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Robert Beavers
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- Created Beaver's Systems Model of Family Functioning, Beaver's Interactional Competence Scale, Beaver's Interactional Style Scale and Self-report Family Inventory
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2 components of Beaver's cross-sectional process model
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1) Family competence
2) Family style of relating |
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2 ends of the spectrum of family style of relating
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1) Centripetal
2) Centrifugal |
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Centripetal
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Tendency for family members to cling to adolescents and emphasize togetherness
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Centrifugal
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Denotes the ease with which disengagement occurs between family members
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Mid-range dysfunctional families with a centripetal style produce children who...
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- Have a tendency to cling and act neurotic
- i.e. Adult children return or never leave home |
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Beavers believed that severely dysfunctional families with a centripetal style produce children with ___.
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Schizophrenia
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Beavers believed functional family dynamics involve...
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- Young families
with small children are naturally centripetal
- While families with adolescents grow towards some incorporation of centrifugal forces - A flexible balance is considered necessary for healthy adjustment over time |
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Rigidly centripetal families
create a culture in which...
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- They bind together against the outside world and outsiders are distrusted
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What is emotional expression like in rigidly centripetal families?
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- Can express positive feelings towards one another
- But repress negative or ambivalent feelings, resulting in warmth that can often feel false or superficial because the underlying conflict is never truly expressed or resolved - Somatization of feelings (headaches, aches and pains, fatigue) or scapegoating of one member manifests as a release valve for the repressed negative feelings in the family |
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In rigidly centripetal families, dependency is ___; individualism is ___.
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Encouraged; punished
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A rigidly centrifugal system,
trusts outsiders ___ than their own family
members
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More
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In a rigidly centrifugal system, dependency is perceived as ___.
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Weakness
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What is emotional expression like in a rigidly centrifugal system?
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- Expressions of
love and caring are repressed
- Anger and even hostility are accepted modes of relating |
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Mid-range dysfunctional families with a centrifugal style produce adolescents who...
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- Are expelled from home or leave home early
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