CFT 412 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Conflict Avoidance, Enmeshment, Interpersonal Attraction
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13 Apr 2018
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Healthy Loving Relationships
Context
● 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
Family Systems
Theory
● Ability of a system (family) to balance both stability and change
○ Open systems are open to growth and change
○ Closed systems maintain the status quo
Key Relationship Concepts: Flexibility in Family Systems
● Ability of a system (family) to balance both stability and change
● Four Levels of Family Flexibility
○ Rigid
○ Structured
○ Flexible
○ Chaotic
Family Development Framework
● 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
Life Cycle Stages
● Leaving home: single young adults
● Joining of families through partnership and marriage
● Families with young children
● Families with adolescents
● Launching children and moving on
● Families in later life
Moving Beyond Tasks & Stages
● 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
● Traditional theories of child development have over-focused on
discrete tasks and stages in the evolution of a self
○ Defined primarily by a child’s level of achievement and
autonomy
LGBTQ
Families and
● Adolescence: many of the same individuation tasks, but with less
assistance from the family in rehearsing and planning for gay life
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