Midterm Flashcards
What is Homeostasis
Similar to equilibrium, homeostasis is a body’s tendency to keep an internal balance, despite changes in the external environment
What is the Systems Theory
(what does is suggest)
The theory suggests the individuals cannot be understood in isolation from one another.
Families are systems of interconnected and interdependent individuals and other systems
How does the system theory view Family?
What must be analyzed to change habitual family interactions that aren’t working?
Views Family as a structure of related subsystems. The sub systems interact with one another.
Sees family members as interdependent on one another.
To change habitual family interactions that aren’t working requires analyzing the interactions of subsystems
Is reference to equilibrium systems, develop typical ways of being which are __________ and ___________.
Systems develop typical ways of being which are
reliable and predictable
What is a baby mobile an example of
The systems theory and Homeostasis
A family system does not exist in isolation. From one another the movement, anyone part of the system will affect the rest of the parts the system.
The tendency of a family to do things normally, as they always have mobile, always been specs to its original position
An Example of systems having a typical way of being is
Family roles and rules
Families tend to develop patterns these patterns can become
“___________ ________”
Unspoken rules
What is Family Roles?
What is a problem with having roles?
What is expected of each family member
Impacts during a crisis when possibly a person who do the specific role is no longer able to do it. I this will cause more stress and impacts the resilience of a family to move through the crisis
Types of families that could experience alternate challenges
Single parent families, gender diverse, divorce, teenage parents, blended families.
Factors impacting adjustment with divorce
Parental conflict, number of changes, economic factors, absence of father, or mother, availability of both parents, extra responsibilities for the child, custody arrangements.
Reaction to divorce infant/toddler
Wont understand divorce but will react to changes in the quality and consistency of caregiving, showing increased irritability/upset or sleep patterns may change. Attachment to a less present parent may be impacted sense of trust/security.
Reaction to divorce preschoolers
Sense of family may be impacted without having the language or cognition to understand this kind of change. May see regressions in behavior. Egocentric thoughts may put themselves as the cause or the reason they will come back.
Reaction to divorce school-agers
Understand implications of divorce, but don’t have the means to cope, leaving them a little more vulnerable. May feel sad, deprived, lonely, angry, being more demanding, or disobedient, feelings of abandonment and loss of love, because they are not always given the details of the divorce they might try to make up their own reasoning.
Blended Families
A family consisting of a couple and their children from this and all previous relationships
Teenage parents risk
•Socioeconomically disadvantaged
•Difficulty in completing education
•may have a limited knowledge about child rearing
•physical risks associated with teenage pregnancy
•significant risk of postpartum depression,
•impact on developmental stage during adolescence
•fathers have unrealistic view on support which often leads to abandonment
•impact on grandparent roles
varying Adjustments to parenthood can be influenced by:
Family structure (first time family, single, parent, step parents
Economic situation
cultural factors
individual differences
available support
What are some of the life changes that may effect parenting
Money, sleep, meals, social life, financial, health of child or parents, children naturally age, as parents age impact of stressors within the systems around them, ageing grandparent, illness of child, school starting, high school transition, the addition of siblings
How does parenting change with the addition of siblings?
Parent has to spread themselves over more children, sharing the parents resources, the reaction of the older children, new baby
Roles of parenting for Early childhood
Protect
