Family Life Cycle
Process of
Social Context Change with the Passage of Time
<<Uncommon Therapy>> - Jay
Haley
General Issues:
1 Symptoms are signals. Problems exist in
individual, marital pair, the whole family
2 Potential problems arise as members enter
of leave the family structures.
3 Transition: Parents cares Children ->
Peers-Peers Harmony -> Children care parents
A. Courtship
– Quest for independence and interdependence
KEY: Weaning Process, Intimate
Relationship, Personal life development
1 Human Beings vs. Animals – Extended Kin
and psycho-symptoms
2 Time Factor – Mismatch of courtship
experience or no physical response
3 Risk Factor – Incomplete Weaning Process
due to outsider or lack of intimate bonds
e.g. Family and Peers entanglement,
financial/parental support, absent intimate bonds
(Complete social shut down)
B. Marriage:
Ceremony of structural family change
KEY: Committed partnership, formation of
Individual family, harmony families.
Early Marriage: Excuse for freedom,
mismatch of sexual life, ideas and expectation
2 Challenges: Agreement to deal with families, peers, and practical aspects
How to deal with disagreement (Avoid
first->quarrel and irritate later)
C. Childbirth and Dealing with the Youth: Family System Revised
KEY: Balance of Attention, Child Rearing,
Balance of Involvement
Challenges: Marriage Re-confirmed, Stress
of Child Rearing, Communication Device
Wife: ONLY Wife Syndrome, Envy of Husbands
Child: Communication Bridge -> immature,
disengagement of mother
D. Middle Marriage – The Golden Period
KEY: Acceptance of Golden, Personal
Development, Healthy Pattern/Habit formation
Challenges: Husband’s disappointment/success,
wife’s leisure, adolescent turmoil.
E. Weaning Parents from Children -
KEY: Ceremony Initiation, generation
continuity,
Challenges: Direct Communication,
Adolescent Schizophrenia, Over-engagement.
F. Retirement and Old Age – Get well and Ready
KEY: Acceptance of Loss of Partner and
Death, Life Optimism, Ceremony of Passage
Challenges: Uselessness, dissociation from
younger generations
Conclusions:
1 Family Life Cycle better keeps moving
2 Individual problems can be better
explained and remedied in context of family cycle
3 Think before you blame. Strive for
harmony and growth of family.
<<Ahead of the Curve>>
http://www.aheadofthecurve-thebook.com/
Good
book. I always think that consumption is the heart of economy because
goods and service are to be consumed finally anyway. In retailing,
businessmen are forecasting consumer taste and expenditure and hence
respond to them. The industrial guy respond to retailers. And
industrial guys uses a lot of raw material and making capex. These
drive down the inventory level of commodity and the utilization of
commodity production. Finally, commodity price skyrockets within the
capex cycle, passing down the inflation down the value chain towards
the consumers as inflation. Within the cycle, the improvement in
efficiency of the supply chain results in real economic growth.
The
book is nice in the sense that it articulates different economic
indicators within a logical cause-effect framework. The leading and
lagging behavior of different economic phenomenon can easily be
spot(from an hindsight). With the parallel charts of different economic
data, the book could have demonstrated the "bullwhip effect" which play
an important role in amplified swinging along the supply chain. Sadly,
it has not.
A good book to read esp when you are confused with many of the economic data announced in every week. |