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When my daughters told me how disappointed they were that after all their hard work in college, they would not be having a graduation ceremony in May 2020, I acknowledged their concerns, accepted their feelings, and offered support.  In other words, I tried to communicate in ways that validate and respect them.  This is called __________.

An aversive emotion that may involve negative thoughts and feelings of insecurity, anger, sadness, and fear induced by the threat or actual loss of a relationship with another person is a definition of _______.

Spending time together can be a relational currency.

A family has a past, and a present, that includes some kind of sharing and contact, and a future that includes the expectation of continuing the relationship.

Providing for individual development, providing for kinship maintenance, and providing basic resources are all examples of:

Family __________ are recurring patterns of behavior developed through the social interactions that family members enact in order to fulfill family functions. 

Kennedy’s parents always taught her that saying “Yes Ma’am” and “Yes Sir” is a sign of respect. But, Kennedy is NOT required to refer to her parents using these words.  The instructions on when and how (and to whom) to speak respectfully represent:

To fully understand a family system the focus is placed on individual family members first.

Fast forward 10 years: Mark (with a K) is now married and has 5 children. Mark is a stay-at-home dad.  Much of his day consists of grocery shopping for his family, going on school field trips, and being President of the PTA. These are examples of:

Milo performs well in school and his parents stay off his case about schoolwork, his grades start slipping, his parents get on his case about schoolwork, Milo performs well in school and his parents stay off his case about schoolwork. We can only analyze this scenario depending on how we __________ it.