Week 1: Reflection Paper

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Family Therapy: An Overview

8th edition

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The following slides follow a rough outline of each chapter in the text. We recommend that you use these as a skeleton outline for your lectures and amend them to fit your personal teaching

style and pedagogical preferences.

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Adopting a Family Relationship Framework

• What Is a Family?

• Family Systems: Fundamental Concepts • Enabling

• Disabling

• Today’s Families: A Pluralistic View

Adopting a Family Relationship Framework

• Family Structure • Basic characteristics

• Interactive patterns

• Family Narratives and Assumptions

• Family Resiliency/Therapist Resiliency

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Adopting a Family Relationship Framework

• Gender Roles and Gender Ideology • Men

• Women

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Adopting a Family Relationship Framework

• Cultural Diversity and the Family

• Ethnicity

• Social Class

• Impact of Race, Ethnicity, Class on Therapist

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Adopting a Family Relationship Framework

• The Family Therapy Perspective • Origins of family therapy

• A paradigm shift

• Cybernetics and Epistemology • First order

• Second order/postmodernism

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Family Development: Continuity and Change

• The Family Life Cycle • Developmental tasks in each stage

• The cautious approach to the family life cycle • Why?

• The Framework • Stage theory

• Transitions between stages

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Family Development: Continuity and Change

• Developing a Life-Cycle Perspective

• Developmental Tasks

Family Development: Continuity and Change

• Life-Cycle Stages: Continuity and Change • Leaving home

• Joining of families (partnership/marriage)

• Families with young children

• Families with adolescents

• Launching children

• Families in later life

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Family Development: Continuity and Change

• Family Transitions and Symptomatic Behavior

• Negotiations Among Members

• Transition Points Through the Life Cycle

• Stressors: Horizontal and Vertical

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Family Development: Continuity and Change

Stages of Adulthood

• Becoming an adult/Emerging adulthood

• Middle adulthood

• Late adulthood

Stages of family development

• Coupling/Preparing for parenthood

• Creating a family

• Beginning a family

• Coping with Adolescence

• Leaving home

• Reorganizing generational boundaries

• Retirement, illness, widowhood

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Family Development: Continuity and Change

• Developmental Sequences in Other Families • Single-parent-led families

• Remarried and blended families

• Gay and lesbian families

Family Development: Continuity and Change

• Divorce • The decision to divorce

• Planning the breakup of the system

• Separation

• The divorce

• Post-Divorce Family • Single parent, custodial

• Single parent, noncustodial

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