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DISTANT BUT OH SO NEAR! GEOGRAPHICALLY-DISPERSED HIGHLY CONNECTED FAMILIES
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Ana Sayfa > Seçtiğiniz Site Kısmı > VIII. EFTA AVRUPA AİLE TERAPİSİ DERNEĞİ KONGRESİ > SUB PLENARY > |
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College of Health and Human Services, Department of Global and Community Health & George Mason University, School of Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Fairfax and Arlington, VA, United States
The human family, while anchored by basic attachments with important evolutionary caveats, is a rather malleable system: Its shape, components and expectations evolve as the context changes. New family forms continue to appear throughout history old and recent, challenging our descriptions, habits, tools and prejudices.
A case in point: The current ease for geographic mobility, combined with the increase in the average survival age of its members and the proliferation of communication technology –cell phones, Skype, websites, and the sort--, has allowed for the emergence of families that retains intense and persistent intergenerational and intra-generational connection while members live geographically distant. Family narratives built, influenced, retained or changed within a system with fluid boundaries challenges our skills as therapists.
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