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Intergenerational Family Systems
Definition
● A Family with a biological parent living in the house with an adult child
● Examples– A 76 year old parent moves in with her Daughter and
Husband– An adult child gets divorced and moves back home with
his parents
Definitions
● Differs from multigenerational family– A group of people from different generations who may or
not be related– Example
– A family takes in an older adult who is not related but needs care
Incidence over time
Doubled since 1970
Assessing and Treating
● Knowledge of several areas– Aging– Beliefs about how family members relate to elders– Beliefs about the aging process– In the next slides you will be asked to post three
beliefs you have about the aging process
Life Course Developmental Perspective
looks at how chronological age, relationships, common life transitions, and social change shape people’s lives from birth to death.
Impacts
● Cultural and Family Expectations● Life Course Developmental Perspective● Intergenerational Relationships
Family are Systems
● System are always in motion, they are never at some final place
● Family evolves consistently
Examples of Families Evolving
● Stop for a minute and think about a time in your families life when it had to adjust to a change, when it had to evolve.
● Reflect on that moment to understand the concept
Developmental Issues
● Normative Developmental Transitions– Transition we make through life that are expected based
upon our development– For a family think of
● When a couple has a child● When the child goes to school● When one parent gets a raise● When a second child is born● When the children leave the as adults
Developmental Transitions
● Non-normative– Transition that are outside the usual developmental or
“normal developmental process”– For a family
● Death of a young child● Layoff or loss of job for the main breadwinner● Premature death of a parent● Elderly adult moving back into the home of a family
Assessing Families Using a Life course Perspective
● In the assessment process– Focus on the notion of linked lives– Emphasis on history as an important factor– All contributing the the divergent paths taken by
individuals and families across the life span
Principles
● Age Stratification– People of different generations confront unique
challenges because of individual development and social change
● Human Development over time– Individual time– Generational Time– Historical Time
Principles
● Cohorts– Groups of People who enetr a similar experince at the
same time
● Transitions– Events serve as markers
Trajectories
● Pathways of Individual and Family Development● Different Meaning for Different Individuals● Family Trajectories are determined by the place of
the Family in the– Larger Social World– Their Generational Time– Their Historical Time
Pause the Presentation
● Go to the link below● Once there complete a timeline (follow the
directions)● Create a timeline for members of your family of
different generations● Look at those timelines and consider how history
and when you were born impact you and how they may impact a family– http://www.OurTimeLines.com
Review
● Based upon what you have learned?– About Generational Difference– About the impact of people's cohort group– About the elderly and their impact in the family
● What new insights do you have about family assessment● What do you know now that you did not know before this
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