Types of Families
This type of family consists of a married couple and their biological children.
What is a nuclear family?
This is the ability to pay full attention to a speaker and understand their message.
What is active listening?
This side of the health triangle includes regular exercise, eating nutritious food, and getting enough sleep.
What is physical health?
This challenge occurs when parents end their marriage and live separately.
What is divorce?
This form of abuse involves hitting, slapping, kicking, or other physical harm.
What is physical abuse?
This type of family forms when one or both partners bring children from previous relationships into a new marriage.
What is a stepfamily (or blended family)?
Facial expressions, gestures, posture, and tone of voice are examples of this type of communication.
What is nonverbal communication?
This side of the triangle involves your thoughts, feelings, and how you cope with stress.
What is mental/emotional health?
A family may face this challenge when they move to a new city or country and must adjust to a different culture.
What is moving or relocation?
This type of abuse uses words to hurt someone’s feelings, lower their self-esteem, or control them.
What is emotional or verbal abuse?
Families formed through adoption or fostering children are examples of this type.
What is a foster or adoptive family?
This type of communication is respectful, clear, and confident without being aggressive.
What is assertive communication?
This part of health involves relationships and the ability to interact well with others.
What is social health?
his type of challenge can include job loss, medical bills, or struggling to afford basic needs.
What is a financial problem?
This form of abuse occurs when someone forces another person into unwanted sexual activity.
What is sexual abuse?
This family type includes relatives such as aunts, uncles, and cousins living together.
What is an extended family?
This communication barrier occurs when someone assumes they know what the other person is going to say.
What is assumptions?
When one side of the health triangle is ignored, this happens to your overall health.
What is it becomes unbalanced?
Families often struggle when dealing with this issue, which can involve arguing, yelling, or violence at home.
What is domestic conflict or abuse?
This type of abuse involves controlling someone’s access to money, work, or financial resources.
What is financial abuse?
Families where children are raised by single parents fall under this category.
What is a single-parent family?
The process of sending, receiving, and understanding messages between people is known as this.
What is interpersonal communication?
This is the goal of the health triangle, where all three sides are equally strong and maintained.
What is total or overall wellness?
This challenge arises when someone in the family is dealing with anxiety, depression, or another mental condition.
What is a mental health issue?
When someone is repeatedly targeted with bullying, threats, or manipulation by a partner or family member, it is known as this broader category.
What is domestic abuse?