family structure and function tools in family assessment Flashcards

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A systematic way of understanding the family and to aid them in evaluating the impact of illness on a person and on his/her role in the family.

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Family assessment tools

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Family map is developed by __________, a psychiatrist - family therapist.

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Salvador Minuchin

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Facilitates the communication of information’s about a family system to colleagues so that they can be understood

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Family map

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4
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Reflect family relationships and interaction patterns

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Family map

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5
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Tool for obtaining a therapeutic ally for the delivery of care in the family

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Family map

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6
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Provides schematic description on whom to ask for assistance in making decisions for the patient

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Family map

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7
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Possible source of somatic complaint may also be identified

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Family map

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8
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Author of Family APGAR

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Gabriel Smilkstein

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9
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The purpose is to assess general family function

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Family APGAR

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The capability of the family to UTILIZE and SHARE inherent resources

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Adaptation

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Measures the satisfaction attained in solving problems by communication

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Partnership

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12
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Refers to the freedom of change both physical and emotional growth

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Growth

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13
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It is the intimacy and emotional interaction in the family

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Affection

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14
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The member’s satisfaction with the commitment made by other members of the family

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Resolve

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15
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APGAR scoring: 2

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Almost always

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16
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APGAR scoring: 1

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Some of the time

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17
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APGAR scoring: 0

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Hardly ever

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18
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APGAR scoring: Highly functional

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8-10

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19
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APGAR scoring: Moderately dysfunctional

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4-7

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20
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APGAR scoring: Severely dysfunctional

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0-3

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21
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What is SCREEM?

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Social Cultural Religious Economic Educational Medical

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22
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Very important in the assessment of the family as to its capacity to participate in the provision of health care or to cope with crisis

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SCREEM

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23
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Commonly used when the need for care is long or lasts a lifetime

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SCREEM

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24
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Assess the resource of difficult and non-compliant patients

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SCREEM

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25
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SCREEM family resources survey is developed by ____________.

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M. Medina, Jr.

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26
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The goal is to develop a valid and reliable Filipino measure of family resources.

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SCREEM family resource survey

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Assesses the family’s capacity to participate in the provision of health care or to cope with crisis.

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SCREEM family resource survey

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28
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SCREEM RES: 0-6

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Severely inadequately family resources

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29
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SCREEM RES: 7-12

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Moderately inadequate family resources

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30
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SCREEM RES: 13-18

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Adequate family resources

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31
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Provides a predictable and chronological sequence of events in the family’s life, which can be related to clinical events and to the health maintenance of family members

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Family life cycle

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32
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Description of the family dynamics through clearly defined stages of development.

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Family life cycle

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32
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One has to explore whether family members seldom act INDEPENDENTLY or get OVERINVOLVED with each other.

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Enmeshment

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33
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This is symbolized by three parallel lines.

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Enmeshment

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34
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One has to explore whether family members are isolated from each other or have little emotional response from each other.

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Disengagement

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35
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This is symbolized by dotted lines.

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Disengagement

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36
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One has to explore whether the family members talk directly to each other about personal matters.

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Triangulation

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37
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This is symbolized by an open-ended arrow with its open end embracing two individuals and the pointed end pointing to a third person.

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Triangulation

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38
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One has to explore whether one member of the family is siding with one member.

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Coalition

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39
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This is symbolized by a bracket.

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Coalition

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40
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The behavioral skeleton around which family life is built.

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Family structure

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41
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A family who is not open to negotiation in spite of the fact that circumstances render the old boundaries no longer appropriate is considered _______.

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Rigid

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42
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It exist if couple spend little time together, have separate bedrooms or completely separate lives.

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Rigid boundaries

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43
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Create dysfunctional families when members fail to adjust during phase transitions.

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Rigid boundaries

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44
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Rigid boundaries may lead to ____________.

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Disengagement

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45
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46
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Establishing personal independence

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Unattached adult (Leaving home)

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47
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Establishing an intimate relationship with spouse

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Newly married couple

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48
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Dividing the various marital roles in an equitable way

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Learning to live together

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49
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Opening the family to include a new member

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Family with young children

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50
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Increasing the flexibility of the family boundaries to allow the adolescent to move in and out of the family system.

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Family with adolescent

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51
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Accepting the multitude of exits from and entries into the family system

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Launching Family

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52
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Adjusting to the ending of the wage-earning rates.

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Retirement

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53
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Dealing with lessening abilities and greater dependence on others

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Old age

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54
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Beginning emotional separation from parents

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Leaving home

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55
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Developing further the EMOTIONAL SEPARATION from parents

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Newly married couple

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56
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Establishing a new, more independent relationship with family

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Learning to live together

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57
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Dividing the PARENTING ROLES

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Family with young children

58
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Adjusting to the ending of parenting roles

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Launching family

59
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Minimal emphasis on the family in the delivery of health care.

