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Family Communication Cohesion And Change 9th Edition Kathleen M. Galvin - Solutions
Compare and contrast communication patterns you have observed in the interactions between middle-aged and older family members in two families. To what extent were reminiscing, reflection, and sorting out important to members at these stages?
Describe three ways in which communication is affected by the departure of young adults during the launching stage in either twoparent systems or singleparent systems.
What key qualities appear to characterize family communication during the period when one or more adolescents are living within the household?
Relying on your own family or a family you have observed, describe how a couple or partners have dealt with the communication tasks of incorporating a child into their system and dealing with the following communication-related issues: (a) renegotiating roles, (b) transmitting culture, (c)
Imagining your own family or a family you know well, provide examples of verbal or nonverbal communication patterns that seemed commonplace at different developmental stages in the family life cycle in parent-child, committed partner, and sibling communication.
Discuss what impact different cultural backgrounds have on the communication in various stages of development on children and parents. To what extent might an Asian American, Hispanic, African American, or Native American heritage (or pick another) influence two or three developmental issues?
Reflecting on your own family or one you know well, compare and contrast how the traditional stages of development were affected by lifecourse issues. Cite three examples of on-time and off-time events that altered the life course.
Analyze the function of communication in the family’s transitions between stages
Illustrate major communication tasks and challenges in the different stages of family life course
Characterize the role of communication in the family stress model
Explain the developmental stages and life-course approaches to family development
Give an example of constructive conflict in a real or fictional family.What makes it constructive? How does the family communicate and manage the conflict more effectively?
Give an example of destructive conflict in a real or fictional family.What makes it destructive? How could the family communicate and manage the conflict more effectively?
Relate examples from your own experiences with families that might agree or disagree with Gottman’s conclusion that couples can encounter conflict, but the ratio needs to be five positive messages to one negative over time if a relationship is to last.
Interview three persons about their attitudes or practices toward conflict communication they learned in their family of origin and how they perceive those attitudes and practices influence how they manage conflict today.
Using the stages of family conflict, describe a recurring conflict in a real or fictional family.
Take a position and discuss whether conflict is inevitable and necessary for family relationships to develop and grow.
Compare and contrast destructive and constructive conflict communication
Illustrate the role and management of unresolved family conflict
Explain communication and conflict negotiation in different couple types, family communication patterns, and Gottman’s conflict types
Analyze an ongoing family dispute using the conflict stages model
Demonstrate what a conflict is via defining conflict and explaining the role of interdependence, expression, perceptions, goals, and scarce resources
Using the eight phases of the loop model of problem-solving, analyze how a family makes a decision on an important issue. Choose your family of origin if you like, but feel free to select another family you know well or a family in a movie, TV show, or novel.
To what extent should children be part of the family’s decision-making process? How can they develop the communication skills necessary to participate effectively in such discussions?
Give specific examples of how families may use consensus, accommodation, and de facto decision-making processes.
Analyze the types of verbal influence strategies used by a real or fictional family. Do you see any patterns of strategy usage? Which influence strategies seem to be most effective in your example?
Analyze the power resources used regularly by members of a real or fictional family. Indicate how members use communication to convey their use of these resources.
How might power affect a family’s cohesion and adaptability?
Illustrate communication skills that facilitate family decision-making
Analyze the factors affecting family decision-making
Demonstrate how different influence strategies may be used by individual family members or subgroups
Identify five sources of power in families
Compare and contrast Cromwell and Olson’s three aspects of power
Trace the source of power in families and the transactional nature of power
How do different communication technologies affect family roles and communication patterns today? How has this changed over the last 10 to 15 years? What changes do you anticipate by 2025?
Identify a media character who has been part of two or more serious romantic relationships. How did the character change within this new partnership? Give two examples of changes in communication style.
Identify two examples of adult partnerships you know that fit Fitzpatrick’s couple types. Describe some communication strategies that the partners use.
Identify a real or fictional family that changed over time. Note how some family roles may have shifted in the past few years and give reasons for these changes. What has been the effect of these role changes on the family system?
Compare and contrast the communication tasks required to carry out the role functions involved in providing resources and nurturance for the family. Describe how these functions are enacted in a family with which you are familiar.
Discuss how family roles may change by 2025. How might families be similar or different at that point? What new roles may emerge or disappear?
Explain Fitzpatrick's three major couple types
Illustrate the four family types based on the family communication patterns typology
Compare the enactment of a specific family role function in different families
Describe how each family role function may be enacted
Illustrate the difference between role expectations and role enactment
Explain the concepts of roles and role functions
Assume you are a parent. What qualities would you advise your child to look for in a marital partnership or long-term committed partnership?
Relying on personal observation or a media example, discuss ways you have seen an intimate adult relationship overcome jealousy or deception through forgiveness.
Under what circumstances, if any, would you recommend withholding full self-disclosure of a very serious issue in a marital and/or family relationship?
