FRHD 3040 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Coevolution, Motivation, Family Therapy

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

Document Summary

Research on parent-child relations is guided non only by theories but also by overarching conceptual frameworks that provide assumptions and ideas about the fundamental nature of the social world. Transaction models of causality emphasize how parents and children change as they interact over time. Sameroff proposed the dialectical idea of a constantly changing, transformative nature of causality: transaction assumes that the influences between a [aren"t and child are not linear in the sense of a particular stable outcome in the other. Because each partner is constantly changing, causality cannot be reduced to the elements represented by the initial child and parent characteristics. Circular causality implies that causes and outcomes are recursive and indeterminate, with no distinct beginning and end. In parent-child relationships, circular causality is most commonly considered in terms of vicious cycles of cause and effect. Fit and coevolution emphasize the enduring contextual repercussions of long- term living arrangements.