AHSC 313 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Decision-Making, Stressor, Major Force
7 Jan 2017
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A systems review of the family requires an understanding of the interdependence that exists among the family"s particular composition; the tasks the family must negotiate; the strategies the family employs in meeting these tasks. Though all families must execute similar tasks, the way they execute them is entirely different. Strategies and rules form the unique patterns and dynamics of interaction found within each family. The development of strategies: family systems are embedded within historical contexts, and social, economic, religious, educational and political systems. Each broader system can influence the predominant strategies selected by families: families repeat patterns of interaction from one generation to another one"s family of origin is understood as an important source of influence. The family of origin is a model or blueprint: whether we follow or not this blueprint depends on how we experienced our family of origin growing up.