Take a position on the following statement and defend it: A marital/partnership commitment should be broken only in cases of partner or child abuse.
Create your own definition of family intimacy and provide two examples of such relationships characterized by intimate communication.
Create your own definition of marital and/or committed partnership intimacy and provide two examples of such relationships characterized by intimate communication.
Illustrate the barriers to partner and family intimacy
Create guidelines for parents on how to talk about sex with their children
Explain the challenges of talking about sexuality with children and adolescents
Compare the benefits and costs of total self-disclosure in family relationships
Illustrate the concepts of sacrifice, forgiveness, and sanctification
Assess the importance of communication to partner and family intimacy Explain the significance of commitment to members of a real or fictional family
Interview someone from another culture to describe (1) the most significant relational strategies in their culture and (2) the relational strategies used in U.S. culture that would not be appropriate in his or her culture.
Reflect on a dyadic family relationship (parent-child, partners, siblings)that you consider as well maintained. Describe two specific relational currencies that convey affection on the part of each individual and explain why they convey affection.
Identify three everyday face-to-face or mediated rituals that partners use to connect with each other. How effective are their efforts?
Interview three individuals to provide you with examples of confirmation and disconfirmation in their families.
Observe the use of confirming behaviors in a particular family relationship and indicate the extent to which the receiver appears to recognize the effort. Explain how some attempts at confirmation might be taken for granted after a while.
Take a position on the following statement: “If you have to work at a relationship, there is something wrong with the relationship.” Give your reasons for the position.
Compare and contrast families with distinctly different relational cultures
Compare and contrast the use of relational currencies in families
Explain the ways in which rituals maintain family identity
Illustrate how respect is conveyed in families
Distinguish among confirming acts of recognition, dialogue, and acceptance
Explain the concept of relational maintenance and provide descriptive examples
Select one of the four major communication patterns discussed in this chapter and describe how these changed after a divorce or a parental death.
Analyze a commonly told family story and describe its impact on family values or beliefs.
Relying on a real or fictional family, describe how the most frequently used communication network(s) have changed over time due to developmental changes.
Identify a family secret that existed in a real or fictional family. Discuss the type of secret, how it was managed communicatively, and the effect of such a secret on family members.
Describe how those rules were maintained or changed due to the turning point circumstance.
Describe a turning point or major event in a real or fictional family’s development that challenged members to reconsider their family rules.
1. Take a position on the following question: To what extent do family-of- origin patterns influence the communication patterns of future generations? Give examples to support your position.Identify three communication patterns that have been passed down across two generations to your family of
Explain the importance of family stories to family members’ everyday lives
Explain the seven functions of family stories
Compare and contrast the types of family communication networks
Illustrate the six functions of family secrets
Differentiate between regulative and constitutive family communication rules
Illustrate how language contributes to a family’s relational culture
Describe a situation in which information about a family member who believed she or he owned the information, became known to others outside the family. Explain how the family managed boundary turbulence and altered their privacy rules.
Reflecting on a couple you know, explain how these partners attempt to communicate and manage two different dialectical contradictions or struggles. Give examples.
Identify one or more significant narratives that serve to create family meaning (values, identity) and reflect the family to others in a real or fictional family.
Using social construction, describe how a family negotiates what it means to be close to the family at different stages of life.
Using a real or fictional family, describe its calibrated level for acceptable conflict behaviors as described in the systems perspective.Describe attempts to recalibrate conflict communication using the concepts of maintenance or change-promoting feedback processes.
Using the systems terminology, describe how a change in one member of a real or fictional family affected the other family members.
Analyze how families develop and coordinate privacy rules and boundaries
Characterize how narratives and stories affect and reflect family dynamics
Use relational dialectics to analyze how family meanings emerge through the process of contradiction
Explain how individuals and family members interact and socially construct meanings
Illustrate how the components of a system (interdependence, patterns, punctuation, openness, equifinality) guide family communication
7. Identify significant communication patterns that have been passed from your parents' families of origin. To what extent have you accepted or rejected these patterns? You may also choose to discuss how communication patterns pass through generations in a work of fiction.
6. Identify three communication patterns characterizing a real or fictional stepfamily. Identify and describe how key communication patterns or themes from a first family moved into the new family configuration or were dropped.
5. How might one of the themes in your family, or a family you know, play out in family communication patterns? What image, boundaries, and biosocial issues might support that theme?
4. Using a real or fictional family, give an example of how the family moved from one point on the cohesion-flexibility grid to another point due to changes in their lives. Discuss any changes in their interaction patterns.
3. Describe and give examples of three behaviors that might characterize an enmeshed family and three examples of behavior that might characterize a disengaged family.
2. Describe a recurring interaction pattern in a real or fictional family focusing on the predictable verbal and nonverbal messages. Describe the effect of this interaction pattern on the persons involved, or on the family as a whole (e.g., the way a teenager gets permission to take the car for the
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