PSY 3105 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: John Bowlby, Physical Abuse, Attachment Theory
31 Oct 2016
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A very useful framework used for making send of the complex ways family members interact with each other. An approach to understanding family functioning that emphasizes how each relationship within the family influences the family as a whole. The family system is composed of a variety of subsystems: example: in a family consisting of two parents and an adolescent, the subsystems would be; Dyadic relationship: a relationship between two persons: when a family system is very complex, the family system consists of dyadic relationships between people, as well as every possible combination of three or more persons. For both normative and non-normative changes, adjustments in the family system are required to restore a new equilibrium. Midlife crisis: the popular belief, largely unfounded according to research, that most people experience a crisis when they reach about age 40, involving intensive re-examination of their lives and perhaps sudden and dramatic changes if they are dissatisfied.
