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| General principles that are composed of interrelated concepts. |
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| Resumed relationships between variables. |
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| Designed to test one or more specific hypotheses. |
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| What is the idiographic approach? |
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| A theoretical approach that focuses on the study of individuals and individuality differences. |
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| What is nomothetic approach? |
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| A theoretical approach that focuses on developing a theory that works for a great number of cases. Researchers using this approach believe it is possible to develop a general family theory. |
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| What is the family systems theory? |
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| Everything that happens to any family member has an impact on everyone else in the family. |
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| What does family system mean? |
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| One of the four major components of the socicultural context in which families live; focuses on the interconnectedness of family members. |
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| The lines that both separate systems from and connect systems to each other. The notion of a boundary implies a hierarchy of interconnected systems, each larger than the one before it. |
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| What does wholeness mean? |
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| A characteristic of systems; general systems theorists believe that the whole is more that the sun of its parts. |
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| What does interdependence parts mean? |
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| What is an open system? Or morphogenic system? |
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| What is a closed system? Or morphostatic system? |
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| What is centrifugal interactions? |
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| What does centripal interactions mean? |
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| What is positive feedback? |
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| What is negative feedback? |
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| What does family development framework mean? |
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| What is social contruction framework? |
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| What is the feminist framework? |
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| What does flexibility mean? |
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| Understand where healthiest families are likely to be using couple and family maps see figure 3.4. Why do these families tend to be heathier? |
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