FAMILY

STRUCTURES AND
LEGACIES
1.ADOLESCENCE

a crucial period in the parent – child

relationship
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If the parents fail to establish fidelity,
adolscentsmay develop diffidence
- Feist & Feist 2018

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 Positive elements of
parental care
1. PARENTS WHO ARE POSITIVE BEHAVIORAL ROLE MODELS AND
TRANSMITTERS OF VALUES

2. PARENTS WHO PROVIDE EMOTIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL

SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGEMENT

3. PARENTS WHO MONITOR THEIR CHILDREN BUT STILL

PROMOTE AUTONOMY AND INDEPENDENCE

4. PARENTS WHO ENABLE AND NURTURE OPEN COMMNICATION

AMONG MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY
 NEGATIVE ELEMENTS
OF PARENTAL CARE
1. Parents who engage in substance
abuse, violence, and inability to resolve
conflicts
2. Parents who maltreat their children
wether emotionally and physically
3. Parents who lack attachment to their
children
4. Parents who lack in monitoring their
children’s behaavior and well-being
AUTHORITARIAN
Authoritarian parents express
little affection to their
children
Permissive
parents
These type of parents are
warm but they set no clear
rules for their children
AUTHORITATIVE
THEY ARE FIRM AND WARM AND
SET LIMITS WITH THEIR
CHILDREN
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Diana Baumrand’s theory on parenting
styles consider the influence on warmth and
control in the way parents raise their
children

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UNINVOLVED/NEGLECTFUL

THEY EXPRESS LITTLE INTEREST

IN THEIR CHILDREN
A GENOGRAM IS A GRAPHICAL
REPRESENTATION OF FAMILY
RELATIONSHIP
WAYS OF IMPROVING
FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS
• COMMUNICATE
• LEARN TO APPRECIATE
• SHARE ACTIVITIES
• BE COMMITED
• SHOW SUPPORT TO EACH OTHER
• ACCEPT EACH MEMBER AS HE/SHE IS
COMMUNICATION IN
FILIPINO FAMILIES
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Many Filipino families seldom talk to each
other especially during times of crisis
- Carandang, 1987

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Understanding family
issues and challenges
TAGASALO or the
caretaker

These children mature faster and

becore more responsible adults
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Adler believes that CREATIVE POWER
empowers each person to develop his/her
own style of life

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Adler’s theory on family constellations
proposes that the personality of family
members are influenced by the position they
occupy in the family

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First born
children

They can become leaders with helpful

social values or assume dominant
styles to lead to discomfort
Second born
children
Often the most spoiled and pampered
having been lavished with much
attention in their growing up years
Only child

Lives in an adult world and

competes against his/her
mother