Transition To College And Young Adulthood

The Expanded Family Life Cycle Essay chapter 12 Marcos Rosa 477 MFT 603B.RA Individual and Family Development 10/14/2114 Becoming an adult Finding ways to love and work This family cycle transition can be described as beginning with the adolescents identity crises and continuing with the transition to college and young adulthood. A healthy resolution of challenges of this stage will be accepting emotional and financial responsibilities for self (McGOLDRICK, 2011) while the unhealthy will be cutting-off, becoming estranged and distant from family or ending up never leaving home. Both of these responses are dissatisfactory solution to the challenges of the launching phase. A young adult task in this phase is primarily focused on the development
of autonomy and healthy interdependence. Some of the challenges of this process will be Development of financial self-sufficiency, Learn how to work, Learn how to love, be responsible for ones own emotional and develop intimate peer relationships. Some tensions between parents and young adults are common during this stage.
The young adult expects to be free from parents controlling them on their daily decisions, but they still dependent on parents to support them financially. There is also a expectation from them that parents will continue to support them while they learn how to work and plan for their future carreer. During this stage, young adults will have to make choice about what they will do for living. They will think about what they are going to study. Some of them may think that they are better than parents, felling grandiose, thinking that they will never commit the same mistake others do. They will start to select colleges that they want to attend and making plans for the future, counting with parents to support them. For some of the young adults that dont find support from parents to proceed with college, may ending up working part time and attending college part time. Others will be discouraged to proceed with further education. Unfortunately the number of young adults that do not pursue post secondary education is high, especially in some poor areas of societies. For that reason, some of them will become unskilled labors, having temporary jobs or eventually involving in criminal or drug activities, ending up
in prison. This is also the phase where young adults will learn intimate relationship. They tend to be influenced by theirs parents and siblings previous relations with them. This phase will be crucial for them to learn differentiation of self in relation to their family of origin. Family members often fail one another in painful ways during this life cycle stage. Yet, they remain family forever and must find their way forward together. For those who go to college, college parties will open up opportunities to meet new people and socialize in groups.
In this new environment, they will be exposed to sexual encounters, Alcohol, marijuana and other types of drugs. They will have the opportunity to practice theirs freedom to make their own choices. They will face a lot of pressure. If they dont manage these conflicts well or make bad choices, consequences can follow them for their entire lives. Substance addictions, sexual transmitted disease, unwanted pregnancy and college drop off, can be some of unhealthy results from that. If they manage well thought this challenges, they will learn experiences that will able them to develop healthy relationships in future, as they continue to develop and grow in to their professional and financial independency life. A lot of struggle, conflict and dependence, can be developed during this stage for adults who never left home. Being aware of this stage and all possible challenges that young adults will have to face makes me feel even more compassion for them. As a father, this knowledge will help me understand the environment that soon my two teenagers will be exposed to. Also I will be able to intentionally, prepare them to explore future professional choices, showing them all my
support when the time comes. As a future family therapist, this information will equipt me to help familys conflicts between parents and young adults. It will help me identify not only with the parents conflicts and what went wrong during young adult launching, but to empathize with the young adults struggling to succeed in this generation with a diversity of choices to make everyday.  PAGE PAGE ROSA PAGE 4 PAGE Y, i-qN3 (f4Av2l_j-OQ ev)Ur-@V4EjzNp
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