CFAM Flashcards
How do Wright and Bell define family?
As a group of individuals bound by:
- emotional ties
- sense of belonging
- passion for being involved in each other’s lives
What are the 5 attributes of the concept of family?
- Family is a system or unit
- may or may not be related
- May or may not include children
- Commitment to future obligations
- Protection, nourishment and socialization
What are the 3 categories of CFAM?
- Structural
- Developmental
- Functional
What are the structural components of CFAM?
Internal
External
Context
What are the internal structural components of CFAM?
Family composition
Gender
Sexual orientation
Rank order
Subsystems
Boundaries
What are the external structural components of CFAM?
Extended family
What are the contextual structural components of CFAM?
Ethnicity
Race
Social class
Religion
Spirituality
Environment
What are the developmental components of CFAM?
Stages
Tasks
Attachments
What are the functional components of CFAM?
Instrumental
Expressive
What are the instrumental functional components of CFAM?
ADLs
What are the expressive functional components of CFAM?
Communication
Problem solving
Roles
Power
Beliefs
What is rank order?
Position of child in family with respect to their age and gender
What are subsystems?
Relationships among individual members of a family
What are genograms?
- Diagram of family constellation
- at least 3 generations
- children = vertical lines
- children are rank ordered L to R starting with oldest child
What is an ecomap?
- shows family members relationship with larger systems
- schools, communities, health care
What are the 6 types of family life cycles?
- Middle class NA
- Divorce and post-divorce
- Remarried
- Professional and low-income
- Adoptive
- Lesbian/gay/transgender
