Test Bank The Expanded Family Life Cycle, 4th Edition Monica McGoldrick A=

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SELF IN CONTEXT
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND THE INDIVIDUAL LIFE CYCLE IN SYSTEMIC
PERSPECTIVE

CHAPTER SUMMARY

• Healthy development requires establishing a solid sense of our cultural, spiritual, and psychological identity in the context of our connections to others. This involves developing a sense of belonging or “home.”
• American culture heavily emphasizes individualism, autonomy, and self-determination to the neglect of viewing the self in the context of relations with others. It also minimally acknowledges how structured inequalities create differential life
• Maturity requires developing the capacity to communicate with, understand, and relate to others in empathic, respectful, tolerant, and caring ways while communicating and standing by one’s values, beliefs, and
• Traditional developmental theories overemphasize typically male traits such as autonomy and independence while devaluing typically female traits like connection and
• Differences between males and females often are explained via biology and/or the impact of being raised by mothers, while minimizing societal and cultural
• The expanded lif