Chapter 2

Question 1

Family

Answer 1

individuals who are joined together by marriage, blood, adoption, or residence in the same household.

Question 2

Nuclear Family

Answer 2

consists of a husband-provider, a wife who stays home, and children. Was once the norm in the US, but is no longer the most common type.

Question 3

Dual-career/Dual-earner family

Answer 3

both parents work, either by choice or necessity. Two-thirds of all two-parent families are this type.

Question 4

What issues do Dual-career families have to address?

Answer 4

child care, household chores, and spending time together.

Question 5

Child-free family

Answer 5

a growing trend. In some cases by choice, and in others due to infertility.

Question 6

Extended family

Answer 6

a couple shares household and childrearing responsibilities with parents, siblings, or other relatives.

Question 7

Extended-kin network family

Answer 7

form of extended family in which two nuclear families of primary or unmarried kin live near each other. They share social support network, chores, goods, and services. Common in Latino community.

Question 8

Single-parent family

Answer 8

becoming increasingly common. Head of household is widowed, divorced, abandoned, or separated.

Question 9

Stepfamily

Answer 9

a biologic parent with children and a new spouse who may or may not have children. More common due to increasing rates of divorce and remarriage.

Question 10

What are the strengths of a stepfamily?

Answer 10

may have fewer financial issues, may offer a child a new support person and role model, and offers new opportunity for relationships for parents.

Question 11

What are the challenges of a stepfamily?

Answer 11

relationship between stepparent and children may be strained with issues such as discipline, adjustment problems, role ambiguity, strain with other biologic parent, and communication problems.

Question 12

binuclear family

Answer 12

post-divorce family in which the biologic children are members of two nuclear housholds. Children alternate between the home of the mother and home of the father.

Question 13

Nonmarital heterosexual cohabitating family

Answer 13

describes the heterosexual couple who may or may not have children and who live together outside of marriage.

Question 14

Gay and lesbian families

Answer 14

those in which two or more people who share a same-sex orientation live together( with or without children), and those in which a gay or lesbian single parent rears a child.

Question 15

Family development

Answer 15

the dynamics or changes that a family experiences over time, including changes in relationships, communication patterns, roles, and interactions.

Question 16

Culture

Answer 16

the beliefs, values, attitudes, and practices that are accepted by a population, a community, or and individual.

Question 17

Ethnicity

Answer 17

a social identity that is associated with shared behaviors and patterns. These include family structure, religious affiliation, language, dress, eating habits, and health behaviors.

Question 18

Acculturation

Answer 18

the process by which people adapt to a new cultural norm.

Question 19

Assimilation

Answer 19

when a group completely changes its cultural identity to become part of the majority culture.

Question 20

taboo

Answer 20

a behavior or thing that is to be avoided

Question 21

Ethnocentrism

Answer 21

the conviction that the values and beliefs of one’s own cultural group are the best or only acceptable ones.

Question 22

Complementary therapy

Answer 22

any procedure or product that is used as an adjunct to conventional medical treatment.

Question 23

Alternative therapy

Answer 23

substance or procedure that is used in place of conventional medicine. Not usually available in conventional clinics or hospitals, thus insurance doesn’t typically cover.

Question 24

Homeopathy

Answer 24

substance that can produce symptoms to a healthy person can be used to treat similar symptoms of an unhealthy person.

Question 25

Allopathic medicine

Answer 25

uses remedies the produce affects differing, or in opposition to- those of the disease being treated.

Question 26

Naturopathy or Natural Medicine

Answer 26

a healing system that combines safe and effective traditional means of preventing and treating disease with the most current advances in modern medicine.

Question 27

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)

Answer 27

seeks to ensure the balance of energy, which is called chi or qi.

Question 28

What therapeutic techniques are employed in TCM?

Answer 28

Acupuncture, Acupressure, Herbal therapy, Qigong, T’ai chi, Moxibustion

Question 29

Biofeedback

Answer 29

Method used to help individuals learn to control their physiologic responses based on the concept that the mind controls the body.

Question 30

Hypnosis

Answer 30

a state of great mental and physical relaxation during which a person is very open to suggestions.

Question 31

Guided imagery

Answer 31

a state of intense, focused concentration used to create compelling mental images.

Question 32

Chiropractic therapy

Answer 32

based on the concept of manipulation to address health problems that are thought to be the result of abnormal nerve transmissions (subluxation) caused by misalignment of the spine.

Question 33

Massage therapy

Answer 33

the manipulation of the soft tissues of the body to reduce stress and tension, increase circulation, diminish pain, and promote a sense of well-being.

Question 34

Therapeutic Touch

Answer 34

a complementary therapy meant to be used with conventional medical care and grounded in the belief that people are a system of energy with a self-healing potential.