1) The document discusses the family life cycle and parenting life stages from pre-marriage through adulthood and aging.
2) Key stages include new couples, new parents with infants/young children, families with school-aged children, families with teenagers, launching adult children, and aging families.
3) Each parenting life stage outlines functional and dysfunctional patterns for parents and children, such as nurturing infants, developing autonomy in young children, negotiating adolescence, and reversing roles as adult children care for aging parents.
1) The document discusses the family life cycle and parenting life stages from pre-marriage through adulthood and aging.
2) Key stages include new couples, new parents with infants/young children, families with school-aged children, families with teenagers, launching adult children, and aging families.
3) Each parenting life stage outlines functional and dysfunctional patterns for parents and children, such as nurturing infants, developing autonomy in young children, negotiating adolescence, and reversing roles as adult children care for aging parents.
1) The document discusses the family life cycle and parenting life stages from pre-marriage through adulthood and aging.
2) Key stages include new couples, new parents with infants/young children, families with school-aged children, families with teenagers, launching adult children, and aging families.
3) Each parenting life stage outlines functional and dysfunctional patterns for parents and children, such as nurturing infants, developing autonomy in young children, negotiating adolescence, and reversing roles as adult children care for aging parents.
Environtment Family Life Cycle • Pre marriage/Engagement • Established • A new couple • A new parent/family with a new baby • Family with pre school age child • Family with shool age child • Family with teenagers/adolescence • Family as a launching centre/with adult children • Aging family Parenting life stages • Infant and parents stage - Parents functional pattern : Nurturing,protecting, caring for infant Infant’s functional pattern : total dependency on parent - Parents disfunctional pattern : child rejection,negligence, or abuse Infant’s disfunctional pattern : regression and withdrawal from forming relationships with parents Younger child and parents stage
• Parents functional pattern : Adjustment of triadic
relation to provision of behavior model for child to imitate Provision of appropriate restrictions and limitations • Child’s funcional pattern: Achieving psychological separation from parents Achieving autonomy , mirrroring and imitating parents’ behavior, mastering omnipotent wish Lanjutan Younger and ..... • Parents’ disfunctional patterns : Inability to let child gradually separate from parents • Child ‘s functional pattern : Prolonged symbiotic relation with parents Older child and parents’ stage • Parents’ functional pattern : Sensitivity to child’s gr owth needs, Provision of opportunities for child to do things for self within child’s abilities, Letting child go and grow, Enjoying life through child’s experience. • Child’s functional pattern: Search for indivuduality. Lanjutan older child and parent... • Parents’ dysfunctional pattern s : Insensitive to child’s growth, Inhibition or limitation of child’s individuality, • Child’s disfunctional patterns : Failure to seek individuality. Adolescent and parents’ stage • Parents’ f unctional patterns : Provision of assistance in establishment of role and identity, Toleration and compromise of the cultural gap that may exist between generations • Adolescent’s functional patterns : Development of self image and identity Lanjutan adolescent’s.... • Parents’ disfunctional patterns : Parents feel their child undervalues them, Unwilling to negotiate cultural gap with adolescent • Adolescent’s dysfunctional patterns : Adolescent believes that parents depreciate him or her, Adolescent rebels against parents Adult child and parents’ stage • Parents’ functional patterns : Letting grown-up child go and be independent, Accepting adult-to- adult relationships with grown-up child, Standing by with encouragement,reassurance, and appreciation • Child’s functional patterns : Relative independence from parents, Develop adult- to- adult relationship with parents, Seek guidance and support from parents whenever they are needed. Adult child and aged parents’ stage • Parents functional patterns :Reverse role to be taken care of by child Child’s functional patterns : Reverse role to take care of age and incapacitated parents • Parents’ dysfunctional patterns: Resistance to giving up authoriative role toward grown-up child, Refusal of help from adult child when needed Lanjutan adult ... • Parents’ dysfunctional patterns : • Unable to let grown-up child go and be independent • Child’s dysfunctional patterns : Fail to develop adult –to adult relationship with parents Lanjutan adult .... • Chid’s dysfunctional patterns : Inabilityto take the reversed role, still expecting parents to be omniponent, Rejection and negligence of incapacitated aged parents when they need help.
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