Family Assessment Flashcards
Exam 3
FAMILY: What is it?
Two or more persons who share emotional closeness and identify themselves as members of a family (DeMarco & Healey-Walsh, 2020).
Promoting FAMILY HEALTH
Most theorists agree that a family consists of:
Two or more individuals who share a residence or live near one another
Possess some common emotional bond
Engage in interrelated social positions, roles, and tasks
Share a sense of affection and belonging
FAMILY Structures
What are different types?
Nuclear families
Single parent families
Cohabitating couples and families
Childless families
Blended families
LGBTQ families
Homeless families
Grandparent families
Contemporary Family issues
Changes in family life cycle
Changes in family structure
Contemporary Family issues
Changes in family structure: What does this mean?
Single-parent families
Blended families
Cohabitating couples and families
Theoretical Perspective of family
include:
Family systems theory
Family structural-functional theory
Family developmental theory
Theoretical Perspective of family
include: Family systems theory
Explains internal and external interactions within the family and with the community.
Theoretical Perspective of family
include: Family structural-functional theory
Family structural-functional theory – Family serves as basic unit of society, order/structure of relationships.
Theoretical Perspective of family
include: Family developmental theory
Family developmental theory – Families progress through typical stages - Life cycle
Promoting Family Health
Nursing care directed at improving the potential health of a family or any of its members consists of:
Promoting Family Health
Nursing care directed at improving the potential health of a family or any of its members consists of:
Assessing what?
Assessing individual and family health needs and strengths
Promoting Family Health
Nursing care directed at improving the potential health of a family or any of its members consists of:
Identifying what?
Identifying problems influencing the health care of the family as a whole and those influencing the individual members
Promoting Family Health
Nursing care directed at improving the potential health of a family or any of its members consists of:
Using what?
Using family resources through teaching and counseling
Promoting Family Health
Nursing care directed at improving the potential health of a family or any of its members consists of:
Evaluating what?
Evaluating progress toward stated goals
Family Characteristics
Vary by what?
Vary by organization, culture, and individual
Family Characteristics
How is every family?
Every family is a small social system.
Every family moves through stages in its life cycle
Every family has its own cultural values and rules
Every family has structure.
Every family has certain basic functions.
Family HISTORY includes what?
Sociodemographic details of the family
Type of the family
Family size
Consanguinity
Family Constellation
Who is included?
Father, Mother, Spouse, Children, Siblings
Family Constellation
What is included?
Age
Marital status
Educational status
Occupation
Income
Health status
Any other significant family history
Family Development Stage
aka?
The family life cycle (Duvall, 1977)
Family Development Stage
The stages are based on what? How many stafes are there?
The stages from their work are based on the traditional, nuclear, heterosexual middle-class family experience, which was the predominant and widely accepted family structure at the time.
The theorists identified eight stages within the family life cycle.
Family Development Stage: What are they?
Married couples without children.
Childbearing families – oldest child from birth to 30 months.
Families with pre school children – oldest child 21/2 to 6 years.
Families with school children – oldest child – 6 to 13 years.
Families with teenagers – oldest child 13 to 20 years.
Families launching young adults – from first child’s to last
child’s leaving house.
Middle aged parents – empty nest to retirement. 8. Aging family members – retirement to death of both spouses.
Family Life Cycle: /how many stages?
Two broad stages
Family Life Cycle:
Two broad stages
Expansion
Contraction
Family Life Cycle:
Two broad stages: Expansion
Adding of new members
Increase in relationships
Family Life Cycle:
Two broad stages: Contraction
Leaving of members
Starting own lives or dying
Family Life Cycle
Two broad stages: More specific phases within each stage
More specific phases within each stage, that is, launching of children, retirement of parents
Family Developmental Tasks
Life cycle progression dependent on what?
Life cycle progression dependent on developmental tasks; ongoing throughout life cycle
Family Developmental Tasks include:
Establishing a mutually satisfying relationship
Adjusting to pregnancy and parenthood
Fitting into kin network
Adapting to critical needs of children at all stages
Fitting into the community
Balancing freedom with responsibility
Releasing young adults into work
Adjusting to retirement
Husband and wife as marital partners
Father and mother as parents
Parent and children
Children as siblings
Significant others