ch 14 family

Question 1

family

Answer 1

Two or more people related by birth, marriage, or adoption residing in the same household

Two or more individuals who provide physical, emotional, economic, or spiritual support while maintaining involvement in each other’s lives-holistic

May or may not be blood relatives

Concept of nontraditional families

families come in many forms, living arrangements, and emotional connections.

Question 2

Traditional nuclear families

Answer 2

married couples with at least one child, a husband in the labor force, and a wife not employed outside the home

Question 3

Grandparent families

Answer 3

When parents are unable or unwilling to assume the parenting role, grandparents will raise their grandchildren to prevent them from going to foster care or an alternate placement.

Question 4

Dual-earner families

Answer 4

both parents are in the workforce.

Question 5

Single-parent families

Answer 5

result from divorce or from the death of a partner, or result when partners choose not to marry or live together

Question 6

Blended and stepfamilies

Answer 6

established when single parents marry and either or both have children from a previous relationship. The nonbiological partner becomes the stepparent and a stepfamily is created.

Question 7

Extended families

Answer 7

grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins can be considered immediate family and live within a single dwelling or in proximity.

Close friends may also be considered immediate family.

Question 8

Sandwich families

Answer 8

middle-aged adults who still have children at home must care for and share their household with aging parents.

Although competent in the caregiver role, they feel personally overwhelmed and emotionally conflicted, but overall reported being as happy as the nonsandwiched families.

Question 9

family nursing

Answer 9

nursing care that is holistically directed toward the whole family and to individual members

Knowing the family unit is affected by acute or chronic illness, hospitalization, or healthcare interventions, the nurse best cares for the family by involving them in client care decisions.

Question 10

perspectives for family nursing

Answer 10

family as a context for care
family as a unit of care
family as a system

Question 11

family as a context for care

Answer 11

Your focus in this approach is on the ill individual.

From this perspective, you view the family as either a resource or a stressor to your client.

Question 12

family as a unit of care

Answer 12

Family health is viewed as the sum of all individual members

however, you might direct interventions to individual family members rather than the family as a whole

Question 13

family as a system

Answer 13

you focus on the family as a whole and as an interactional system

you direct your assessment and intervention to communications and interactions between family members.

Question 14

General Systems Theory

Answer 14

focuses on interactions between systems and the changes that result from these interactions.

Question 15

open system

Answer 15

(general systems theory)

family members function as individuals, are interdependent, and operate as a family unit

Question 16

balance

Answer 16

(general systems theory)

Healthy families strive to maintain a balance between external stress and internal relationships.

Question 17

interaction

Answer 17

(general systems theory)
Changes in the behaviors or attitudes of an individual member affect the family unit, and changes in family structure and functioning affect individual members.

Question 18

Surprasystems

Answer 18

(general systems theory)

Broader systems that surround the family unit (e.g., the community, the city, the state, the healthcare system)

Question 19

subsystems

Answer 19

(general systems theory)
Smaller components that fit within the family system (e.g., the mother, the marital couple), each has a particular function

Question 20

Structural-functional theories

Answer 20

include the concepts of family roles and interactions

Freud, Erikson, Havighurst

Family is a social system with functional requirements.
Family is a small group possessing features of a group.
Family accomplishes functions that serve both the individual and society
Individuals act with in norms through socialization.

Although they view the family as a social system structural-functional theories unlike systems theory, focus on outcome rather than process

Question 21

Family interactional theory

Answer 21

Views family as a unit of interacting personalities.

Question 22

Developmental theories

Answer 22

Focus on the stage of family development
- beginning family
- childbearing family
- family with preschool children
- family with school-age children
- family with teenagers and young adults
- family launching young adults
- Post-parental family
- aging family
Each stage is associated with developmental tasks the family needs to achieve.
Focus on stage of family development