HDFS 2300 intergenerational model
exam 2 with complete solutions
generation - correct answer ✔✔Links that connect parents and children as a group of people born and
living during the same time
generational process - correct answer ✔✔-connections people have to traditions, patterns, emotions,
values
-Ways of relating that become heritage and determine lifestyle of each family
generational process - correct answer ✔✔influences how we think, feel, believe, and relate to others
-what is important (or unimportant)
-Views of the world: a friendly or unfriendly place
-How we use the environment to help us learn and cope
-Our aspirations, values, struggles, resourcefulness, and the attitudes that we have toward other people,
property, religion, and education
-Dictate how we handle conflict, intimacy, anger, love, hate, life in general
generational process - correct answer ✔✔-Every aspect of family life grows out of/builds upon these
processes
-Influential bc: some parts of processes are permanent, difficult to change processes, processes begin
early (before we're born, closely connected to our lives)
generational processes principle - correct answer ✔✔-healthy generational processes tend to create
many beautiful/enabling outcomes in family systems, unhealthy generational processes tend to create
serious problems in families
-Two types: generational alliances and generational transmissions
generational alliances - correct answer ✔✔-connections/boundaries between subsystems in a family
system
, -beneficial or destructive
-occurs when two/more individuals in a family become unusually close and align themselves as a unit in
the family
generational alliance principle - correct answer ✔✔-clear boundaries between generations helps
adults/children develop in healthy ways
-When cross generational alliances/coalitions occur, can lead to emotional/interpersonal difficulties for
adults/children
-Subsystems cannot execute tasks they need to and boundaries are no longer clear
-Ex: spouse/parent against other spouse
generational transmissions - correct answer ✔✔-process of transmission from one generation to the
next, transmission of ways of behaving, ways of feeling, ways of relating, ways of defining reality, ways of
coping with intimacy and distance
-those who raise you are your role models
generational transmission principle - correct answer ✔✔-families tend to transmit their style of life to
each new generation
-It runs in the family
-Kennedy's, gronkowski's
transmission examples - correct answer ✔✔Can be positive or negative
-Ex: child abused, abuses their own children
-Ex: abuse, alcohol, stubornness, parenting styles, ways to love/maintain relationships, religious views,
values
unhealthy transmission - correct answer ✔✔levels of differentiation and parents unresolved emotional
attachments are reenacted in future relationships and passed along to succeeding generations
-Tend to select spouse at same level of differentiation as self
murray bowen - correct answer ✔✔Bowen's model focuses on how experiences in family of origin
establish legacy that impacts
exam 2 with complete solutions
generation - correct answer ✔✔Links that connect parents and children as a group of people born and
living during the same time
generational process - correct answer ✔✔-connections people have to traditions, patterns, emotions,
values
-Ways of relating that become heritage and determine lifestyle of each family
generational process - correct answer ✔✔influences how we think, feel, believe, and relate to others
-what is important (or unimportant)
-Views of the world: a friendly or unfriendly place
-How we use the environment to help us learn and cope
-Our aspirations, values, struggles, resourcefulness, and the attitudes that we have toward other people,
property, religion, and education
-Dictate how we handle conflict, intimacy, anger, love, hate, life in general
generational process - correct answer ✔✔-Every aspect of family life grows out of/builds upon these
processes
-Influential bc: some parts of processes are permanent, difficult to change processes, processes begin
early (before we're born, closely connected to our lives)
generational processes principle - correct answer ✔✔-healthy generational processes tend to create
many beautiful/enabling outcomes in family systems, unhealthy generational processes tend to create
serious problems in families
-Two types: generational alliances and generational transmissions
generational alliances - correct answer ✔✔-connections/boundaries between subsystems in a family
system
, -beneficial or destructive
-occurs when two/more individuals in a family become unusually close and align themselves as a unit in
the family
generational alliance principle - correct answer ✔✔-clear boundaries between generations helps
adults/children develop in healthy ways
-When cross generational alliances/coalitions occur, can lead to emotional/interpersonal difficulties for
adults/children
-Subsystems cannot execute tasks they need to and boundaries are no longer clear
-Ex: spouse/parent against other spouse
generational transmissions - correct answer ✔✔-process of transmission from one generation to the
next, transmission of ways of behaving, ways of feeling, ways of relating, ways of defining reality, ways of
coping with intimacy and distance
-those who raise you are your role models
generational transmission principle - correct answer ✔✔-families tend to transmit their style of life to
each new generation
-It runs in the family
-Kennedy's, gronkowski's
transmission examples - correct answer ✔✔Can be positive or negative
-Ex: child abused, abuses their own children
-Ex: abuse, alcohol, stubornness, parenting styles, ways to love/maintain relationships, religious views,
values
unhealthy transmission - correct answer ✔✔levels of differentiation and parents unresolved emotional
attachments are reenacted in future relationships and passed along to succeeding generations
-Tend to select spouse at same level of differentiation as self
murray bowen - correct answer ✔✔Bowen's model focuses on how experiences in family of origin
establish legacy that impacts
