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This 5 page paper examines the differences between functional and dysfunctional families. Furthermore, this paper highlights the importance of overcoming obstacles created within the dysfunctional family framework. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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to place somewhere within a range that is representative of both kinds of behaviors. Therefore, understanding families is more a process of understanding the propensity such a family has
toward certain behaviors than it is to define it as entirely one or the other. In other words, there are some families that are healthier than others.
Stoop and Masteller (2004) provide readers with a systems approach to the understanding of families, in their notable, Forgiving Our Parents, Forgiving Ourselves:
Healing Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families. These authors work to remove many of the preconceived notions that many of us harbor in regards to family systems. In this
way, we are reminded that each and every family member plays a distinct and significant role in the family unit, and therefore to understand the family is to understand the
individual contributions of each of its members. It is from this awareness that the reader evolves to the understanding of dysfunction within
the family unit, and how and why it occurs. The realization that the family is composed of individuals reminds us that we all interact based upon one another.
Actions and behaviors therefore are at least partially the result of the inherent relationships that exist within the family. These authors
make it clear that it is impossible to react to a family in the linear way we often react to other happenings in life. We cannot neatly box the
actions and behaviors of the family into precise definitions that are able to be understood as either entirely healthy or entirely dysfunctional. In practice, what this means is that
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