Trans-Generational Family Counselling and Management of Home Financial Constraints: A Case Study of Kampala Capital City Authority (Uganda)
- June 23, 2019
- Posted by: RSIS
- Category: Social Science
International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume III, Issue VI, June 2019 | ISSN 2454–6186
Ankwansiize Evarist1, Kiyingi Frank Pio2
1Dean of Faculty of Social Sciences and Psychology-University of Kisubi
2Head Department of Social Sciences –University of Kisubi
Abstract:-The study assessed the Trans-generational Family Counselling and Management of Home Financial Constraints guided by Exploratory and Case study design with a Study population of 450 (sample size 217) family members. Interviews, focus group discussions, structured questionnaires, observation as well as documentary analysis were used. Results showed in table.2 (17.79%) that Trans-generational Family interlocking concepts are used to manage home financial constraint. Table.3 (47%) revealed that the home financial abuses highly constrain home finances. Table.5 (51.6%) exposed that the Trans-generational Family therapy techniques are used to manage home financial constraints. The study concluded that the Trans-generational family therapy is effective in managing home financial constraints.
Key words: Trans-generational, family, counselling, Home, finances.
I. INTRODUCTION
Trans-generational Family counselling also known as intergenerational family therapy was developed by Murray Bowen who understood family as an emotional unit, a net work of interlocking relationships, best known when analyzed within a multigenerational historical framework (Goldenberg and Goldenberg, 1991). Kerr and Bowen (1988) argued that the eight interlocking concepts explain the emotional processes taking place in the nuclear and extended families over generation. These are also called forces of family functioning (Goldenberg et al., 2008). The trans-generational family counselling utilizes family finances.
This study contributes to the literature on family relationships to financial constraints. Financial constraints affect the different roles and tasks of the family members thus inhibiting their creative powers (Woodman and Schoenfeldt, 1989; 1990). The effect of financial constraints on family creativity of the outcome of functional relationships as exercised in the home environment (Burroughs and Mick, 2004). The presence of an interactionist lifestyle needs to put individual differences into consideration and this affects the available family resources with their creative performance (Gibbert et al., 2007). The family situation and birth order mould different characters and form personality in relation to financial management of different households.
