FRHD 3040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Family Therapy, Metacognition, Acculturation

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 3040
• Professor: David Green

Document Summary

Frhd3040 lecture 7 parents and children in varied family structures. Distinguishing features of opfs: parental characteristic: never married parents are mostly women, among divorced parents, 10-12% are fathers, younger than two parent families, have fewer assets such as higher education, work experience, and good incomes. Single mothers least likely to be employed with small children: often very young mothers, few marketable skills, less childcare support than a married mother. Divorce and parenting: divorce is one of the most difficult processes a family system can experience, short and long term effects, affects everyone in a family system. Parental adaptions to divorce: family metacognition: recognition that divorce is imminent, reactions (physical, emotional, psychological, acknowledgement of the feelings of others (feelings of adults and children) Parental adaptions to divorce: physical separation: adults separating causes disruptive effects on the family system, removal of fathers most common.