Family Assessment Research Paper

Family can be defined as a group consisting of parents and children living together. The role of the family is to help meet the basic human needs of society (Harris, 2008). The family is the social system and the larger biological context within which medical problems arise and are controlled overtime; therefore knowledge of the family can be significant for understanding the aetiology of the disease and the interventions to manage the disease (Harris, 2008). This essay will discuss about family assessment, the importance of family assessment and its features, the strength and limitations of the family assessment tools and also the role of the nurse to help meet the basic human needs of families. Family assessment is a systematic process of gathering information about a certain family, it aims for a full understanding and a primary view of a family and also it helps to identify the meeds of families with multiple needs (De Bruyn, 2005). The importance of the family assessment is to provide a model for understanding , describing and assessing family strengths, difficulties and competencies, provides a range of approaches for engaging with and talking to families about their lives

Asking questions to the person who is feeding the child on how the child is often difficult to feed, how is the child doing while feeding will help identify the problem. observation of the child at meal time and mostly important should be focus on the person who is feeding the child , the interaction with the child, and the response of the person to adaptive and maladaptive feeding behaviours and the feeding surroundings, such noise, having toys around, etc...they are assessment that nurses should you use to do the observation such as feeding interaction scales and maladaptive feeding behaviours scales(Chawla, Thukral,, Agarwal, Deorari and Paul,