General Course Content
An organized and sensible set of ideas that is used to explain or understand what is happening
What is a theory?
Visual way of thinking about this theory
Smaller units within the family
What is a family sub-system?
getting married, living together, negotiating roles as partners
What is the leaving home/single young adult stage?
Ideas for this theory were developed based on this person
The idea that every society, culture, family, and educator imagines families and family life in their own way
Idea that families are flexible/open to change and willing to share information
What is an open family?
What is a closed family?
Stage associated with adjustments to parent-child relationship due to child need for independence
What is families with adolescents?
Structure that directly influence our life that we have no contact with
What is the exosystem?
An approach that recognizes what families are doing well and reframes negatives
What is a strengths-based approach?
This is the unique homeostasis of the family. Families can have positive and negative strategies for getting it back
What is family balance?
The notion of who has power and decisions in a family
What is family hierarchy?
Family of origin continues, aging parents, grandparenting, health issues, loss
Our immediate environment
What is the microsystem?
An approach that views partnership and ongoing connection between educators, children, parents, and families as central
What is a relationship-based approach?
Flow of information in and out of families
What are family boundaries?
Emotional and physical environment of the family
What is family climate?
Empty nest experiences
What is the launching children stage?
Idea that our environment changes over time and affect our lives and development
What is the chronosystem?
“collaborative relationship between families and professionals in the continual pursuit of being responsive to the priorities and choices of families”
What is family-centered practice?
The hats we wear in a family
What are family roles?
What we do in a family
What are family rules?
Stage of family life often described as a 'pressure cooker'
What is families with young children?
Interaction between microsystems
What is the mesosystem?