Family Development Theory Exam Questions and Answers
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FAML 400
Institution
FAML 400
history - Answer-one of the first family-focused theories, developed in late 1940s
what does family development theory focus on? - Answer-it focuses on the change in process of internal family development viewed micro-analytically with dimension of time being central - changes experienced by fam...
Family Development Theory Exam
Questions and Answers
history - Answer-one of the first family-focused theories, developed in late 1940s
what does family development theory focus on? - Answer-it focuses on the change in
process of internal family development viewed micro-analytically with dimension of time
being central - changes experienced by families as they move through family stages
Reuben Hill & Roy Rodgers - Answer-first systematic statement of family development
theory; identified 3 levels of analysis:
individual-psychological, interactional-association, & societal-institutional
Evelyn Duvall - Answer-broke family life cycle into 8 stages, each addressing nodal
events
-family life cycle - comes from expansion (born/raising of children) and contraction
(leaving home)
Joan Aldous - Answer--preferred "family career" over family life cycle
*Family development consists of 4 stages:
1. Establishment of marital relationship
2. Parental role
3. Return to couple relationship
4. Aging couple
Betty Carter & Monica McGoldrick - Answer-helped to apply family development theory
to MFT & redefined normality
Vern Bengtson and Katherine Allen (1993) - Answer--applied the Life Course
Perspective to the study of families which takes into consideration both the static and
dynamic aspects of the family as well as the various kinds of time: ontogenetic,
generational, and historical.
Elder and Giele (2009) - Answer-**Introduced 4 important paradigms to the Life Course
Perspective:
- Historical and geographical location
-Social embeddedness
- Human agency
-Variations in timing
James White - Answer--helped delineate testable propositions; authored multiple theory
texts, including Advancing Family Theories (Sage); Dynamics of Family Development
(Guilford)
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