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- Title
FAMILY RANCHING AND FARMING.
- Authors
Zimmerman, Toni Schindler; Fetsch, Robert J.
- Abstract
The article presents a study offering a Consensus Management model to assist ranch families with internal and external threats. This article brings together therapy and education and creates a rural family Consensus Management Model that increases positive family functioning and capitalizes on ranch families' natural inclination toward self-sufficiency. It also enables them to create a structure and a process for successful and amiable labor, management, and land transfer across the generations. One ranch family found the model practical, effective, and empowering to face whatever changes lay ahead, to increase their positive family functioning, and to decrease their work stress. It helped them create a process and a structure to deal directly with external and internal threats and to take the transfer process to another level that is more appropriate to their stage of the life span. The model provides an opportunity for Extension Specialists and clinicians to incorporate a strategic planning process into their practice and to expand into rural areas.
- Subjects
RANCHERS; RANCH life; CONSENSUS (Social sciences); FARMS; AUTARCHY; FAMILIES; QUALITY of life
- Publication
Family Relations, 1994, Vol 43, Issue 2, p125
- ISSN
0197-6664
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/585313