Family Influences: Lifespan Development, Life Lines

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Family InfluencesLifespan Development, Life
Lines Genograms (Family Trees)
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Objectives

• Personal Career Vision Papers Due
• Lifespan Development Influences
• Genograms
• Life Lines
• Personal Career Vision Presentations

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Influences
Family
Co-workers
Friends
Romantic Relationships
Culture / Society
Others ?
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Lifespan Development

• What influences did you have in your life growing
  up?
• How many of those influences are still impacting
  you now as an adult?

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Development in Children

• Completely dependent on family
• Start to develop personal values interests but
  still influenced by family others
• Develop stereotypes (gender, race, career)
• TV programs, books and fantasy role play
• Exposed to our parents careers other visible
  career fields (policeman, nurse, teacher)

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When You Were a Child

• What did you want to be when you grew up?
• What didnt you want to do based on what you
  heard from your parents?
• When I grow up (monster.com)
• http//www.ifilm.com/video/2423870

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Development in Adolescence

• Pressure to declare education or career goals
• Romantic relationships gender-role
  socialization affect decisions
• Develop skills experiences that shape the
  direction of your interests
• Social influence peer pressure
• Struggle for independence

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Adolescent Influences

• What additional influences affected you as a teen
  outside of family?

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Development in College

• Pressure to follow through with decisions (major,
  career direction, grad school)
• Separation from family toward independence
• Balance autonomy (self-direction) and dependence
  (need for financial other help)
• New affiliations (religious, political, social)

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Chi TschangeResisting Parents Pressure

• Chi graduated from Yale and decided to teach
  underprivileged children instead of going to Law
  or Business school like all of his friends. His
  father pretty much disowned him for his choices.
  He moved to the U.S. to give Chi opportunity.
• Is he obliged to secure the riches, prestige,
  and job security that his ancestors never dreamt
  of? Does he owe that to his family and his
  heritage? Or is this opportunity a chance for
  more than material gain is it a chance to do
  something great, to be great?

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Legally Blonde

• Elle Warner are graduating from college soon.
  She thinks their big night out is for him to
  propose, but he has other plans
• What influences are affecting each of their
  decisions (family, society)?

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Development in Adulthood (20s)

• Focus on meeting basic needs, establishing a
  career family
• Conflict between the desire for stability
  exploration in first real job
• Relationship with career mentors
• Detaching from parents living on our own
• Expectation to marry start a family
• Struggle between working or staying at home

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Lori GottliebStimulation/Intensity vs
Significance/Fulfillment

• Lori rejected the model of her father, who
  ground it out as a stockbroker. Fifty years with
  the same firm, his motto was work is a
  four-letter work.
• Are there things that you will reject from your
  influences as you enter the world of work?

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Development in Adulthood (30s 40s)

• Focus on what is missing in our lives
• Reappearance of confusion self-doubt regarding
  obligations unfulfilled personal desires
• May realize the reward we expected havent
  materialized start another career
• Reevaluate career, life and relationship goals
  and then revise our priorities
• Families may be bonding or breaking up and need
  to rebalance their needs

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Jessica GrossmanLacking and Off Switch Always
Knew it

• She always knew she wanted to practice medicine
  her father was a famous cardiologist although
  he never pressured her, he was a great role
  model. Years later when she finally left medicine
  she asked how people manage to not feel like
  that first part of their life was anything but a
  complete waste of time? If the genuine part of
  their life came later, what of this early part?
• Po responded they learn from it. As long as they
  are able to transform it into a lesson which they
  can now apply.
• What do you think?

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Development in Adulthood (50s )

• May be able retire early
• Focus shifts away from work
• Concern about approaching retirement (funding,
  loss of social contacts structure)
• Create opportunities to replace work and fill our
  needs for socialization, intellectual challenge,
  creativity, self-worth, exercise
• Target of age prejudice, jealousy con-men

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What About Society Influences?
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Work Values
Higher Education Research Institute (2007).
Spirituality in Higher Education A National
Study of College Students Search for Meaning
and Purpose. Presentation Jan 11, 2007 by
Jennifer Lindholm, PhD. UCLA.
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How Stereotypes Hurt Us

• At all ages, we can be affected by stereotypes
  and prejudice. This clip from 20/20 shows how
  certain stereotypes and prejudices can affect us
  negatively or positively.
• How have you been affected/influenced by
  stereotypes or others around you?

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• Agriculture
• Industrial Revolution
• Technology !

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Uncovering YOUR Influences

• Life Line
• Geno-Sociogram

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Life Line Assignment

• To get you thinking about the experiences and
  choices that have affected your career
  development, create a life line and include any
  significant points or people that have influenced
  you and your decisions. Also include a
  hypothetical future that you anticipate (10pts).
• Write a brief reaction (1-2 pages) to your
  insights and how contextualizing your life line
  might affect your future decisions (10 pts).

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Example
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Genogram

• A visual representation of our significant
  influences a family tree.
• Includes at least 3 generations.
• Shows how different members are biologically
  legally related throughout generations.

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Purpose of Genograms

• Present complex material in a concise and
  understandable way
• Gain insight about your relatives yourself
• Detect patterns throughout generations
• culture, religion, locations, medical or
  psychological conditions, substance abuse,
  domestic abuse, significant life events or
  stressors, career choice, etc
• Determine if life changes are needed

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Geno-Sociogram Interpretation

• Significant Influences in your life
• Relevance of birth order on emotional and
  relational roles in family
• Family expectations (was there a trend in
  careers?)
• Determine patterns across generations
  (creativity, resilience, strengths, alcoholism,
  suicide, success)
• Find trends, cycles, and insight about your own
  tendencies

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Genogram Assignment

• Understand your family and significant influences
  
• Create a diagram of your family tree to include
  three generations (you, your parents and
  grandparents add children if you have them).
  Include names, dates, and their primary and/or
  preferred career choices (10pts).
• Write a brief reaction (1-2 pages) to the
  insights gained and whether or not this
  understanding of your family history helped you
  understand the influences in your life and your
  own career choice better (10pts).

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Group Activity

• Who were/are the 2-3 people who have influenced
  your life the most?
• How did these people affect your career
  decisions?
• What experiences have affected your life/career
  path?

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Career Vision Presentations

• In 2-3 minutes, tell us about
• Your ideal career(s)
• How reality limits your vision
• Do your career goals change when faced with
  reality?
• How can we help you follow your passion?

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For next week

• Grad School Admissions
• Read Bronson Ch 11 13
• Tim Stephen both came from working class
  families fought to prove their success to
  others
• Guest Speakers Admissions Coordinators from
  Education, Law, and Business
• Career Showcase Reaction Papers due