HDFS 1060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Genogram, Family Therapy, Morphogenesis

• School: UConn
• Department: Human Development and Family Studies
• Course: HDFS 1060
• Professor: Ronald Sabatelli

Document Summary

Family was defined as married partners and children residing in a household . Throughout time that definition has changed due to the different types of families we now have. Single parents, biracial couples, blended families, biologically unrelated individuals living cooperatively, and gay and lesbian couples, among others. Families share common tasks that they must do. There are a number of predictable and identifiable tasks that all family systems must contend with regardless of the specific form that a family takes. In addition, families must adapt how they execute their tasks in response to the normative and nonnormative stresses encountered over time. Family members establish routine, habitual patterns of interaction with one another over time that are then continually altered over the course of family development. These patterns give the family its distinctive identity, define the family"s boundaries, determine how the household is managed, and prescribe the quality of the family"s emotional environment.