L08-Lifespan changes and families Flashcards
What is a family?
A family is a group of individuals related to each other by blood ties, marriage or adoption who form an economic unit with the adult members responsible for bringing up the children.
What is the function of a family (parson and bales)
Socialisation of children
Procreation
Social placement of children and adults
Looks after members
What are the 7 types of families?
Lone parent- single parent and child
Nuclear traditional - mother, father and children
Nuclear adopted - mother, father and adopted children
Same sex nuclear - Father, father and children
Extended - mother, father, grandparents, cousins
Reconstituted/ blended - 1 or more adults from a previous relationship
Postmodern - inorperates all of these
What is a household?
A group of people that share living arrangements together. eg. chores and cooking
What is the difference between a family and a household?
A family share biological and emotional connections
A household share temporal and spacial relations
What are some of the disadvantages of changing family structures?
People are living student lives longer (more sexual, drugs and mental health problems)
People having kids later leading to fertility problems
Lone parent families reduce time to go to the doctors and reduce health seeking behaviour.
What are the typical mother and father roles within a family?
Mother: Nurterer and carer Female role model Assess healthcare needs Look after children
Father: Breadwinner Disaplinarian Play mate Male role model
What are the 8 roles of the family in health?
Transmission of heritable diseases
Health or unhealthy behaviours e.g. smoking
Attitudes towards healthcare professionals
Body image (especially girls)
Diagnosis of symptoms
Management of symptoms (encouraging to take medication)
Provision of healthcare (caring role)
Effect of illness on family
What are the three ways that a family can come to a doctors attention?
Family fails in patient care function
One of the family has a mental or physical breakdown that may affect family
Non-compliance and friction between patient and family.
What are the mcgoldrick and carter stages of family cycles?
Unattached adult - parent/offspring seperation (18)
New married couple - Commitant to new family system
Family with young children - accepting new generation
Family with teenagers - increased flexibilty
Launching children - children leave and cycle starts again.
Family in later life - accept older generational role
What are the two routes that a family reaction to illness can take?
There is an illness that disturbs the daily pattern of life in the family. The family pulls together and the person recovers. Or the illness becomes chronic.
What are the two route a family can take when an illness becomes chronic?
Can become a coping or a non-coping family.
What are the characteristics of a family coping with chronic illness?
Family pulls together to cope with illness
Illness ignored as much as possible
Can lead to reduced involvement from community as family dont mention it.
What are the characteristics of a family not coping with chronic illness?
Family pulls apart
Leads to disruptions in family relationships
Ill person given overattention so other members neglected
Ill person can be excluded from family e.g. institutionalised
What are the characteristics of a family coping with chronic illness?
Family pulls together to cope with illness
Illness ignored as much as possible
Can lead to reduced involvement from community as family dont mention it.
