CFT 412 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Conflict Avoidance, Enmeshment, Interpersonal Attraction

• School: University of Oregon
• Department: Counseling Psychology and Human Services
• Course: CFT 412
• Professor: Emily Johnson

Document Summary

The circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement or idea and in terms of which it can be fully understood and assessed. Important to understand why someone may be acting a certain way, as response to an environment. Contribution from outside sources such as the environment, family, friends or others. Affects how people think about the world around them and reacts to things. Open systems are open to growth and change. Ability of a system (family) to balance both stability and change. Views families as they move through various stages. Looks at how families deal with the various developmental tasks associated with each stage. Assumes the more efficient a family is at completing tasks the better off it is. Joining of families through partnership and marriage. Human development evolves within context of our social roles. Fundamentally organized and bounded by our position within the class, gender, racial and cultural structure of our society.