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FAMILY MEDIATION:DE-CONSTRUCTION of a COMPLEXITY by Marinés Suares

4.2.2: The new life cycle (Steinglass)

 
It has been developed by this author in his book  "The alcoholic family". It has the advantage that it is possible to apply it both to families that are constituted for the first time and to those that re-marry. He considers that every family has to go through stages, some of them may even go through the three of them. They are classified according to three variables: routines, rituals and the way of dealing with conflicts. At each stage the family has specific tasks.

The stages are:

1) Initial stage. It is a time for great negotiations. The identity of the family is constituted at this stage.

2) Middle stage. It is the time for growing for all the members of the family. Family themes have already been set at the previous stage and the family has already obtained its identity, and it can now devote all its energy to develop it.

3) Final stage. It is a stage where what has been accomplished and what has not been accomplished is analyzed; so, it may be a stage of changes. There is a central interest that is concerned with the legacy they want to leave.

This life cycle is revealing for those mediators who, while working in divorce or post-divorce, have not gone through this painful experience in their own lives and find it difficult to understand the disputes generated in the creation of the second family.

Besides, the stress that the author puts on routines, rituals and way of dealing with conflicts as elements that have to do with the construction of the family's identity, leads us -as mediators- to pay more attention to these issues.

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