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Interactional/Communication Family Therapy - ✔✔Therapy consists of communication skills
and the intent of messages sent and received; how communication effects behavior
Attention is on patterns of communication in the family unit
Structural Family Therapy - ✔✔Family interactions are altered by change in the structure of
the family as facilitated by therapy
Family Systems Therapy - ✔✔The self is differentiated; intellect and emotion are fostered in
the individual unit of each family
Can develop a family genogram from discussion on family tree with therapist
Intellect leads over emotion
Family Career or Life Cycle (Family development theory - ✔✔(2-Parent Nuclear) Transitional
Stage: Between Families
Stage I: Beginning Families
Stage II: Childbearing Families
Stage III: Families with Preschool Children
Stage IV: Families with School Age Children
Stage V: Families with Teenagers
Stage VI: Families Launching Young Adults
Stage VII: Middle-Age Parents
Stage VIII: Family in Retirement and Old Age
Other circumstances: divorced, stepparent, domestic
, The most stressful life events are: (FILE) - ✔✔family losses
marital strains
family legal violations
illness and family caregiver strains
intrafamily strains
Phases of the Resiliency Model of Family Stress, Adjustment, and Adaptation - ✔✔1.
Adjustment 2.Adaptation
The Resiliency Model of Family Stress, Adjustment, and Adaptation is based on 4 assumptions -
✔✔It is normal for families to face hardships and make changes to adapt.
Families develop strengths to protect members from major disruptions.
Families develop coping mechanisms and defense strategies with change.
Families benefit and contribute to communities at times of stress and crisis.
Interacting variables in Hill's Family Stress Theory - ✔✔A: Event and related hardships B:
Crises in meeting the hardshipsC: How the family defines the eventX: The crises or
noncrisis2.The adjustment phase post-crisisDisorganizations, recovery, reorganization
Hill's Family Stress Theory (ABCX Model) - ✔✔Focus is on the precrisis stage
Landmark family stress theory
Developed by Hill and named the ABCX Model
A, B, C, X are variables that interact and lead to family crisis or noncrisis
Antistress Period - ✔✔Occurs prior to confronting the stressor; anticipation; if the stressor is
identified early coping strategies can be identified to lessen the impact.
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