Exam 2 Flashcards
Family definition
2 or more individuals who are joined by marriage, birth or adoption and live together.
What does dynamic mean
Changing system can by influenced from outside or within
What are the roles of a family
- Caring, nurturing, educating children
- Maintaining the continuity of society by transmitting the family’s customs and values to children
- Receiving and giving love
- Preparing children to become productive members of society
- Meeting the needs of its members
- Serving as a buffer between its members and environmental/societal demands while advocating the interests and need of the individual family members
Family centered care
Philosophy in which a mutually beneficial partnership develops between families and the nurse or other health care providers
Promoting family centered care
- Family at the center
- Family professional collaboration and communication
- Cultural diversity of families
4: coping differences and support - Family centered peer support
- Specialized service and support systems
- Holistic perspective of family centered care
Nuclear family
Mom dad kids
Blended family
“Brady bunch” style
Extended family
Aunt, uncle, grandparents in house
Single-parent family
Just one parent present
Binuclear family
Mom and dad are split, kids rotate between both sets of parents, 4 parents total
Heterosexual cohabiting family
Not married
LGBT family
Same sex couple etc.
Parenting is what?
Leadership role
Includes parental warmth and parental control
Authoritarian parent
High control
Low warmth
Authoritative parenting
Moderately high control
High warmth
Permissive parenting
Low control
High warmth
Indifferent parenting
Low control
Low warmth
Family theories are good for what?
- Understanding family functioning
- Environment-family interchange
- Family changes over time
- Family response to health and illness
Family development theory stages
Stage 1: beginning family, newly married couples
Stage 2:childbearing family
Stage3: families with preschool children
Stage 4: families with school aged children
Stage 5: families with teenagers
Stage 6: families launching young adults
Stage 7: middle-aged parents
Stage 8: family in retirement and old age
Family systems theory?
Interaction between components of the system and between the system and the environment
Any change or stressor by one member of the family can cause the entire family disruption.
Family stress theory
Focuses on the family response to unexpected or unplanned events.
Routine stressors
Non routine stressors - positive stressors or unexpected stressors.
Family assessment?
Identify strategies for coping
Strengths : Communication skills Shared family values and beliefs Intrafamily support Self-care abilities Problem-solving skills Community linages
Family support services
Head start and early head start Before and after school programs Play groups Peer support groups Social service programs Home visits Job skills training or adult education Crisis care and respite care.
Nursing interventions
- Identify primary decision maker
- Discuss the family’s goals for managing care in the home setting
- Consider how the family’s strengths and previous experiences can be integrated into the intervention
- Consider family’s ethnic and religious background
- Offer the family one or more potential interventions instead of trying to force one intervention
- Identify what type of support or assistance the family would like to have.
- Identify potential community resources
- Provide the family with a care coordinator