Stress in Latino Families Following an Adolescent’s Childbearing: Effects on Family Relationships and Siblings Evelyn Ramirez Psych 3350 Professor Petranovich September 12‚ 2013 Stress in Latino Families Following an Adolescent ’s Childbearing BACKGROUND In this study‚ it shows how teen childbearing can increase stress‚ effects family relationships and siblings in Latino families. The theory from this study was to see the behavior of young siblings and interactions with the mother and older
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Family Systems Theory This theory emerged from General Systems Theory by scholars who found it had many applications to families and other social systems. Any system is defined as a bounded set of interrelated elements exhibiting coherent behavior as a trait. (Constantine‚ 1986). Another definition is an assemblage of objects related to each other by some regular interaction or interdependence (Webster). Families are considered systems because they are made up of interrelated elements or objectives
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Using the family structural theory‚ how can families created following second marriages learn to function as one? Families go through several different developmental stages‚ usually at a milestone such as marriage‚ birth‚ death‚ etc. At each stage‚ the members of the family will need to adapt to the current environment or situation and new roles and responsibilities that come with that role. Some may take longer than others may to adapt. (Edelman 152). With second marriages‚ there have already been
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Family Psychology Reading Response # 1 1. Summarize the main points of this paper. You can write them in bullet points. What I am looking for is what YOU thought were the key points in this paper. • This paper focused on attachment theory and the impact of close relationships on psychological development. • Children vary considerably by which attachment security remains individually consistent over time – studies have found both change and consistency in attachment classification. Theorists have
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development‚ families also evolve and move through different stages of development. Family systems are an organized whole‚ therefore individuals within the family are interdependent. Overall family tasks are identified that need to be accomplished for each stage of family development in order to avoid disequilibrium and conflict. In the theory of family development Duvall and Miller (1985) applied the principles of individual development to the family as a unit (Stanhope & Lancaster‚ 2014‚ p. 312)
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Couples and family therapy is embedded within the foundation of systems theory which postulates “psychological problems as arising from within the individual’s present environment and the intergenerational family system” (Corey‚ Corey & Callanan‚ 2006‚ p. 438). The family systems perspective is developed with the notion that clients’ problematic behaviors may serve a purpose for the family‚ may be a function of the family’s inability to operate efficiently
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Chapter I The Problem and Its Background Introduction The term stress had none of its contemporary connotations before the 1920s. It is a form of the Middle English destresse‚ derived via Old French from the Latin stringere‚ "to draw tight." It had long been in use in physics to refer to the internal distribution of a force exerted on a material body‚ resulting in strain. In the 1920s and 1930s‚ the term was occasionally being used in biological and psychological circles to refer
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Family Practice: Summary 10-16-96 By Rick R. Lopez The American family today‚ has the same problems that the American family of yesterday had. Daniel A. Sugarman‚ a psychologist in "Family Practice" introduces us to several case studies that seem to be the main nucleus of family problems today. He has put together a system called "Seven Ways to Keep the Peace at Home‚" in which he describes seven different problems within our American households today that can cause daily emotional and physical
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No one knows exactly why people behave the way that they do. In regards to alcohol abuse‚ research has found that alcoholism may run in families. Being an alcoholic is one thing‚ but letting the effects of alcoholism affect the lives of others is another. Researchers have found that often time’s children with alcoholic parents are negatively affected on a mental‚ physical‚ and emotional level. There are numerous different disorders that affect children and are related to their parents’ alcohol intake
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Theoretical Framework Bowen’s Family Systems Theory Bowen’s family systems theory is a theory specifically in human behaviour saying that the members of the family are somewhat naturally connected to each other emotionally. It says that the family is a unit relating to a member’s emotions and thinking of things to define interactions consisting of many different parts. It says that if a member feels that they are getting disjointed from the family‚ the members will sense that they are feeling that
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