Stronger Together?
A family is considered strong with at least one of these five traits.
What are Appreciation and Affection, Commitment, Positive Communication, Enjoyable Time Together, Spiritual Well Being, and Stress/Crisis Management?
Stereotypical gender roles, such as the man being the breadwinner and the woman as a stay-at-home mom, developed due to a trend of this type of family.
What is the Nuclear Family?
An individual who seldom engages with or experiences sexual feelings in coonsidered to be a part of this spectrum.
What is asexualism?
This tool is used to help a family assess how each member percieves aspects of their relationships and opens space to speak about areas of growth in five categories.
What is the Family Strength Inventory?
True or false: You will get every relationship correct the first try.
What is false?
A family that often plays board games together exhibits a strength in this trait.
What is quality time together?
Families moved to more urban areas and developed suburbias due to this era.
What is Industrialization?
An individual may maintain love with these for conditions.
What are social, psycological, physiological, or cognitive needs?
Most individuals fall within this section of the Intercultural Development Continum Model.
What is minimization?
Modern technology such as Tinder, Grindr, and Bumble has led to an increase in this behavior, characterized as a sudden disapearance of active engagement with an individual.
What is ghosting?
The Berea College Child Development Laboratory teaches its children and their parents the importance of self-advocacy and mindfulness. This encourages this trait.
What is effective communication?
Compared to extended families, nuclear families were perceived to be lacking in the development of these traits.
What are morals, mental health, and stability?
Many of these modern relationships are nonromantic or nonsexual but remain intimate.
What are queerplatonic partnerships?
This indivual's Family Systems is highly theoretical and looks at the intergenerational effect of relationships on an individual.
Who is Murray Bowen?
Many relationships become problematic when one individual exhibits these behaviors that manipulate another's thoughts and feelings, often resulting in the manipulated individual feeling devalued or unheard.
What is gaslighting?
After the 1930s, research began on American families to determine how they were able to manage this crisis.
What is the Great Depression?
By 1975, the Nuclear Family was no longer sustainable due to this issue.
What is the lack of increasing wages alongside inflation?
A group of D&D nerds get together to enjoy a night of rolling dice and collaborative storytelling might be considered this type of nonmarital relationship.
What is hanging out?
This model helps assess the cohesion and flexibity of a family.
What is the circumplex model?
The "typical" family is based on this lens.
What is the white amatonormative perspective?
Each family and relationship is different. As such, they need to remember this when taking the Family Strengths Inventory.
Do not be discouraged if there are not as many strengths in a section as you predicted. Perhaps your family does not value that aspect or need it. Either way, every relationship has room to grow and improve.
Is there anything wrong with wanting this kind of family unit?
Absolutely Not!
Most relationships have these goals.
What are connection and support?
While these models help with determining facets of family relationships, it is important to remember this fact.
What is no family is perfect, and these tools are not meant to say that a family is bad, but can improve the bonds in a family?
The best way to avoid or manage struggles in relationships is to.
What is knowing our own value and engaging with positive communication?