Family Health Nursing Flashcards
Group of persons usually living together and composed of the head and other persons related to the head by blood, marriage or adoption (US Census Bureau, 2005)
Family
Consist of individual, each with socially recognized status and position who interact with one another on a regular, recurring basis (Henson,
Gedaly Duff and Kaakinen, 2005)
Family Structure or Family Composition
It refers to the interactions of family members, especially the quality of relationships and interactions (Bomar 2004)
Family Function
What are the purpose of family function?
- To meet the need of the society
- To meet the need of the individual
- To provide sustenance and support in the 5 areas of wholeness: physical, emotional, intellectual, social, spiritual
What are the purpose of the family?
- To ensure survival of the unit and its individual members
- To continue the society and it’s knowledge, customs, values and beliefs
- It establishes a primary connection with a group responsible for a person until that person becomes independent
What are the 8 tasks identified by Duvall and Miller (1990) that is essential for a family to perform to survive as a healthy unit?
- Physical Sustenance
- Allocation of Resources
- Emotional Support
- Intellectual Stimulation
- Socialization
- Spirituality
- Status Placement
- Maintenance of Order
- Division of Labor
The family is responsible for meeting each member’s needs for food, clothing , shelter and protection from harm including illness.
“the wage earner”
Physical Sustenance
The family determines which needs have priority and what resources will be used to meet those needs.
“the financial manager”
Allocation of Resources
Parent child relationships to emotional adjustments later in life
Good behaviors rewarded and bad punished
Welfare and protection
“the nurturer”
Emotional Support
Parents read to the unborn children and play music to provide early stimulation
The need for intellectual development continues throughout life
Intellectual Stimulation
This task includes being certain that children feel part of the family and learning appropriate ways to interact with people outside the family such as teachers, neighbors, or police. It means the family has an open communication system among family members and outward to the community.
Socialization
The values and meaning in life; Religion. It involves the procreation and economic function.
Spirituality
Society is characterized by a hierarchy of its members into social classes
The family confers its societal rank on the children
“the gate keeper”
Status Placement
Opening effective means of communication among family members, establishing family values, enforcing common regulations for all family members
Maintenance of Order
Who fulfill certain roles in times of illness/ death roles may change
Reproduction , recruitment and release of family member
Division of Labor
What are the 2 basic family types can be described?
- Family of Orientation
- Family of Procreation
A basic family type where the family one is born into; or oneself, parents, and siblings, if any
Family of Orientation
A basic family type where a family one establishes; or oneself, spouse or
significant other, and children, if any
Family of Procreation
Consist of married couple and their biologic children. They live together including the siblings. No other persons are present.
(Family Structure)
Traditional Nuclear Family
Composed of two parents and their children (either biologic or adopted) who share a common household. Parents are not necessarily married. No other relatives or non relatives are present in the household.
(Family Structure)
Nuclear Family
Consisting only of husband and wife, such as newly married couples and “empty nesters”.
Two people living together
(Family Structure)
The Dyad Family
Also called reconstituted family. It includes at least one stepparent, stepsibling or half sibling.
(Family Structure)
Blended Family / Step Family
Consist of one or more nuclear families plus other relatives, often crossing generations to include grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins.
(Family Structure)
Extended Family
Children born out of wedlock, divorce, death, desertion or single parenthood.
(Family Structure)
Single Parent Family
Refers to parents continuing the parenting role while terminating the spousal unit.
(Family Structure)
Binuclear
Spouses in polygamous mating. Also called compound family
Polygyny (multiple wives)
Polyandry (multiple husbands)
(Family Structure)
Polygamous
People who share home making and child rearing functions and help overcome the problem of interpersonal isolation or loneliness. All children are responsibility of adult members.
(Family Structure)
Communal
Two people of the same sex live together, bound by formal or informal commitment with or without children. Children maybe result of heterosexual mating, product of foster child, artificial insemination, surrogacy.
(Family Structure)
Gay or Lesbian (LGBT)
Composed of couples, perhaps with children as a result of earlier union, who live together but remain unmarried. “live-in”, or “common-law”
(Family Structure)
Cohabition
Families of a great many types (nuclear, extended, cohabitation, blended, single parent, gay, and lesbian) adopt children today. No matter what the family structure is, adopting brings joy and fulfillment to a family.
(Family Structure)
Adoptive Family
Children whose parents can no longer care for them may be placed in a foster or substitute home by a child protection agency.
The Foster Family
It can be used to describe families and how family unit responds to events both within and outside the family.
Family Theories
Viewed as a system that continually interacts with its members and the environment. Change in one family member creates a change in other members which in turn results in a new a change in other member.
Family Systems Theory
It explains how families react to stressful events and suggests factors that promote adaption to stress. Families encounter stressors that affect change in the family (e.g. birth of a baby, death, unemployment, illness, marriage).
Family Stress theory
It is an outgrowth of several theories of development. Where it addresses family change over time.
Developmental Theory
It is developed by Urie Bron Fenbrenner (1997). This theory describes how environment and
systems outside the family influence the
development of a child over time. It is very useful to help identify stresses and potential resources that can affect family
adaptation.
Bio-Ecological System Theory
