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Multicontextual Life Cycle
In this assignment, you will explain the Multicontextual Life Cycle Framework as well as completing a self-genogram of your family system. Complete the “Multicontextual Life Cycle Framework” worksheet. This assignment assesses the following programmatic competency: 6.1: Analyze the forms and functions of families at different developmental stages.
In order to analyze a family system, it is important to understand the multisystem structure. This assignment will help you learn this concept.
First, create a self-genogram of your family system, looking at it through the multisystem lens. Complete your family’s genogram and discuss your family system in terms of the family life cycle.
The genogram can be handwritten and scanned, done as a PDF, or done using Word tools to ensure it can be uploaded to LoudCloud. You can also go to the following site or another similar genogram site of your choice to download the GenPro software.
Use the different phases listed in Figure 1.5 of the textbook to look at both the emotional process of transition and the second order tasks (If you have a large family, pick six to eight key individuals including yourself to discuss). Relate this to what your family members are going through in their lives presently (you can include key moments of the past – someone passing away, going through cancer treatment, miscarriage, etc.):
- All family members
- Include ages (if known), marriages, divorces, deaths
- Substance use identified
- Mental illness identified
- All relationship dynamics
MHW-522: Multicontextual Life Cycle Framework Assignment
In order to understand the changes in the life span/developmental theory within the last few decades, complete the tables, explaining the stages and phases of the family life cycle including the second order tasks.
Use the textbook, assigned readings, and two to four additional scholarly sources to defend your answers.
| Family Life Cycle Stage | Key Principles of Emotional Process of Transition | Second-Order Changes Required to Proceed Developmentally |
| Young Children | ||
| Adolescents | ||
| Young Adults | ||
| Middle Adults | ||
| Older Adults |
Next, complete the following table that focuses on Family Life Cycle Phases.
| Family Life Cycle Phase | Key Principles of Emotional Process of Transition | Second-Order Changes Required to Proceed Developmentally |
| Emerging Young Adults | ||
| Newly Married Couples | ||
| Families with Young Children | ||
| Families with Adolescents | ||
| Middle Aged families dealing with retirement | ||
| Families dealing End of Life Issues |
Reflection Questions:
| After completing the tables, explain the possible cultural factors that play a major role in how families transition through the life cycle. (150-200 words) |
| Select two stages from the tables. Explain how society has influenced the changes in the life span/developmental theory of the selected stages. (200-250 words) |
| Select two of the life phases. For the selected phases, include feminist theory, patriarchy/gender expectations, social class, and economically fragile families in explaining the changes in these phases over the decades. (300-400 words) |
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