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in Context = in the Context of the book?

 
 
Reply Sat 19 Nov, 2011 11:52 pm

Context:

Family Communication in Context
Systems theory provides a root metaphor for thinking about family interactions as well as language for talking about ongoing changing family interactions with other human systems [7]. In the case of a family member’s cancer diagnosis, systems theory is particularly apt and useful. Family therapist Virginia Satir [8] used the image of a mobile to describe a family system because as circumstances impact one or more
members of the family, the other members reverberate in response to the change in the affected members. When individuals form families they also create family systems through their interaction patterns. Such human systems reflect characteristics of interdependence, patterns, interactive complexity, mutual influence,

More:

http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=fPZrewEb2KEC&pg=PA151&lpg=PA151&dq=%22Equifinality+is+a+concept+central+to+family+systems%22&source=bl&ots=dwIkTeiaty&sig=eJUeTL_q6h56aGS2l5N0N2QeI_A&hl=zh-CN&ei=r1TITt_NBeSQiAfysqzgDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=true
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Reply Sun 20 Nov, 2011 09:39 am
Hard to say . . . it just may be the title of the reading. There it would mean "within the family unit.'

It also may mean 'within a certain subject matter.'

(I did not read the link)

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contrex
 
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Reply Sun 20 Nov, 2011 09:54 am
In the context of other human systems.
oristarA
 
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Reply Sun 20 Nov, 2011 10:27 am
@contrex,
contrex wrote:

In the context of other human systems.



Splendid!

How did you get it?
contrex
 
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Reply Sun 20 Nov, 2011 01:53 pm
@oristarA,
oristarA wrote:

How did you get it?


1. The heading.

2. The first sentence of this type of piece often expands on the heading or title.

3. I know what "context" means. It is not just a word used in connection with writing. People operate within a social context.

Family Communication in Context

Systems theory provides a root metaphor for thinking about family interactions as well as language for talking about ongoing changing family interactions with other human systems. In the case of a family member’s cancer diagnosis, systems theory is particularly apt and useful. Family therapist Virginia Satir [8] used the image of a mobile to describe a family system because as circumstances impact one or more
members of the family, the other members reverberate in response to the change in the affected members. When individuals form families they also create family systems through their interaction patterns. Such human systems reflect characteristics of interdependence, patterns, interactive complexity, mutual influence,
oristarA
 
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Reply Sun 20 Nov, 2011 09:30 pm
@contrex,
contrex wrote:

oristarA wrote:

How did you get it?


1. The heading.

2. The first sentence of this type of piece often expands on the heading or title.

3. I know what "context" means. It is not just a word used in connection with writing. People operate within a social context.

Family Communication in Context

Systems theory provides a root metaphor for thinking about family interactions as well as language for talking about ongoing changing family interactions with other human systems. In the case of a family member’s cancer diagnosis, systems theory is particularly apt and useful. Family therapist Virginia Satir [8] used the image of a mobile to describe a family system because as circumstances impact one or more
members of the family, the other members reverberate in response to the change in the affected members. When individuals form families they also create family systems through their interaction patterns. Such human systems reflect characteristics of interdependence, patterns, interactive complexity, mutual influence,



Excellent!

Thank you. And thanks to PUNKEY as well for joining.


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