Family Theory Family Theory Studying the family Conceptual frameworks are a set of interconnected ideas, concepts, and assumptions that help to organize thinking from a particular perspective.
Theory contains general principles that are composed on interrelated concepts.
Concepts Wholeness - greater than the sum of parts. Interdependence - Virginia Satir used the example of the mobile to describe the family. Everything is a delicate balance and if you take a piece off the mobile it effects the entire rest of the mobile - making it lopsided. Balancing change - equilibrium is the idea that the family actively works to keep things in balance. It does this by resisting change, the use of feedback to control the behavior of family members, creating rules to maintain balance and a host of other techniques.