Basic Definitions
Theories and Models
Communication
Other concepts
100

Family definition that may focus on blood and marital connections or sharing of resources

What is objective (traditional and census also acceptable)?

100

Accounts for impact of environment on individual and family units and their impact on their environments.

What is Bronfenbrenner's Bioecological model?

100

Clearly stated rules in a family that are easy to understand for both family members and outsiders.

What are overt rules/communication?

100

Visual representation of family relationships and family traits.

What are genograms?

200

The forces that can shape interactions within a family, a series of transactions. 

What are family dynamics?

200
Cohesion, flexibility, and communication are the three main components of this model.

What is the Circumplex model? 

200

When a member of the family cuts off communication with another or others entirely. 

What is estrangement?

200

Chronic conflict, low structure high chaos, lying, role confusion, ignoring boundaries, conditional love and respect.

What are behaviors in families experiencing dysfunction?

300

Relationships that give and take, input and output both ways influencing each other. 

What is a bidirectional relationship?

300

Differentiation of self, triangles, and cohesion are all part of which theory? 

What is Natural Systems Theory (Bowen Theory)? 

300

An ongoing investment in a relationship requiring self-disclosure, vulnerability, trust, and communication. 

What is emotional intimacy?

300

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?

400

The dominant 'ideal' family type for policy and to build/uphold societal norms.

What is SNAF?

400

What do you call the theoretical shift within family studies from prioritizing psychoanalytic theories to systems to neuroscience?

What is a paradigm shift?

400

When information is withheld to maintain power, protect another family member, or hide harmful behavior.

What are family secrets?

400

Family decision-making is closely influenced by this.

What are parenting styles?

500

Tendency of a family unit to attempt to attain a state of equilibrium however possible, to reduce conflict.

What is homeostasis?

500

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?

500

Intentional falsification of truth, lying to make another person question their own perceptions or memory

What is gaslighting?

500

Children of immigrant families having to translate language and negotiate life for their families.

What is cultural translation (or cultural negotiation)?

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