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Family dynamic Flashcards

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an interactional unit in which all members influence each other
-Unit is comprised of people who are joined together by a common history and future, either united by bonds of blood, marriage, mutual consent, or adoption
-Helps achieve basic needs, maintain order and control, provide love
-Govern themselves by roles and rules

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Family

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Family role of one that is seen to set the example for others
-the straight As student
-Eldest son

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Hero

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Family role who is the problem child, trouble maker, defiant, or a misfit

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Scapegoat

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Family role who is the quiet kid, dreamer, has their head in the clouds, or is distant

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Lost child

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Family role who breaks the tension, is a joker, adds humor, or is disruptive

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Mascot

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Family rules that are not spoken or stated, but hidden
-“it is what it is”

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Implicit rules

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Family rules that are spoken or known

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Explicit rules

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Family rules that serves a person well, can be changed or adapted. Rules specifically for the family’s needs

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Functional rules

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Family rules with harmful effects, these rules limit personal growth

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Dysfunctional rules

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Family structure of dad, mom, and their children

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Nuclear family

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Family structure of parent 1 and their kids, parent 2 and their kids

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Blended, “step”, remarried

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Family structure where two people are in a long term relationship. They may or may not have kids

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Unmarried partners

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Another generation of family that lives with a nuclear family

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Extended family

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One parent and child

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Single parent

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2 nuclear families under one roof

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Joint family

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  1. Centered around the patriarch
  2. Centered around the matriarch
  3. Both parents make decisions. sharing
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  1. Patriarchy (nuclear family)
  2. Matriarchy
  3. Egalitarian
17
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How families interact:
Democratic family approach
-Changes, adapts, respects rights and viewpoints
-Tolerant of one another’s grief reactions during loss
-Easiest families to work with

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Open system

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How families interact:
Rigid, demanding unyielding in different opinions
-“We’ve always done it this way
-Tradition, doesn’t like change
-Shut down, put deceased on a pedestal

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Closed system

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How families interact:
Fragmented. “you do you”
-Very few or no rules
-Could avoid contact, some don’t come to service

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Random system

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What are the common characteristics of a healthy family?

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-Open communication (system)
-Faith or belief system
-Rituals and traditions

21
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The representation to show how a family relates, what is used to make a family tree; visual/ graphic representation

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Genogram

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What are the areas to consider with families in grief?

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  1. What role did the deceased play in the family unit?
  2. Emotional integration
  3. How the family facilitates or hingers self-expression
    -If considering counseling, it is the most effective for a family when the individuals are treated separately and then as a unit
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Occurs through roles, norms, and values in the family.
-Grief disrupts the balance
-In healthy family units, make adjustments so balance returns but in unhealthy units, balance does not return due to their rigidness
-Complicated grief may actually affect multiple generations (can be passed on)

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Homeostasis balance

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What are some ways to handle famililies and their grief?

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  1. Must treat individual and the unit
  2. Address the family myths (Loki, Thor, and Hela)
  3. With the loss, the primary task in counseling is establishing a new functional unit
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How do children learn about death?

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-Religion
-Family
-Television/ media
-Peers
-Experience
the funeral home needs to help foster a meaningful and comfortable experience for children

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What are the needs of a bereaved child? And what is the advice for partents?

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Needs of children
-To be able to cry/ express emotions
-Honesty/ age appropriate answers about death
-Ways to remember the deceased
-Involvement in events surrounding death
Advice for parents:
-Discuss the importance of a funeral
-Allow them to participate if asked
-By age 7, children should be encouraged to participate

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Worked with orphaned children in Hungary post WWII (1948). Came up with age of a child’s death understanding

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Maria Nagy

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Age of child’s death understanding:
Little to no understanding
-Non verbal skills (can sense emotional shifts in caregivers)
-Mimic caregivers

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Birth to 3 years

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Age of child’s death understanding:
Start to learn word death, but seems not permanent
-Death is “less alive” and can be reversed
-Magical thinking: ___

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3-5 years
-Magical thinking: kids believe thoughts cause actions

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Age of child’s death understanding:
Death happens to old people, not me or my family
-Get inquisitive about death
-Anthropomorphizing:___

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5-9 years
-Anthropomorphizing: making something not human a human

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Age of child’s death understanding:
Death is final and irreversible; mature view
-Biological understanding

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9 years and older

32
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Age of child’s death understanding: Not a part of Nagy’s writing
-teenage years get more abstract on views
-Existentialism, reflection

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Adolescense

33
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What are the warning signs of a grieving kid?

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-Changes to their school work or activities
-Docile to hyperactivities
-Play habits are different
-Normal to regress (be vigilenton intensity/duration)
-Eating and cleeping patterns
-If grief is unchecked, can lead to phobias
-Grief can be re-experienced

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What are some things to say and not say to children about death?

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To say:
-Share religious conviction if you believe them
-Speak in concrete terms rather than philosophical ones
-Grant permission to cry/ express feelings
-Acknowledge when you do not know the answer
Don’t say:
-Make believe stories or fairytales
-Somethings you don’t believe yourself
-What they will have to unlearn later

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