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Leaving Home:

Single Young Adults

A
  • Accepting emotional and financial responsibility

– Differentiation of self in relation to family of origin
(define individual identity)

– Development of Intimate peer relationships

– Establishment of self (work and financial
independence

2
Q

Joining of Families through Marriage:

The New Couple

A
  • Commitment to new system

– Formation of marital system (putting needs of
another ahead of your own)

– Realignment of relationships with extended families
and friends to include spouse

3
Q

Families With Young Children

A
  • Accepting new members into the system

– Ajusting marital system to make space for children

– Joining in child rearing, financial and household
tasks

– Realignment of relationships with extended family to
include parenting and grandparenting roles

4
Q

Families with Adolescents

A
  • Increasing flexibility of family boundaries to permit children’s independence and grandparent’s frailties

– Shifting of parent/child relationship to permit
adolescets to move into/out of system (flexibility,
establish boundaries but allow for exploration

– Refocus on midlife marital and career issues

– Beginning of shift toward caring for older generation

5
Q

Launching Children to Move On

A
  • Accepting a multitude of exits from and entried into the family systems

– Renegotiation of marital system as dyad

– Development of adult relationships between grown
children and their parents

– Realignment of relationships to include in-law and
grand-children

– Dealing with disabilities and death of
parents/grandparents

6
Q

Family in Later Life

A
  • Accepting the shifting generational roles
-- Maintaining own and/or couple functioning despite
 phychological decline (continue/find interests)

– Exploration of new family and social role options

– Support for more central role of middle generation

– Making room in system for the wisdom elderly

– Supporting older generation without over-
functioning

– Dealing with loss of spouse, siblings and other peers
and preparing for death

– Review life and reflect of experiences