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
Since a family is the most fundamental unit holding up a society as well as individuals, people often witness a family as a whole overcoming adversity, making impossible to possible. Behind such wonders, many believe that there are invisible power only shared within a family members and that keeps a family united and moving forward. What is the hidden power and what makes up a family of 21st century? This essay, therefore, will review the general definition of a family in a contemporary society, discuss the framework of family strengths and finally will examine how the family strengths can be applied in health care practice.
The "secret" to attaining a strong family, according to the 1985 book Secrets of Strong Families, by Nick Stinnett and John Defrain, involves commitment, appreciation, communication, time, spiritual wellness, and coping ability (14). While this seems like a six-step program, it makes a lot of sense. The family must come first in family, thus, commitment. Sexual fidelity, traditions, and sacrifice make a family stronger by creating close ties with the family members (Defrain and Stinnett 21-39). Appreciation involves the children doing the dishes every once in a while, surprising your wife with flowers, or a trip to McDonalds. Communication is key in any type of relationship, especialy in a family. No one wants to be alone in this world, and communication helps to build a sense of belonging and solve problems (Defrain and Stinnett 62-63). Spending "quality" time together is important for a family.
The valued family structure has been the foundation for generations in history; however, the traditional American family is changing. The revolution has been influenced by the “choices people make and the constraints that limit those choices” (Benokraitis 21). The family structure is forever changing as a result of many dynamics including micro-level and macro-level influences. Fluctuations in the family unit are affected by these factors. These factors should be kept in perspective, stressing the individual choice while not neglecting the macro-level influences. Micro-level influences are personal situations such as a couple not saving money for an unplanned pregnancy. Macro-level influences are comprised of things such as economic forces,
Healthy functioning in the family is a goal that many families strive for, but not all are able to achieve with ease. The family functioning, all of the interactions and emotional current in the home have a significant impact on the individuals involved. Childhood development is one area that is particularly affected. Whether good or bad, the family system and environment influences the cognitive, emotional, and physical development of the children and can establish positive or negative cognitive and behavioral traits that remain for a life-time.
Sociologically, a family is defined as a kinship system of all relatives living together or recognized as a social unit, including adopted people. The family is regarded as the basic social institution because of its important functions of procreation and socialization, and because it is found in all societies. Within the last sixty years, many changes to the family have occurred and much research was, and is, being conducted on the family. A big question being asked is, what makes a family strong and healthy? Nick Stinnett and John Defrain underwent thirty years of research to define what they believe are six characteristics of strong healthy families with the addition of two more characteristics made by other researchers.
Erecting and fortifying bonds between family members is critical to the happiness of a family. When you k...
For example, the daily practices of sharing meals, bedtime routines, and family rituals (like holidays or weekly traditions) cultivate certain virtues and affections in children and adults alike. These practices embed within family members a sense of belonging, priorities, and values that
The strengths perspective focuses on the strengths and resiliency in a family in order to overcome struggles and assist the family in reaching their full potential. The premise of this perspective is that every family has capabilities that can be built upon to triumph over adversity. These difficulties are seen as opportunities for growth in the family. Although this approach is strength based, it is important not to dismiss problems within the family, instead focus on the strengths that can be used to overcome problems (Anderson, 2013). This perspective moves away from the problem focused medical model and instead focuses on strengths in order to help families achieve their goals related to well-being.
It is important for practitioner to be aware that families that exist nowadays are increasingly becoming more divers and complex over time.
Intro and Career Highlights Dr. Tara Fenwick is the current Professor of Professional Education and Director of Research at the School of Education at the University of Stirling in Scotland. Dr. Fenwick has a PhD in Educational Policy Studies. Previously Dr. Fenwick worked for the University of British Columbia in Vancouver Canada as a Professor and Head of Educational Studies. Dr. Fenwick has had over 103 publications and 2004 was awarded by the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education the Cyril O. Houle award for her book Learning Through Experience, Troubling Assumptions and Intersecting Questions, NIACE, 2003. The Houle award is widely regarded as the most important for literature on Adult Education in the English Speaking
Family is the basic unit of society. A family is a set of interacting individuals related by blood, marriage, cohabitation, or adoption who interdependently perform relevant functions by fulfilling expected roles. Health practices are those activities performed by individuals or families as a whole to promote health and prevent diseases. The relationship between members of family influences the understanding of behavior, which is demonstrated in family’s structural, functional, communicational, and developmental patterns (American Academy of Pediatrics, 2003; Bonell et al., 2003).Within families, children and adults are nurtured and taught about health values by word and by example, and it is within families that members first learn to make choices to promote health (Edelman & Mandle, 2010, p. 172).
The family is a societal institution which initiates the positive and negative process of social interactions between people. Over the last few decades what constitutes the family has changed all over the world. Family in today’s environment is diverse in nature and may go beyond the scope of parents and children. Families can consist of variations in relationships such as close relatives, stepparents, half siblings and extended non-biological family members. Normally, immediate family members live in the same house, nearby, until the child reaches a specified age and maturity to go into the world and start their own family. Most often members of the families have intimate and personal relationships with each other. Within the family there is a continuation of social interactions between members that can influence and shape peoples responses and reactions to their larger societies.
Family by its nature is a social unit wherein children grow up and it acts like the socialization agent. Children receive their earliest and most consistent socialization here in the family. In a family it is very important as to how parents cater the needs of their children and how children take care of them in return. Parents as well as the child are very important part of the developmental process, as it is the parents who will shape the children as what they will become. The parent child relationship influences each other and together they shape the relationship they engage in it. Family is a social unit where in all the members living together is related to one another. Family is regarded
Families provide people with an atmosphere in which to live, grow, and develop. A family culture is established by the parents and instilled in the children during their upbringing. A healthy family is a family which follows a set of strong morals, stays loyal to one another, cooperates, and works together to avoid conflict. An environment where there is openness amongst family members is ideal because minds that are open are more susceptible to avoiding conflict than minds that are closed. If conflict gets the best of a family, it has the potential to increase hostility and create remoteness between family members, however, if a family resolves conflict, it can strengthen and enforce the family relationships.
Everyone is born into some form of family, with the family taking the responsibility of nurturing, teaching the norms or accepted behaviors within the family structure and within society. There are many types of families, which can be described as a set of relationships including parents and children and can include anyone related by blood or adoption. Family is the most important, “for it is within the family that the child is first socialized to serve the needs of the society and not only its own needs” (Goode, 1982).