Under Pressure!

Yes I used a  song title to do this blog! So! This was a very interesting week to see and I am going to explain the family systems theory!

What the family system theory is it is a theory that helps marriage therapists to discover the relationship between family members. So here is what I am going to have you do  is Put down M for mom and D for dad Now I am going to explain a little what this is all about. Were going to model what a family relationship  happens under stress using this Model. Now this model is to help us see the relationship between the family so for right now I would like you to make a circle using dashes around the Mom and Dad signifying that they have a open and close relationship with each other make sure you put them pretty close to each other. Now when doing the circle with the dotted line try to make them pretty even spaced showing that yes they have a good relationship with each other but enough to where they don't let other people know the personal things thats going on. Now were going to use this model  so imagine that something bad happens to this couple putting them under stress. Now in this case the couple begin to fight what I want you to do is draw a dashed line but some what smaller between  the two. now in this case we see that this fight has caused them to put something between the two for what ever reason the two slowly move apart. It can be things like these that can put a family under stress and you can see that it splits the relationship with the two making it so that its a little stressed.  Were  going to fix that line now so go ahead and erase it the couple  fixed the problems they were having.

This model also works with larger families one you do this keep in mind your own relationship and put them in accordingly whether your closer to some or not when you do that space yourself out showing your relationship also I talked a little about dashed lines there is another kind of lines which are solid which signifies that your relationship is closed off to others usually this is negative where you do that where you don't want to take part  with them.

This part of the class helped me to see how stressors can effect families and how there is a need to repair damages done in order for the family to be one solid unit. This was a very fascinating lesson which helped me to understand how family system theory works under stressed families.