Emerging Conceptions of Family Development over the Life Course

Germain, Carel B.

doi:10.1177/104438949407500501

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“…This study supports models of human development that are responsive to individual and cultural variations of the life course, unpredictability of life events, capacity for personal choice and creativity, issues of disability, and crisis, resiliency, and transformative possibilities inherent in adversity (Germain, 1991(Germain, & 1994. As this study and the literature review indicated, one needs to add the possibility of transpersonal experiences, including spiritual crises and breakthroughs, and the capacity of some people to achieve spiritual growth through creative engagement with adversity.…”

Section: Death As a Continuation Of Lifementioning

confidence: 80%

Transcending through disability and death: Transpersonal themes in living with cystic fibrosis

Canda¹

2001

Social Thought

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Section: Death As a Continuation Of Lifementioning

confidence: 80%

Transcending through disability and death: Transpersonal themes in living with cystic fibrosis

Canda¹

2001

Social Thought

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“…Rather than trying to shape concepts of the family from a single mold, policy makers and researchers would be better advised to recognize the high degree of diversity and fluidity in family and household structure (see Bould, 1993;Hernandez, 1993;Liss, 1987;Trost, 1993; for similar arguments; see Crispell, 1991;Germain, 1994;Riche, 1991;Smith, 1992;and Sorrentino, 1990, for discussions of the changes in families in recent decades). Relational ties vary over the life course as one's procreative family forms and one's family of birth disappears, and marriage, divorce, remarriage, fertility, and mortality reshape the size and composition of an adult's procreative family.…”

Section: Diversity and Fluidity Of Family And Household Structurementioning

confidence: 99%

When is a family a family? Evidence from survey data and implications for family policy

Hill

1995

J Fam Econ Iss

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ABSTRACT" This article examines the correspondence between common assumptions about the American family and actual patterns. The assessment is based on national data on individuals, households, and families. Findings indicate that the coresident nuclear model should be considered a model rather than the model of family. Past as well as current marital ties need to be considered in defining "family," and divorce rather than death should be the expected cause of losing the main breadwinner in the family, except among elderly women. Parent-child ties to either young or adult children often span separate households. Coresidents can include individuals other than nuclear family members, and change rather than stability is the modal pattern in living arrangements. Rather than shaping concepts of the family from a single mold, policy makers and researchers are better advised to recognize the diversity and fluidity in family and household structures.

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“…Bain's essay (1978) on the family, as social container, provided the theoretical base for the teaching, updated in the light of more recent views of family development (Carter & McGoldrick, 1989;Germain, 1994). His analysis was that the vulnerability of the individual peaked at times of psychosocial transitions.…”

Section: The Coursementioning

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Evaluating interprofessional education from a community nurse and social work student perspective

Ewens

Howkins

Badger

2000

Research in Post-Compulsory Education

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The aim of our research was to explore the effectiveness of interprofessional education by exploring changes in students' thinking before and after a course. This article reports a study of an interprofessional education module entitled 'Interprofessional working in health and social services: a lifecycle approach' which ran at the University of Reading. The methodology adopted was a personal construct psychology (PCP) approach and involved eliciting repertory grids from six community nurse and five social work students both before and after they had participated in the interprofessional module. The results of the study and the discussion highlight some key issues for interprofessional education and areas for future work. The use of the grids uncovered aspects of student thinking that would have remained hidden had more traditional curriculum approaches been used. Students did make some changes in their thinking towards greater shared understanding which provided evidence of effective interprofessional education. Some criticisms of PCP as a research methodology are made, but it is also acknowledged that as a research methodology for interprofessional education it offers enormous potential to capture the shared meanings between different professional groups.

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Emerging Conceptions of Family Development over the Life Course

Cited by 25 publications

References 15 publications

Transcending through disability and death: Transpersonal themes in living with cystic fibrosis

Transcending through disability and death: Transpersonal themes in living with cystic fibrosis

When is a family a family? Evidence from survey data and implications for family policy

Evaluating interprofessional education from a community nurse and social work student perspective

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