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Family Midterm: Family Rules and Health A general overview of the rules and family health lecture is based on family communication that focuses on health related topics. For example, talking to kids about sex and alcohol abuse, responsibilities of taking care of an aging member of the family, social support, and briefly mentions how people grieve differently after a family member passes away. During the class lecture I have chosen three concepts/ideas I consider important to help discuss the CPM theory. The first idea that I have chosen is the Life Span Perspective, which focuses on how we adapt our communication behaviors based on the changes that family’s experience throughout the lifespan (Turner & West, 2006). For example, when a child …show more content…

In the CPM theory Coordinating Mutual Boundaries are very important to help manage secrets as a family (Huisman, 2017). For coordinating boundaries you have to trust your family that they will follow the rules that are provided. How family communicate is based on what rules and guidelines they set for the family. The CPM theory explores how coordinating boundaries and maintaining those boundaries of a family that wants to conceal secrets regarding the health of a family member, is worth exploring because how far will a family go to keep a family secret. For example, looking at the CPM theory and coordinating boundaries to make sure a secret about a sibling being bipolar and what the family does to keep that a secret. If the secret gets out, how will the family repair and coordinate the boundaries that have been broken. This theory can help us understand how a family maintains secrets and how a family works together as a whole to keep secrets only in the …show more content…

CPM theory helps us understand why family health secrets are kept and maintained and how the family communicates boundaries. But the theory does not go in depth of how to repair those boundaries if they are broken and are in need of repair. For Coordinating Mutual Boundaries and Boundary Turbulence it does not explain how to specifically repair the broken boundaries. Also, the concepts of CPM theory does not helps us understand the rules of communicating with children about sex and substance abuse. Not to mention that CPM is about maintaining secrets and family health is such a broad topic that CPM only covers how to maintain secrets. CPM limits us in understanding family communication about rules and family health because CPM focuses on how to maintain private information, but limits us to understand the responsibility of taking care of an aging parent and how that change impacts the family communication and

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