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NU-2020 Quiz 2

The document summarizes several key family social science theories used in nursing assessments, including structure-function theory, systems theory, and developmental theory. It also describes the Friedman Family Assessment Model, which draws on these theories and takes a macroscopic approach to assessing a family's structure, functions, and relationships. Additionally, the document outlines common family life cycle stages, coping strategies, tools for collecting a family story and health concerns, and using a genogram to display family relationships and health patterns over generations.

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NU-2020 Quiz 2

The document summarizes several key family social science theories used in nursing assessments, including structure-function theory, systems theory, and developmental theory. It also describes the Friedman Family Assessment Model, which draws on these theories and takes a macroscopic approach to assessing a family's structure, functions, and relationships. Additionally, the document outlines common family life cycle stages, coping strategies, tools for collecting a family story and health concerns, and using a genogram to display family relationships and health patterns over generations.

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Family Social Science Theories  Enhance nurses ability to make clinical judgments and connect

Structure-Function Theory - views the family as a social system with them to family structure and history
members who have specific roles and functions.
Systems Theory - describes families as a unit of the whole composed of Ecomap
members whose interactional patterns are the focus of attention.  Visual diagram of the family unit in relation to other units or sub-
Developmental Theory - emphasizes how families change over time and systems in the community
focuses on interactions and relationships among family members.  Serve as a tool to organize and present factual information and
Interactionist Theory - focuses on the family as a unit of interacting thus allows the nurse to have a more holistic and integrated
personalities and examines the communication processes by which family perception of the family situation
members relate to one another.  Nature of relationship among/between family members and the
community
Friedman Family Assessment Model
 Draws heavily on structure-function framework and on
developmental and systems theory.
 Macroscopic approach to family assessment.
 Focus of this approach is assessing the family’s structure
(organization) and functions (activities and purposes) and the
family’s relationship to each other social system.

Underlying Assumptions of Friedman Family Assessment Model


1. The family is a social system with functional requirements.
2. A family is a small group possessing certain generic features common to all
small groups.
3. The family as a social system accomplishes functions that serve the
individual and society.
4. Individuals act in accordance with a set of internalized norms and values
that are learned primarily in the family through socialization.

Family Life Cycle Stages


1. Leaving home; single young adults
2. Joining of families through marriage; the new couple
3. Families with young children
4. Families with adolescents
5. Launching children and moving on
6. Families in later life

Burr and Klein’s Conceptual Framework of Coping Strategies


Be accepting of the situation and others.
Gain useful knowledge.
Change how the situation is viewed or defined (reframe).
Express feelings and affection.
Avoid or resolve negative feelings and disabling expressions of
emotions.
Be sensitive to other’s emotional needs.
Increase cohesion (togetherness).
Increase adaptability.
Develop increased trust.
Increase cooperation.
Increase tolerance of one another.

Family Story
 Provides information about individual family members and a
family as a whole
 Getting a family story represented the data collection process
 Nurses collect data via many different methods
o Interviewing
o Chart Review
o Process Logs
o Phone Logs
o Phone conversations with professionals
o Previous visits
o School records
 Determines key health concerns of the family
 FAMILY PROJECT
Genogram
 Displays pertinent family information in a family tree format that
shows family members, and there relationships over at least 3
generations.
 Shows family history and patters of health related information
 Rich source for planning interventions

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