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FAMILY PSYCHODYNAMICS Semester
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DR. PERET-CLARION
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INTERPERSONAL DYNAMICS
FAMILY PATTERNS
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➢ Alcoholism
➢ Drug abuse
FAMILY SUBSYSTEM
➢ Financial difficulty
➢ Serious illness
➢ Formed wherein 2 or more family ➢ Mental problem
members exclude the rest of the ➢ Marital discord
family ➢ Frequent absence of father
➢ Most subgroup consists of 2
A secure and supportive family gives comfort
individuals who pair up to form an
and strength to its members in times of stress
entity called DYAD
➢ Purposes: maintaining discipline
➢ Alliance could be temporary or
permanent EQUILIBRIUM
PERMANENT ALLIANCE
➢ The capacity to maintain effective
➢ Created for the purpose of defending
functioning under constantly changing
against others
condition
➢ Seriously disrupt a family’s functional
➢ A state of family homeostasis in which
adaptive capacity
member interaction results in
➢ Disruptive and distorts the normal
emotional and physical nurturing,
balance of family relationship
thus promoting growth of family
members and the family unit
FAMILY HOMEOSTASIS
FAMILY STABILITY
➢ Ability to maintain constant state in
the midst of a continuous interplay of
➢ Family remains the central refuge
internal and external forces
where all its members feel secure and
relaxed DISTURBED BY:
➢ Serves as a source of security in the
>Sudden socio-cultural change
midst of a fast-moving, stressful, and
chaotic world -Immigration from one culture to
➢ An essential feature of raising children another
to become secure individuals
➢ Family is the first level of support for -Unexpected alteration in
individual family members in the position on the social ladder
attempt to cope with the stresses of >Role change
daily living
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DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY
ROLES THAT THE CHILDREN IN DYSFUNCTIONAL
FAMILIES DEVELOP
> The essence of a dysfunctional family is
that the parents are unable to meet the THE SCAPEGOAT
emotional needs of their children (Core
needs: Purpose, Love/Acceptance, Value) ➢ Tends to blame others, makes strong
peer alliances, ad is often disciplined
>Emotional problems and difficulties as by teachers or other adults for
adults can be the result of individuals being breaking rules
raised in dysfunctional families
THE HERO
>A dysfunctional family is an unhealthy place
where family members adopt destructive ➢ Always volunteering, very responsible
behaviors in order to cope with pain, and manifests a drive, almost a
suffering, fear, and loneliness compulsion, to be on top
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student likes to hide, makes faces, ➢ The husband’s ego strength and
pull the chair from someone else, borderline maturity rely upon the
otherwise act out continuation of this relationship
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susceptibility to diseases and can also There are 5 major forms of family
affect the child’s IQ disorganization
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➢ DEMORALIZATION
-A crisis that occurs when a family 1. Family stability returns to normal
member initiated a change in a level
previously ordained family moral code 2. Family improved after resolution
3. Family stability suffers and never
Example: School suspension, returns to its former level
alcoholism, drug abuse, deliquency, >In order to obtain a good response pattern,
infidelity an essential feature in the family response is
to have adequate resources
➢ STATUS CHANGE
-Crisis involving gain or loss of wealth, >Different families respond to the challenge
power, or position in the family or of a stressful life event in dofferent ways
extra familial society
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RESOURCES
➢ Assests that serve to nurture an DEFENSE MECHANISMS
individual and those that supply the
means for solving stressor-induced
problems ➢ Ways to behave or think to protect or
➢ Familial, extra-familial, social, cultural, ‘defend’ ourselves from anxieties
religious, economic, environmental, ➢ How we distance ourselves from a full
and medical support system awareness of unpleasant thoughts,
feelings, and behaviors
*Coping: refers to adjustment by the ➢ While all defense mechanisms can be
family to stressors within and outside unhealthy, they can also be adaptive
the family (ex: changes resulting and allow us to function normally
from the illness of one of its ➢ The greatest problems are when
members) defense mechanisms are overused
CRISIS
➢ State of family disequilibrium tha DENIAL
results from the failure of an
➢ Seeing but refusing to acknowledge
individual to identiy or use resources
what one sees and hear but negates
to resolve a stressor induced problem
what is actually being heard
MALADAPTATION
DISPLACEMENT
➢ The use of pathologic defense
➢ Involves purposeful, unconsccious
mechanisms to escape from an
shiting from one object to another to
unresolved crisis, resulting in a state
the interest of solving a conflict
of impaired emotional and social
functioning IDENTIFICATION
PATHOLOGIC DISEQUILIBRIUM ➢ Actually plays a crucial role in ego
development, but can be used as a
defense mechanism when a person
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SUBLIMATION
➢ Redirecting or acting out
unacceptable impulses or ‘wrong’
urges into socially acceptable actions
➢ Sign of maturity
Example: A person experiencing
extreme anger may take up
boxing/kickboxing. As a means vening
out frustation
SUPPRESSION
➢ Consciously forcing the unwanted
information out of conscious
awareness
COMPENSATION
➢ Process of counterbalancing
percieved weakness by emphasizing
strength in other areas
ALTRIUSM
➢ Satisfying internal needs through.
helping others
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