Basic Definitions
Family definition that may focus on blood and marital connections or sharing of resources
What is objective (traditional and census also acceptable)?
Accounts for impact of environment on individual and family units and their impact on their environments.
What is Bronfenbrenner's Bioecological model?
Clearly stated rules in a family that are easy to understand for both family members and outsiders.
What are overt rules/communication?
Visual representation of family relationships and family traits.
What are genograms?
The forces that can shape interactions within a family, a series of transactions.
What are family dynamics?
What is the Circumplex model?
When a member of the family cuts off communication with another or others entirely.
What is estrangement?
Chronic conflict, low structure high chaos, lying, role confusion, ignoring boundaries, conditional love and respect.
What are behaviors in families experiencing dysfunction?
Relationships that give and take, input and output both ways influencing each other.
What is a bidirectional relationship?
Differentiation of self, triangles, and cohesion are all part of which theory?
What is Natural Systems Theory (Bowen Theory)?
An ongoing investment in a relationship requiring self-disclosure, vulnerability, trust, and communication.
What is emotional intimacy?
Defines basic rights that all children should experience growing up including protection, education, health care, shelter, and good nutrition.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of the Child?
The dominant 'ideal' family type for policy and to build/uphold societal norms.
What is SNAF?
What do you call the theoretical shift within family studies from prioritizing psychoanalytic theories to systems to neuroscience?
What is a paradigm shift?
When information is withheld to maintain power, protect another family member, or hide harmful behavior.
What are family secrets?
Family decision-making is closely influenced by this.
What are parenting styles?
Tendency of a family unit to attempt to attain a state of equilibrium however possible, to reduce conflict.
What is homeostasis?
This theory explains that a family functions as a social system with bidirectional influence and a family as an identity of its own. Includes concepts of interdependence, circularity, and equifinality.
What is Family Systems Theory?
Intentional falsification of truth, lying to make another person question their own perceptions or memory
What is gaslighting?
Children of immigrant families having to translate language and negotiate life for their families.
What is cultural translation (or cultural negotiation)?