HDF 371 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Family Therapy, Midlife Crisis, Behavioural Genetics
18 May 2018
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Chapter 4: Families:
Is Conflict Between Teenagers and Parents Inevitable:
Self-fulfilling prophecy – the idea that idiiduals ehaior is ifluees others’ epetatios
for them.
Family Relationships at Adolescence:
Family systems theory – a perspective on family functioning that emphasizes interconnections
among different family relationships (such as marital, parent-child, sibling)
Midlife crisis – a psychological crisis over identity believed to occur between the ages of 35 and
, the age rage of ost adolesets’ parets.
Familism – a orietatio toard life i hih the eeds of oe’s fail take preedee oer
the needs of the individual
Generational dissonance – divergence of views between adolescents and parents that is
common in families of immigrant parents and American born adolescents.
Family Relationships and Adolescent Development:
Parental responsiveness – one of the two important dimensions of parenting responsiveness
refers to the degree to hih the paret respods to the hild’s eeds i a aeptig,
supportive manner.
Parental demandingness – one of two important dimensions of parenting; demandingness
refers to the degree to which the parent expects and insists on mature, responsible behaviors
from the child
Authoritative parents – parents who use warmth, firm control, and rational, issue-oriented
discipline, in which emphasis is places on the development of self-direction.
Authoritarian parents – parents who use punitive, absolute, and forceful discipline and who
place a premium on obedience and conformity.
Indulgent parents – parents who are characterized by responsiveness by low demandingness
ad ho are ail oered ith the hild’s happiess.
Indifferent parents – parents who are characterized by low levels of both responsiveness and
demandingness.
Behavioral Genetics and Adolescent Development:
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