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Family Life Cycle
Family Life Cycle
MEK VILLAFUERTE-SOLANA, MD
SAN BEDA COLLEGE OF
MEDICINE
FCH 1
SEPT 8, 2009
Objectives for this Session
Learn the effect of families and their
complex relationships to health
Discuss the family life cycle and why
we need to study it
Determine the two levels of orders of
magnitude of change
Learn the stages of the family life cycle,
the key principles and conflicts in each
stages
Research on Families and Health
Genetic Influence
Family crucial in child development
Infectious disease spreads in the family
Family factors affect morbidity and
mortality in adults
Family is important in recovery from
illness
Families go through different stages
for which specific developmental
tasks must be accomplished.
Horizontal Stressors
1. DEVELOPMENTAL- Life cycle transitions
2. UNPREDICTABLE- Untimely death, chronic illness, accident
2 Levels of Orders of Magnitude Change
First Order Change
- Involve adaptation
- Do not involve change in the main structure of
the family
- Do not involve a change in an individual’s
identity and family
- A “NEED TO DO” something new
-Tasks that must be accomplished by the family
and its members working within a stage in the
FLC
2 Levels of Orders of Magnitude Change
Differentiation of self in
relation to family of origin
Development of intimate peer
relationships
Establishment of self in
respect to work and financial
independence
Newly Married
Couple
The joining of families
Key principle: Commitment to the
new subsystem
Formation of the marital system
Realignment of relationships with
extended families and friends to
include the spouse
Establishing home base
Money matters
Demands on new role
Newly Married Couple
Establishing a satisfying sexual
relationship
Interaction with friends and
associates in the community
Facing the possibility of children
and planning for their coming
Newly Married Couple
Marital
adjustment
Family planning
and fertility
management Family planning
Pregnancy and
pre-natal care
Labor and delivery
Post partum care
The quality of a
marriage has a
particularly
strong influence
on over all
health.
Family with Young
Children
Pregnancy for the first child to
emergence of adolescents
Stage when child starts to go to
school
Becoming parents
Key principle: Accepting marital
system to make space for
children
Family with Young
Children
I
Graciano Remedios David Tess
82 65 58 55
II
Manding
Amy George Lydia Imelda Elizabeth Grace
Reggie Jhay Bhen
Victoria 31 22 20
Nene Julie Hearty Mandy
Mien
28 28
III 4 4 6 Lester
Michael
Diabetes P P 3
Autonomy
STD
sexuality
Teen age
Midlife
pregnancy
Drug use and Art of
abuse negotiation
Launching Family
Begins when the first child leaves home
Longest stage, most problematic of all
phases
Key Principle: accepting a multitude of
entries and exits into the family system
Adjustment to new family members
Dealing with illness or death of
parents/grandparents
Career stagnation vs financial liberation
Extramarital affairs vs a restructured
marital relationship
Launching Family
Physiologic Letting go
decline Midlife crisis
Diseases of
middle age
Launching Children and
Moving on
Development of adult to adult
relationships between parents and
their grown children
re-alignment of relationships to
include in-laws and grandchildren
Dealing with disabilities and
deaths of parents
SOLANA-VILLAFUERTE FAMILY
I
David Tess
Graciano Remedios
58 55
II
Manding
Amy George Lydia Imelda Elizabeth Grace
Reggie Jhay Bhen
Victoria 31 22 20
Nene Julie Hearty Mandy
Mien
28 28
III 4 4 6 Lester
Michael
Chai
Heart disease 3
Asthma 39 33 Puring
58
Junilyn
Thea
HPN 28
2 mos
II
Manding
Amy George Lydia Imelda Elizabeth Grace
Reggie Jhay Bhen
Victoria 31 22 20
Nene Julie Hearty Mandy
Mien
28 28
III 4 4 6 Lester
Michael
Chai
Heart disease 3
Asthma 39 33
Junilyn
Thea
HPN 28
2 mos