FRHD 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Symbolic Interactionism, Family Therapy, Family Values
6 Dec 2017
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Why do we need theory: help us predict relationships, help us to explain relationships strong research has strong theoretical underpinnings. Pros: valuable because it stresses the interaction between families and their political and social environments internal and external impacts. Cons: difficult to observe how environments exert changes upon families difficult to measure. Family systems theory also called family therapy, couple therapy helps nurture change and development. Family members are interconnected, each member influences the other. Equilibrium - family will try to make adjustments to go back to the way it was before the change. Families are dynamic - responding to needs of environment, responding to different changes. Pros: takes into account the dynamic nature of family systems. Structural-functional three family functions supply society with new members and socialize these members (procreate, adopt, etc. : provide economic support for family members (shelter, food, provide emotional support for family members.
