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A family life cycle is a study tool that helps the family counselors better plan the interventions and counseling to eliminate intricacies that might become the reasons for their illnesses in the future. This paper aims to explain the elucidating family life cycle stages and the transition from one phase to another so that the biological and behavioral linkages help understand the healthy development of the family.
The knowledge of the family life cycle helps in gaining a deeper understanding of the emotional and intellectual stages of a person who has a family. Different family life cycle stages are independence, getting married, becoming parents, induction of adult children into their own lives, and retirement or aging years (Neighbour, 1985). Family therapists and counselors can use this useful framework so that the normative transitions of the family connections at each age and stage could help give insight to the counselors about the psychological intervention or clinical intermediations to children and adults distinctly and effectively.
The deeper or more distorted the connections, the relative impacts would be framed correspondingly. Also, the irregular variations in the life stages of the family cycle give a pattern to the counselors for studying the periodicity of the family development. The stages that help the family grow healthily and the individual family life cycle stages are interconnected. This association supports the development of each...
Though the family life cycle is universal anatomy that could be applied to all families of the world, each family is different and encounters this cycle in its unique manner.
An example of a family where the newly married couple is expecting a child, and the in-laws are excited about their son having their first child could be an interesting stage of the family life cycle. The in-laws would be at stage four or five, where they have launched their son in adulthood, and he has begun his new stage of life, which is his marriage. The son is at his third stage of the family life cycle, becoming parents. However, certain complications are faced by the new wife, who is now expecting for the second time and had faced miscarriage during her first conceiving.
The family counselor who has expertise in marriage and couple counseling gave suggestions of avoiding stress for the newly conceived wife and keeping her fears away from losing her second child again. The family counselor advised the new couple to stay calm and keep the environment at home comfortable for the expecting mother, especially from the in-laws. They do not utter hurtful words about her first miscarriage that might hurt her and produce further distress, which is risky for her health. The family counselor might also recommend the wife to good doctors who might give her healthy medication and advise to keep her in fine fettle.
The role of wellness in the family life cycle is imperative. For example, older adults require more attention and care in their aging years as they are more prone…
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