Binding and Loosing in the Course of a Career: The Three Important Psychological Stages of Development in and of the Family Cover Image

Binden und Lösen im Lebenslauf: Drei psychologische Stationen zur Entwicklung der Familie und in der Familie
Binding and Loosing in the Course of a Career: The Three Important Psychological Stages of Development in and of the Family

Author(s): Andreas Wittrahm
Subject(s): Developmental Psychology, Family and social welfare
Published by: Semmelweis Egyetem Mentálhigiéné Intézet
Keywords: parenthood; caregiving; puberty; attachment theory; development; autonomy; intimate relationship; filial crisis; empathy; relationship patterns

Summary/Abstract: At certain stages of everyone’s career the family constitutes the most important milieu of physical, psychological and social development. However, it is important for family members to change not only as individuals but together as a family in order to ensure that they can mutually help, strengthen and support each other in certain situations and at certain stages of life. For that, families and individual family members need internal and external resources, social confidence and participation on the one hand, and capability for emotional res onance on the other. When a family is established, at the birth of the first child, during the transition period when children reach young adulthood until they leave home, and, finally, at the time when elderly children provide care for their very old parents, valuable family resources and the necessary family competencies become particularly visible.

  • Issue Year: 10/2015
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 190-200
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: German