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

Life Events Precipitate Change

Individual:
The task of the individual in a crisis is to re-stabilize (develop new roles/operations)

Example: Are you failing a class? What do you do?

Family:
Families' tasks are more complex in that they have to do all this and still allow for further growth and change. How the family coped with this - course failure

(e.g. parent loses image of child successful, financial cost incurred with making up the course, etc.)

With crisis the family or individual can re-stabilize in a way that does not allow for the future at transition in the life cycle.

Example: Some families will not let an adult child "unattach" from the family of origin and form their own adult life, so when he or she meets someone he or she wants to marry, that transitions tasks will be much harder to accomplish.