LEC 3: Definitions Flashcards
Calgary Family Assessment Model (CFAM)
An integrated, multidimensional framework based on the foundations of systems, cybernetics, communication, and change theory and is influenced by postmodernism and biology of cognition.
Structural Assessment
When assessing a family, it is important to examine its structures- that is who is in the family, what is the connection among family members and those outside the family, and what is the family’s context.
Family Composition
A group of individuals who are bound together by strong emotional ties, a sense of belonging, and a passion for being involved in one another’s lives. Family is who they say they are.
Gender
A basic construct and fundamental organizing principle. It is a set of beliefs about or expectations of male and female behaviours and experiences.
Sexual Orientation
Includes sexual majority and sexual minority populations.
Heterosexism
The preference of heterosexual orientation over other sexual orientations, is a form of multicultural bias that has the potential to harm both families and health-care providers.
Queer
Refers to individuals whose gender identify dies bit strictly conform with societal norms traditionally ascribed to either male or female and who define themselves outside of these definitions. The premise is that sexual identity is socially constructed.
Intersexed
Describes someone with ambiguous genitalia or chromosomal abnormalities.
Two-Spirited
Denotes an individual in the Aboriginal culture with close ties to the spirit world and who may or may not identify as being lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender.
Rank Order
Refers to the position of the children in the family with respect to age and gender.
Subsystems
A term used to discuss or mark the family system’s level of differentiation; a family carries out its functions through its subsystems.
Spirituality
Defined as whatever or whoever gives ultimate meaning and purpose in one’s life and invites particular ways of being in the world toward others, oneself, and the universe.
Religion
Defined as an affiliation or a membership in a particular faith community that shares a set of beliefs, rituals, morals, and sometimes a health code centered on a defined higher or transcendent power most frequently referred to as God.
Envrionment
Encompasses aspects of the larger community, the neighborhood, and the home.
Family Development
The unique path constructed by a family. The interaction between the development of the individual and the phase of the family developmental life cycle.
Developmental Assessment
This aspect of CFAM incovles exploring the developmental life cycle, a cycle that is unique to each family.
Family Life Cycle
The typical path that most families go through.
Damily Functioning
Generally considered the family’s ability to meet the needs of its members; about balancing all the domains; cognitive, affective, and behavioral.
Index Person
Person with health concerns.
Emotional Communcation
The range and types of emotions/feelings that are expressed/observed.
Verbal Communication
Oral or written messages. The focus is on the meaning of the message in terms of the relationship.
Non-Verbal Communication
Body posture, gestrures, eye contact, facial movement, and personal space.
Cultural Desire
The motivation of the nurse or healthcare provider to want to, rather than have to, engage in the process of becoming culturally aware, culturally knowledgeble, culturally skillful, and familiar with cultural encounters.
Culturally Competent Care
The ability to provide care with a client-centered orientation, recognizing the significant impact of culural values and beleifs as well as power and hierachy often inherent in clinical interactions, particularly between clients from marginalized groups and healthcare organizations.
