Theoretical Lenses
This perspective views individuals as part of interconnected systems influencing one another.
What is Systems Perspective?
Deeply held ideas about what is good, right, and important.
What are Values?
Judging another culture based on one’s own cultural standards.
What is Ethnocentrism?
A family consisting of parents and their children only.
What is a Nuclear Family?
This perspective views the family as an interconnected system.
What is Family Systems Perspective?
This lens focuses on power, inequality, and social injustice.
What is Critical Perspective?
Objects or signs that carry shared meaning in a culture.
What are Symbols?
The ability to effectively work across cultures using knowledge and skills.
What is Cultural Competence?
A visual representation of a family's composition, structure, and delineated relationships.
What is a genogram?
This theory focuses on costs, rewards, and decision-making in relationships.
What is Exchange and Choice Perspective on Families?
This approach suggests reality is shaped through social interactions and meaning-making.
What is Social Constructionist Perspective?
The system of communication used by a group.
What is Language?
A lifelong process of self-reflection and learning about cultural differences.
What is Cultural Humility?
A household including multiple generations living together.
What is a Multi-Generational Household?
This perspective emphasizes meaning-making and daily interactions.
What is Symbolic Interaction Perspective on Families?
This theory emphasizes unconscious processes and early childhood experiences.
What is Psychodynamic Perspective?
The process of adopting dominant cultural norms.
What is Assimilation?
Unconscious attitudes that affect understanding and decisions.
What is Implicit Bias?
Families formed through remarriage or new partnerships.
What are Repartnered Families?
This lens examines overlapping identities and systems of oppression.
What is Intersectionality Perspective on Families?
This perspective focuses on growth and change across the lifespan.
What is Developmental Perspective?
Taking elements from another culture without understanding or respect.
What is Cultural Appropriation?
Fear or hatred of people from other countries.
What is Xenophobia?
A visual tool that maps relationships between a family and external systems.
What is an Ecomap?
This theory looks at how families respond to stress and crisis.
Family Stress Perspective?