Types of Family Composition
All individuals are "married" to one another and are considered parents of all the children
What is a group marriage?
Allows one to examine the interdependence among all parts and how it affects and supports the functional whole
What is General Systems Theory?
Uses a standardized set of connections to graphically record basic information about family members and their relationships over three generations.
What is a genogram?
Inquiring about the family's cultural identity, rituals, values, level of family involvement, decision making, spiritual beliefs, and traditional behaviors as it relates to the health care of the patient.
What is the assessment phase?
As a health care provider, use the definition "They are who they say they are" to describe this term.
What is a family?
Nuclear family unit's combination of second- and third generation members related by blood or marriage but not living together
What is an extended family?
Conceptualizes the family as an interactive emotional unit
What is Bowen's Systems Theory?
Visually illustrates relationships between family members and the external environment.
What is an ecomap?
Giving commendations, providing information, and encouraging family support.
What is the implementation phase?
Within a systems model, this refers to what is introduced into the system in the form of information, energy, and resources (like in the human system, individuals take in food, liquids and oxygen to nourish the body)
What are inputs?
Husband and wife or other couple living alone without children
What is a dyad family?
Emphasizes how the family unit has subsystems, hierarchies, and boundaries.
What is Structural Family Theory?
Offer a visual diagram that captures significant family stressors, life events, health, and developmental patterns through the life cycle.
What is a family time line?
Summarizing the interaction, asking the family if they have questions, and providing information regarding follow-up assist in providing closure to the nurse-patient/family relationship.
What is the evaluation phase?
These types of questions lead to introspection, greater depth of understanding, and behavior change.
What are circular interventive questions?
Groups of individuals (may or may not be related) living together and sharing resources
What is a commune?
Eight specific tasks are outlined starting with a childless couple and ending with retirement.
What is Developmental Family Theory?
Examples on this type of family assessment tool include school, work, church, neighborhood friends, recreation activities, health care facilities or home care, and extended family.
What is an ecomap?
Interventive questioning using either linear questions or circular questions is part of this phase of the nursing process.
What is the planning phase?
Failure to create context for change, taking sides, and giving too much advice prematurely are considered what when nurses communicate with families.
What are pitfalls to avoid?
A combination of two families with children from one or both families and sometimes children of the newly married couple
What is a blended family or reconstituted family?
Family response to and coping with difficult events are explained.
What is Family Stress Theory?
Can be used to identify patterns of inheritable medical conditions; assumes that three generation family relationships will show patterns that are systematic, repetitive, and adaptive.
What is a genogram?
The nurse identifies if problems related to family communication and functioning exist.
What is the nursing diagnosis phase?
Characterized by biological parents living apart, family is born of loss, and there are two sets of family traditions.
What is a blended family?