PSY 3123 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Personal Boundaries, Codependency
15 Apr 2017
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Individuals recognized as having special expertise in identifying problems and who control access to important people or services. In canadian society: doctors, police of cers, judges, and social workers. Not everyone in society de nes problems in the sam way. They may increase the family"s ability to solve new problems (functional) They may temporarily reduce family tensions but create new problems in the future (dysfunctional) Family crises evolve over time, and pressures from various sources accumulate. Strains that began before the particular stressor. Ambiguity: the situation within the family or within society may not be clear. In 2006, 14. 3% of canadians had some sort of disability. Developmental delays most common among young children. Mobility and memory problems among older adults. Chronic illness of disability usually stars in one of two ways suddenly, or over a period of time. As an illness becomes chronic, stressors on the family pile up. Added to these stressors are normative family changes.
