PSYCH 347 Family Processes: Psychology of the Family
The course attempts to deepen students’ understanding of the ways in which families function and how the person is defined in relation to family origin. Students will study their own families within a multigenerational family systems perspective through text and research reading, experiential exercises, film and videotape. Structural and theoretical developments in the field will be used to broaden the students’ knowledge beyond their own family structure, and topics will include: the family-life cycle, effects of sibling position, comparative models of family functioning, uses of the genogram, single-parent, step and reconstituted family structures, triangles, and intergenerational transmission processes.