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| "Two or more people who are joined together by bonds of sharing and intimacy"(Meyer 1990). |
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| The challenges of assessing families. |
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1.Diversity of ethnic groups.
2.Family forms
3.Hostile or indifferent environment |
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| An entity in which each of its parts or elements interact with each other in a predictable organized fashion |
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| Content of a System Framework for Assessing Family Functioning |
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External System impinging on the family.
Family Homeostasis
Family Rules
Content and Process Levels of Interaction.
Sequences of Interaction
Employing "Circular" Explanation of Behavior |
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| Challenges for assessing culturally pluralistic population |
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| Practitioners must become culturally sensitive to diverse ethnic groups and extricate themselves from viewing their values and lifestyle as the standard of reference for all others |
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| Mechanism develop to maintain balance in their structure and operation |
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| Limited number of implicit agreements that prescribe the rights , duties and range of appropriate behaviors |
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| How are implicit rules inferred? |
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| Observation of family interaction and communication |
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| What are some examples of the insidious effects of dysfunctional rules |
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1 Severe emotional damage
2 Inflexible to changing circumstances
3 Restricting choices and opportunity for growth |
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| Effects of Functional Rules |
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| Respond flexibly to environmental stress, to individual needs, to the needs of the family. Contribute to the development of capable, adaptive and healthy family members |
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| Repetitive sequence of behavior and communication |
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| stylized or patterned behavior and communication of ruled governed families |
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| Habitual modes of restoring conditions to previous state of equilibrium |
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| Form of negative feedback filled with:"shoulds," "ougths," "don'ts" also through anger , depression, silence, guilt induction |
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| Optimally functioning families |
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| Family system tendency toward stability, a state of dynamic equilibrium.(Becvar and Becvar 1988) |
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| Family system-enhancing behavior that allows for growth , creativity, innovation and change |
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| Responding successfully to inner and outer stressors requires: |
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| constant transformation of the rules and behaviors of family members |
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| Content and Process levels of interaction |
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Content:what is being said
Process: the underlying intent or meaning of message by behavior when talking about their problem |
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| Scenarios or a series or of transactions in which they manifest redundancies in behavior and communication |
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| Three types of differences that may be usefully explored in family assessment using a circular explanation of behavior |
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| 1 Different between individuals(e.g. "Who get angry the most?"), differences between relationships (e.g.the way individuals interacts with other individuals)and differences between time periods (e.g. haw individual got along between last year as compare to this year |
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| Dimensions of Family Assessment |
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| 1 family context. 2 Outer boundaries of family systems. 3Internal boundaries and family subsystem. 4 Family power structure. 5 Family decision making processes. 6 Family affect and range of feelings expressed. 7 family goals. 8 Family myths and cognitive patterns. 9 Family roles. 10. Communication styles of family members. 11 Family strengths. 12 Family life cycles |
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| Format for utilizing the dimensions of of family assessment |
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1 Identify the dimensions that are most relevant to your clients.
2 Use the dimensions to guide your exploration of family behavior.
3 Use the dimensions as guidelines for compressing new data into themes and patterns
4 Based on the relevant dimensions develop a written profile of functional and dysfunctional behaviors of individual members of the system.
5 Employ the dimensions to assess relevant behaviors of the entire family,developing a profile of salient functional and dysfunctional behavior that are manifested by the system itself |
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| Access to basic resource e.g. food, healthcare, housing, finacial aid, job training, cultural milieu, sexual orientation, family form |
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| Percieving understanding and comparing simutaneously the values attitudes of the larger societal system with those of the client's immediate family and the community system |
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Outer boundaries of family system
Three Prototypical bounding arrangement of families are |
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| Open, Closed Random (Kantor and Lehr 1975) |
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| Strict regulation that limit transaction with the external environment, restrict incoming and outgoing people, objects, information, and ideas. Feature are: locked doors, tight parental control over input from the media, supervised excursions, closed srutiny of strangers, trepass prohibition, high fences, unlisted telephone numbers |
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| Flexible boundaries, individual regulate their own incoming and outgoing traffic. numerous guest in the house, visting with friends, involved in external activities,belonging to outside groups, paticipating in community affairs minimal censorship of the media |
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| no family boundary per se, conflict and affection may occur in public as well as indoors |
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| Internal boundaries and family subsystems |
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| Family members entering into separate and reciprocal relationships with other members of the nuclear family |
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Enmeshed family system
(inappropriately rigid boundaries) |
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| Everyone thinking and feeling alike, membership requires a major sacrifice of autonomy thereby discouraging members from exploration, independent action and problem solving. |
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Disengaged family system
(diffused boundaries) |
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| Tolerate a wide range of individual variations by members but are apt to lack feelings of family solidarity, loyaty and a sense of belonging. Family organization is unstable and chaotic with leadership often shifting moment to moment |
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Family power structure
Power can be describe as |
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| The capacity of one family member to induce change in the behavior of another member |
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Distribution of power
Monolithic power in families refers to |
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| Either the husband or wife makes all the decision, or both participate equally |
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