Family Strengths

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Observing and recognising family strengths and family diversity are one of the important tasks for health care providers because doing those can help identify patients’ needs. During the Task 1a artefact presentation, all students presented their unique family artefacts, describing the meaning of their artefacts, and how the artefacts signified their own family strengths. My artefact was the Bible that represented the strengths of togetherness and sharing activities in my family. This written reflection allows to reflect on my aforementioned family strengths and other students’ family strengths to comprehend family strengths and family diversity more deeply. In contemporary society, family has a number of definitions within many different contexts and families have a great impact on the health and wellbeing of Australian children. This brief reflection paper reflects on my experience of participating in the artefact presentation and the concept of family diversity and family strengths in contemporary Australian society. My artefact that I presented in the tutorial, the Bible, represented my family strengths of togetherness and sharing activities. Using the Bible, my family in South Korea used to do a worship time together every other Wednesday …show more content…

Smith and Ford (2013) highlight the importance of these family strengths as they give family power to endure hardship. Family ritual, which is a regularly scheduled behavior for some specific occasions, provides family members an opportunity to communicate and share memories, and therefore, it helps family members stay connected as one group, and this makes healthy family (Kaakinen et al. 2014). Batanova & Louka (2014) states that positive healthy relationship with family helps children be more sociable and less

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