1. Introduction
2. Organization of the Course
3. Systemic Approaches to Human Behavior
4. Bioecological Model
5. Contexts
6. Influence
7. Family Life Cycle Model
8. Approach
9. Jay Haley
10. Why look at transitions?
11. Life Events Precipitate Change
12. Two Types of Family Changes
13. Dysfunctional Families
14. Stressors on Family System
15. Six Stages of Predictable Family Changes
16. Thought Questions
17. Timing and Dysfunction in This Systems Model
18. Lesson 1A Assignments

2.  Family Life Cycle Model Carter & McGoldrick - Another Version of a Systemic Model

This framework examines the family and its processes in the same manner as the bioecological model focuses on the individual.

It assumes all families go through predictable change precipitated by life events*

• present crisis to the family


• involve tasks that must be mastered


• and the typical ways families fail

*note could think about this for all the systems in which humans are embedded (e.g., when president changes in a country, this ecological system must adapt)

Utility

Helpful framework for making generalizations (and what we need to do to provide supports for change)

Limitations

Assumes nuclear family; does not deal with atypical family