STAGE NINE STAGE SCHEMA EIGHT STAGE CYCLE FIVE STAGE CYCLE SIX STAGE CYCLE

EVELYN DUVALL (1957) CARTER AND MCGOLDRICK (1999); (MORE RECENT AUTHORS) LAUER & LAUER (2004); GOLDENBERG & GOLDENBERG,
CARR (2006) CITED IN HARDED 2002

- Distinctive role complex - Experience with FAMILY ORIGIN - Easier to understand - Most widely used model
- Based on age of children - 1. Maintaining relationships - Based more on the different
- Can overlap depending on the - 2. Completing education developments of the family
number of children - 3. Developing foundations of family life

1 Establishment Family Origin Independence 1: Young unattached adult

- Seeing oneself as a separate person - From reliance on family to acceptance of emotional and
- Intimate peer relationship outside the financial responsibility
family - Parent- offspring separation
- Work and career
Therapy due to:
Qualities: - Weak sense of self
- Trust - Inability to separate
- Morals - Lack of social skills
- Initiative
- Work Ethic Health issues:
- Identity - Proper nutrition
- Fitness
- Safe sex

2 New parents (0 - 3 y/o)
Leaving Home Coupling or Marriage (Newly Married
Couple)
- Advanced interpersonal communication
- Problem-solving skills
- Spiritual and Emotional development
goals
- Boundaries in relationship
- Other person above own
- INTERDEPENDENCE OF
RELATIONSHIP
2: Newly married couple
- Commitment to new system
- Tend to test their compatibility and idealize relationship
- Most comfortable with same developmental level
- Adjustment and Accommodation
Therapy due to:
- Inability to adjust
- Difficult relatives
- Inability to develop effective communication
- Children

Health issues:
- Pregnancy
- Childbirth

3 Pre-school children (3 - 6 y/o) Pre-marriage Parenting 3: Young children

- Accepting marital system to make space for children
- Dramatic changes in lifestyle
- Strong marital bonds

Therapy due to:

- Inability to recognize and restructure
- Differences on raising

Health issues:
- Childhood illness
- Immunization
- Preventive health
4 School age children (6 - 12 y/o)
Childless couple Launching adult with children 4: Midlife: Adolescent and Aging parents
- Increasing flexibility in boundaries
- Children independence and Grandparents’ frailties
- MOST ACTIVE AND EXCITING STAGE
- Sandwich generation

Health issues:
- Gender identity
- Sexual orientation

5 Teen age or Adolescent Young children Retirement to senior years 5: Launching children and moving on
(13 - 19 y/o) - Accepting a multitude of entrance and exits
- Empty nest

Therapy due to:

- Sense of loss of self
- Frustration and anger over marriage and career ambitions

Health issues:
- HTN
- HD
- Arthritis
- Osteoporosis
- Menopause
- Weight

6 Late adolescents (20 y/o until first Adolescents 6: Family in later years
child leaves home) - Accepting shifting of generational goals
- Young: 65
- Old: 75
- Oldest: > 85

Therapy due to:

- Lack of meaning
- Aging
- Lack of quality relationships

Health issues:
- Chronic illness
- Degenerative conditions

7 Launching family Launching family

8 Middle aged parents = Empty nest Family in later years

9 Aging family - Retirement to Death