DIS 499/599: Overview: Module 1: Topic 1: Lesson
Week 2: 1/21 -27
Objectives:
* To demonstrate interconnections of members in a family system
* To create awareness of the impact of a crisis on balances in a family system
To complete this assignment successfully, you should read the following
Online Lesson:
If you have seen the John Bradshaw TV series on the family you will remember that he refers to the family as a mobile. When a stress or demand is made on one member of the family, it can be compared to pulling on one part of a mobile. Every other part of the mobile will jump around. If the stress is released, the balance returns. If something is changed, like a weight put on one part of the mobile, when the balances are restored, the other parts of the mobile will be in a different place from where they started. Families are like that. When something traumatic happens to one or more of the family members, everything will be knocked out of balance. Over time the balances will reestablish themselves, but not necessarily in the same place as before. Everyone is connected and responsive.
This lesson was created by Susan Yuan, PhD, for "Family Support, Self-Determination and Disability" and is used here with her permission.
Once you have completed this activity you should:
Go on to Online Reading
or
Go back to Topic 1
Email the instructor: Becky.Raabe@nau.edu.
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