At some point prior to their children turning 18, roughly 70% of mothers will hold the position of breadwinner in their family. The increasing number of breadwinning mothers is reflective of the shifting roles of women in families. Although a family role shift is evident for mothers, the centrality of women in the development of families across the lifespan remains unchanged. The centrality of mothers to family development is obvious in the family life cycle. Embedded in the traditional family structure, the family life cycle is a commonly used assessment model for family lifespan development despite its incongruence with professional counseling ethics and curriculum standards. The incongruence highlights the need for a family development model appropriate for diverse family structures. Therefore, a pilot case study approach guided this study as an initial exploration into the family development of high achieving women. An in-depth semi-structured interview with a single participant was conducted and then analyzed using a phenomenological approach. Four themes emerged from the participant's experience: self-efficacy and hustle, supportive relationships, resources used, and barriers faced. The findings from this study demonstrated a clear need for additional research. Additionally, the researcher recommends that counselor educators and family counselors should be cautious in their utilization of existing family development assessment models with diverse families.

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高成就女性的决斗野心：家庭发展试点案例研究

在孩子年满 18 岁之前的某个时刻，大约 70% 的母亲将担任家庭经济支柱。养家糊口的母亲人数不断增加，反映出女性在家庭中角色的转变。尽管母亲的家庭角色转变是显而易见的，但女性在整个一生中家庭发展中的中心地位仍然没有改变。在家庭生命周期中，母亲对家庭发展的中心地位显而易见。家庭生命周期植根于传统家庭结构，是家庭生命周期发展常用的评估模式，尽管它与专业咨询伦理和课程标准不一致。这种不一致凸显了需要适合不同家庭结构的家庭发展模式。因此，试点案例研究方法指导了本研究，作为对高成就女性家庭发展的初步探索。对单个参与者进行了深入的半结构化访谈，然后使用现象学方法进行了分析。参与者的经历中出现了四个主题：自我效能和努力、支持性关系、使用的资源以及面临的障碍。这项研究的结果表明显然需要进行更多研究。此外，研究人员建议辅导员教育工作者和家庭辅导员在使用现有的多元化家庭家庭发展评估模型时应谨慎。