MARRIAGE GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING

Subject Code

MGG2601

Assignment

01

Due Date

02 APRIL 2013

Assignment Unique Number

298702

Student Number

43606733

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction to the family…………………………………………………………………………………………………2
Outline the family life cycle model………………………………………………………………………………….3
Identify the stage of the family life cycle that best resembles the stage
Of the family that the couple is experiencing……………………………………………………………..6
Key Principles and second order changes the family is experiencing………………………6
The extent to which the couple’s family life cycle adheres to Carter and
McGoldrick’s Model…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….7
The couple’s experiences pertaining to the preceding developmental stage
Of the family life cycle…………………………………………………………………………………………………….8
Vertical Stressors……………………………………………………………………………………………………………..9
Horizontal Stressors……………………………………………………………………………………………………….10
System Level Stressors………………………………………………………………………………………………….11
The Couple’s Relationship Strengths……………………………………………………………………………11
Guidelines for couples…………………………………………………………………………………………………….13
Critique of the family life cycle model……………………………………………………………………….14
Bibliography………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………16
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Introduction to the family
1. I interviewed a young couple, the husband Bongai Jinguri, is thirty two years old. He is a
Chartered Accountant working for a very reputable accounting firm in Harare. Bongai’s beautiful young wife is Lorraine, who is twenty nine years old. Lorraine is also an accountant. They met when Lorraine was an articled clerk at the accounting firm where
Bongai used to work. Lorraine, who is a new mother, is doing consultancy work from home. She is the mother of a ten month old, adorable angelic baby boy Tadiwa Anatsa.
Bongai and Lorraine belong to the young generation of Zimbabweans, who are very
westernised