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Level I

60
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Ongoing medical information and advice. WORKS COLLABORATIVELY with patientd and families, and understands the triangular nature of the patient-doctor-family relationship.

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Level II

61
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Feelings and support. The physician understands normal family development and how families react to stress.

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Level III

62
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Assessment of family dysfunction and provision of intervention. It is the most common involvement among patients who are alcohol or drug abusers.

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Level IV

63
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Family therapy

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Level V

64
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The traditional type of family.

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Nuclear family

65
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Was long considered by most societies as being the ideal way of raising children

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Nuclear family

66
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Children find stability and strength and usually have a lot more opportunities because of the financial ease of both parents

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Nuclear family

67
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Couples who either choose not or cannot conceive children

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Childless family

68
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Often considered as the “forgotten family” as it doesn’t really meet the traditional rules set by most societies

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Childless family

69
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Includes a wife, a husband working and living together

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Childless family

70
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Most of these families choose to own a pet or keep contact with their nephews or nieces as a substitute

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Childless family

71
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Represents the biggest change in a society if we are to speak about family structures

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Single-parent family

72
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Usually close and are always looking for ways of solving their issues together, like dividing up the chores around the house.

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Single-parent family

73
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Just as about as frequent as nuclear family, although they have a tendency of having more issues, like discipline problems or adjustments periods

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Step-family

74
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Includes 2 or more adults who have some sort of relation, either by marriage or blood.

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Extended family

75
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Grouping of individuals which are formed for specific ideological or societal purposes

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Communal family

76
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Considered as an alternative lifestyle for people who feel alienated from the predominantly economically oriented society

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Communal family

77
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Classification based on descent:

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Patrilineal, Matrilineal

78
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Classification based on residence

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Neolocal, matrilocal, patrilocal

79
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Classification based on authority

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Equalitiarian, matriarchal, patriarchal

80
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Classification based on naming

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Patronymic, matronymic

81
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Classification according to relationship

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Conjugal, unmarried

82
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Classification according to set-up

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Democratic, authoritarian

83
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Classification according to social class

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Lower, middle or upper class

84
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Member gives some priority to the needs of the group over his own needs.

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Functional Family Relationship

85
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Recurrent patterns of behavior by which individuals fulfill family functions and needs

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Family roles

86
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Concerned with the provision of physical resources (food, shelter and clothing), decision making and family management

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Instrumental role

87
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To provide emotional support and encouragement to family members

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Affective role

88
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Assignment of responsibilities within a family that enables the family to function properly

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Role Allocation

89
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Make decisions on who will be responsible for completing a certain task for fulfilling a particularly responsibility

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Role Allocation

90
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Refer to a family members sense of responsibility for completing the tasks of an assigned role

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Family accountability

91
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Parents in healthy families understand that they are responsible for disciplining their children.

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Family accountability

92
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5 Essential Roles For Effective Family Functioning:

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  1. Provision of resoures
  2. Nurturance and support
  3. Life skills development
  4. Maintenance and Management of the Family system
  5. Sexual Gratification of Marital Partners
93
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Created for the purpose of defending against others

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Permanent alliance

94
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Seriously disrupt a family’s functional adaptive capacity

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Permanent Alliance

95
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Disruptive and distorts the normal balance of family relationship

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Permanent Alliance

96
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Has distorted thinking and believes that they are basically responsible for the other person’s dysfunction

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The Enabler

97
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Tends to blame others, makes strong peer alliances, and is often disciplined by teachers or other adults for breaking rules.

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The Scapegoat

98
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Always, volunteering, very responsible and manifests a drive, almost a compulsion, to be on top.

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The Hero

99
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Often gets lost in the shuffle

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The Lost Child

100
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Tends to be funny or distracting and gets attention frequently. This student likes to hide, make faces, pull the chair from someone else, otherwise act out.

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The mascot

101
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Assigning of blame to a person or things for fault of others

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Scapegoating

102
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Object is to draw off tension that cannot be resolved in the usual manner and assign it to another

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Scapegoating

103
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Frequently occurs in a strict authoritarian family

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Scapegoating

104
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One in which the wife is dependent and infantile and in which the husband’s self esteem and fragile maturity depend on keeping her that way

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Doll’s house family

105
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The husband’s ego strength and borderline maturity rely upon the continuation of this relationship

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Doll’s house family

106
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The spouses are not merely unhappy but ar openly hostile to one another, often competing for loyalty of the children

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Shizophrenic family

107
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Children lack a warm, affectionate relationship between parents and children

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Delinquency

108
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Common among boys who have lost their father or passed through an important formative years (ages 4 to 8) without a father figure present or with one present who serves inadequately in the paternal role

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Delinquency

109
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Deprived of a supportive environment and raised where care is impersonal and inadequate often shows developmental difficulty and high susceptibility to diseases and can also affect the child’s IQ.

