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It is very important for each participant to identify and define his or her funda-
mental problems, which may show us unconscious and compulsive intergener-
ational transmission or intergenerational transmission of behaviour patterns,
feelings and beliefs. Intergenerational transmission might thus be defined as
instances of social transmission between members of different generations.
Martin-Matthews and Kobayashi (2009) state that we can also describe inter-
generational transmission as behaviour or tendencies of one generation pass-
ing onto the next generation. Intergenerational transmission is one dimension
of the larger concept of intergenerational relations. The term intergenerational
relation describes a wide range of patterns of interaction among individuals of
different generations of the family: for example, among those in older genera-
tions, such as parents and grandparents and those in younger generations, such
as children and grandchildren. What is transmitted may be intangible and may
include beliefs, norms, values, attitudes, and behaviours specific to that fam-
ily, or may reflect socio-cultural, religious, and ethnically relevant practices
and beliefs (Chen and Kaplan, 2001; Capaldi, Pears, Patterson and Owen, 2003;
Martin-Matthews and Kobayashi, 2009).
The theory states that parents of one generation have a tendency to repeat
the parenting model which their parents applied on them (Serbin and Karp,
2003). Family researchers have also studied the intergenerational transmis-
sion of difficult life course transitions like marital dissolution or divorce. Some
members of program for example are also young parents and some of them are
already divorced. They have similar problems as their parents and grandpar-
ents. In particular, studies have found that parental divorce increases the like-
lihood that adult children will experience separation or divorce (Glenn and
Kramer 1987; Keith and Finlay 1988; Amato 1996; Demšar Pečak, 2014).
It is very important that interventions are held in collaboration with var-
ious institutions because in that way the assistance is more effective and espe-
cially prolonged. For the successful achievements of program mentors need the
support of various external institutions and individuals. It is very important
that they are all involved in the program as professional team: advisors at the
Employment Service, representatives of police, advisers for social work, coun-
sellors in schools and mentors in the workplace, doctors, therapists and oth-
ers who are closely linked to the individual participants. Thus, the entire team
helps participants to the achievement of a career plan. As already mentioned
cooperation of the relational therapist is also important for the quality achieve-
ment of the individual career goal. The majority of program participants have
symptomatic deep-rooted patterns of interpersonal interactions. Therapeutic
work with individuals may lead to the gradual change of inappropriate models
of interpersonal interactions and thereby the change of the individual’s men-
tal structure and regulation of psychobiological conditions (Demšar Pečak and
Ovsenik, 2014; Demšar Pečak 2017).
It is very important for each participant to identify and define his or her funda-
mental problems, which may show us unconscious and compulsive intergener-
ational transmission or intergenerational transmission of behaviour patterns,
feelings and beliefs. Intergenerational transmission might thus be defined as
instances of social transmission between members of different generations.
Martin-Matthews and Kobayashi (2009) state that we can also describe inter-
generational transmission as behaviour or tendencies of one generation pass-
ing onto the next generation. Intergenerational transmission is one dimension
of the larger concept of intergenerational relations. The term intergenerational
relation describes a wide range of patterns of interaction among individuals of
different generations of the family: for example, among those in older genera-
tions, such as parents and grandparents and those in younger generations, such
as children and grandchildren. What is transmitted may be intangible and may
include beliefs, norms, values, attitudes, and behaviours specific to that fam-
ily, or may reflect socio-cultural, religious, and ethnically relevant practices
and beliefs (Chen and Kaplan, 2001; Capaldi, Pears, Patterson and Owen, 2003;
Martin-Matthews and Kobayashi, 2009).
The theory states that parents of one generation have a tendency to repeat
the parenting model which their parents applied on them (Serbin and Karp,
2003). Family researchers have also studied the intergenerational transmis-
sion of difficult life course transitions like marital dissolution or divorce. Some
members of program for example are also young parents and some of them are
already divorced. They have similar problems as their parents and grandpar-
ents. In particular, studies have found that parental divorce increases the like-
lihood that adult children will experience separation or divorce (Glenn and
Kramer 1987; Keith and Finlay 1988; Amato 1996; Demšar Pečak, 2014).
It is very important that interventions are held in collaboration with var-
ious institutions because in that way the assistance is more effective and espe-
cially prolonged. For the successful achievements of program mentors need the
support of various external institutions and individuals. It is very important
that they are all involved in the program as professional team: advisors at the
Employment Service, representatives of police, advisers for social work, coun-
sellors in schools and mentors in the workplace, doctors, therapists and oth-
ers who are closely linked to the individual participants. Thus, the entire team
helps participants to the achievement of a career plan. As already mentioned
cooperation of the relational therapist is also important for the quality achieve-
ment of the individual career goal. The majority of program participants have
symptomatic deep-rooted patterns of interpersonal interactions. Therapeutic
work with individuals may lead to the gradual change of inappropriate models
of interpersonal interactions and thereby the change of the individual’s men-
tal structure and regulation of psychobiological conditions (Demšar Pečak and
Ovsenik, 2014; Demšar Pečak 2017).
