Families - Coggle Diagram
Conceptual Frameworks
For Understanding
Families
Family Systems
Theory
Belief that anything that happens to a member of a family also affects other members of the family. All members are interconnected.
Created by family therapists.
Belief that changes on an individual level were ineffective because changes need to happen within other areas of the family or system to work.
Muli-leveled systems including
subsystems and
suprasystems involved.
Interdependence of parts
International Family
Strengths Framework
Focuses on why families succeed
rather than why they fail.
Promotes and incorporates appreciation
and affection.
Focuses on a family's strengths and a strong family serves as a model for troubled families.
Qualities of strong families include:
Positive
communication, enjoyable time together, and spiritual well being.
Strong families resolve
conflict together and
manage stress.
Family Development
Framework
Originally designed to describe and explain the process of change in couples and families.
New stage of development: Emerging Adulthood (18-25 yrs of age)
Focuses on how members of a family deal with different roles and developmental tasks within the family as they move through different stages of the life cycle.
Encourages attention to process.
Views the family as a dynamic system.
Symbolic Interaction
Framework
Focuses on symbols-based
on shared meanings and interactions.
Explains how people learn
through communicating with each other
about their various roles in society.
Embodies Cooley's Looking Glass Self
perspective (Learning about oneself through interactions with others).
Looks at roles within society and the family.
Social Construction
Framework
One's understanding and beliefs of this
world and beliefs are social products.
Postmodernism; multiple truths
and perspectives.
Individuality is difficult
because we live in a
social environment.
Feminist
Framework
Women's experiences are
are central, not less than
that of men's.
Belief that women are oppressed, exploited, and devalued in a society that should commit to empowering women.
Feminists challenge the
definition of family based
on traditional roles.