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Emotional deprivation

110
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A relationship has been shown between incontinence in children and the strength of maternal relationship during the early formative years.

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Enuresis

111
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Bedwetting is greatest if total disruption of the family occurs through either divorce or abandonment.

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Enuresis

112
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Major cause of death in children over 1 year old in developed countries

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Accidental injuries

113
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5 Major Forms of Family Disorders:

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  1. Uncompleted family unit
  2. Willed family dissolution
  3. Empty shell family
  4. Externally caused crisis
  5. Internal catastrophe
114
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Any event, past or present that changes the lifestyle or presents a significant strain upon family organization.

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Crisis

115
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A crisis identified with short and long term addition of one or more to the family structure.

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Addition (Hill’s Taxonomy of Crisis)

Examples: Adoption, birth, marriage, unplanned pregnancy

116
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Associated with the threat of loss or actual departure of a family member

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Abandonment

Examples: Planned departure, separation, death, stow away

117
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A crisis that occurs when a family member initiated a change in a previously ordained family moral code

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Demoralization

Examples: School suspension, alcoholism, drug abuse, delinquency, infidelity

118
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Crisis involving gain or loss of wealth, power or position in the family or extra familial society

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Status change

Examples: Loss of income, sudden fame, expulsion, loss of freedom

119
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State of impaired functioning that occurs when an individuals resources are inadequate or unavailable to meet an intense stressor or an accumulation of stressor

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Disequilibirium

120
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Assets that serve to nurture an individual and those that supply the means for solving stressor-induced problems

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Resources

121
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Refers to adjustment by the family to stressors within and outside the family

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Coping

122
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State of family disequilibrium that results from the failure of an individual to identify or use resources to resolve a stressor induced problem

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Crisis

123
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The use of pathologic defense mechanisms to escape from an unresolved crisis, resulting in a state of impaired emotional and social functioning.

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Maladaptation

124
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State of impaired interaction or nurturing within the family that follows the use of abnormal defense mechanisms to escape from anxiety of unresolved family crisis.

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Pathologic disequilibrium

125
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Family function is continuously deteriorating because of failure to resolve a crisis, may eventually lead to family dissolution.

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Terminal Disequilibrium

126
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Seeing but refusing to acknowledge what one sees and hearing but negating what is actually heard

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Denial

127
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Involves purposeful, UNCONSCIOUS SHIFTING from one object to another the interest of solving a conflict.

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Displacement

128
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Actually plays a crucial role in ego development but can be used a defense mechanism when a person unconsciously incorporates the characteristics and qualities of another person or object into his ego system.

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Identification

129
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Differs from identification in the fact that this involves internalization of the characteristics of another person or object, creating a radical shift or alteration in the person.

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Introjection

130
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Individual provides a plausible but inaccurate justification for his or her failures

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Rationalization

131
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Consist of expelling and withholding from conscious awareness of an idea or feeling

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Repression

132
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The redirection of feeling and desires and especially of those unconsciously retained from childhood toward a new object.

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Transference

133
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Individual retreats to an earlier developmental stage that was more secure and pleasant and/or the use of less mature response in attempting to cope with stress.

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Regression

134
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Performing an extreme behavior in order to express thoughts or feelings the person feels incapable of otherwise expressing.

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Acting out

135
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Reduces anxiety by converting dangerous thoughts, feelings, behavior or impulses into their opposite feelings, impulses or behavior.

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Reaction formation

136
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Reduces anxiety by thinking about events in a cold clinical way

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Intellectualization

137
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The defensive conversion of psychic derivative of bodily symptoms tendency to react with somatic rather than psychic manifestations.

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Somatization

138
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Perceiving and reacting to an UNACCEPTABLE INNER IMPULSE and their derivatives as though they were outside the shelf.

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Projection

139
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Redirecting or acting put unacceptable impulses or wrong urges into SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE IMPULSE

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Sublimation

140
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Consciously forcing the unwanted information out of conscious awareness.

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Supression

141
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Process of counterbalancing perceived weakness by emphasizing strength IN OTHER AREAS

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Compensation

142
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Satisfying internal needs THROUGH HELPING OTHERS

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Altruism

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