How do family systems practitioners view knowledge of the family life cycle?
a. Each of the events in the family life cycle affects all family members. Understanding these predictable shifts in family dynamics provides useful insights to practitioners.
b. Practitioners endeavor to understand each unique family system, ignoring generalizations such as family life cycles.
c. Systems practitioners focus more on individual psychosocial development than on the family life cycle.
d. Most crises that affect families are not related to life cycle development. As a result, systems practitioners study impacts of crime, violence, chronic illness, and so forth on family members.
Answer: a
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