Family and Community Medicine Flashcards
Represents a composite of the individual developmental changes of family members
Family life cycle
Presents a cyclic development of the evolving family unit
Family life cycle
Shows the evolution of the marital relationship
Family life cycle
Family Life Cycle Stages: IDENTIFY
Increasing flexibilities to include children’s independence and grandparents’ frailties
Refocus on midlife marital and career issues — midlife crisis
Families with Adolescents
Family Life Cycle Stages: IDENTIFY
Leaving home
Accepting emotional and financial responsibility for self
Differentiation of self in relation to family of origin
Unattached Young Adult
Family Life Cycle Stages: IDENTIFY
Joining the families through marriage
Commitment to new system
Realignment of relationships with extended families and friends to include spous
Newly Married Couple
Family Life Cycle Stages: IDENTIFY
Accepting the shifting of generational roles
Maintaining own function in face of physiologic decline
Support for a more central role of the middle generation
Dealing with loss of spouse, siblings, peers, and preparation for own death
Life review and integration
Families in Later Life
Family Life Cycle Stages: IDENTIFY
Accepting new members into the marriage and extended family
Joining in child rearing, financial and household task
Family with Young Children
Family Life Cycle Stages: IDENTIFY
Launching children and moving on
Accepting exits from and entries into the family system
Development of adult to adult relationships between grown children and their parents
Launching Family
A group of people who are related to each other either biologically, emotionally, or legally
Family (general)
A group of people related by blood, marriage, or adoption who live together in one household
Family (by affinity)
A small social system made up of individuals related to each other by reason of strong reciprocal affection and loyalties and comprising a permanent household (or cluster of household) that persists over years and decades — common ideology
Family (by structure, function, composition, and affection)
Classification of Families according to Structure:
Parents and dependent children
Separate dwelling
Economically independent
Nuclear Family
Classification of Families according to Structure:
Includes step parents and step children
Due to divorce or annulment with remarriage
Blended Family
Classification of Families according to Structure:
Parents, children, and relatives
Aggregate of families or part of families from two ro more generatios occupying a single or adjacent dwellings
Extended Family