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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