0 Change Intro

Question 1

Change Theory - the most profound and sustaining change will be that which occurs within?

Answer 1

the family’s belief system

Question 2

Change Theory - first-order change (2)

Answer 2

• The system itself remains unchanged, but its elements or parts undergo some type of change.
• Change in quantity, not quality

Question 3

Change Theory - first-order change and problem solving in a family (3)

Answer 3

• Same problem-solving strategies are used over and over.
• Each new problem approached mechanically.
• If solution is difficult to find, more old strategies are used and usually more vigorously applied.

Question 4

Change Theory - second-order change

Answer 4

a change that changes the system

Question 5

For second-order change to occur, what must happen?

Answer 5

Actual changes in the rules governing the system must occur and, therefore, the system is structuraly transformed.

Question 6

Change Theory - spontaneous change

Answer 6

Problem resolution occurs in daily living w/o input of professional or sophisticated theories.

Question 7

Major transformations of an entire family system can be precipitated by major life events or through?

Answer 7

interventions offered by nurses

Question 8

Change can occur within the cognitive, affective or behavioural domains, but change in any one domain…

Answer 8

impacts the other domains

Question 9

If nurses wish to effect change within family systems they need to be able to?

Answer 9

Maintain a metaposition in the family. Simultaneously conceptualize both the family system interactions and their own interactions in the family.

Question 10

Change occurs in humans from moment to moment. This change is either triggered by…
or
is a result of

Answer 10

triggered by interactions/perturbations from the environment in which the system exists
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is a result of the system’s own internal dynamics