Healthy Family Qualities
This healthy family quality means being truthful, upfront, fair, and straightforward with yourself and others.
What is honesty?
This unhealthy relationship role feels the need to constantly be in charge, makes the rules, and has difficulty compromising or sharing decisions.
Who is the Dominator?
This ground rule means accepting where you and your family relationships are today rather than expecting everything to immediately be the way it once was.
What is having realistic expectations?
Showing children love and support through both words and caring actions helps provide this important parental need.
What is emotional support?
In this stage, a person may not yet recognize that their behavior needs to change or may not be considering change at all.
What is Precontemplation?
This quality involves understanding, accepting, and appreciating each family member's unique qualities - even when they differ from yours.
What is respect?
This role puts personal wants and needs first while ignoring basic responsibilities and the needs of other family members.
Who is the Neglector?
Expressing your thoughts and feelings while also allowing family members to share theirs is part of this ground rule.
What is practicing good communication?
Providing adequate clothing, proper nutrition, a clean place to live, and protection from harm is part of this parental responsibility.
What is providing a safe, healthy environment?
In this stage, a person recognizes there may be a problem and begins thinking seriously about making a change.
What is Contemplation?
This quality is built over time through consistent, responsible behavior and showing that others can rely on what you do.
What is trust?
This person may lie, hide the truth, or exploit other people in order to get what they want.
Who is the Manipulator?
Recognizing and emphasizing the positive things about family members and your relationships with them demonstrates this ground rule.
What is showing appreciation?
Preparing for employment, managing money responsibly, and making sure a child's needs are met are ways a parent provides this.
What is financial security?
'I know what I need to change, and I've started making a plan for how I'm going to do it.' This describes which stage?
What is Preparation?
This quality means recognizing and understanding the needs, feelings, and viewpoints of family members and showing concern through your behavior.
What is caring?
This role often avoids conflict, lets others make the decisions, and may use circumstances as a reason for avoiding personal responsibility.
Who is the Victim?
Instead of yelling, threatening, or walking away from every disagreement, family members work through problems constructively. Which ground rule are they practicing?
What is handling conflicts effectively?
Talking with your children, participating in activities with them, taking an interest in their lives, and giving them focused attention demonstrates this parental responsibility.
What is spending time with your children?
A person has moved beyond planning and is actively changing behaviors and putting new skills into practice.
What is Action?
Marcus has learned to identify what he thinks and feels and put those feelings into words with family members he trusts. He understands that he doesn't have to share everything with everyone. Which healthy family quality is he practicing?
What is openness?
A family member says, 'My way is the way we're doing it.' They refuse to listen to anyone else's concerns and make an important family decision without anyone else's input. What unhealthy role are they demonstrating, and name one healthier behavior they could use instead.
Who is the Dominator? Healthier behavior: share decision-making, listen to others' ideas and concerns, compromise, or practice open-mindedness.
After being away from his family, a father wants to reconnect. He accepts that relationships may have changed, communicates openly, and begins spending enjoyable quality time with his family. Name TWO healthy ground rules he is practicing.
Any two: having realistic expectations; practicing good communication; sharing positive experiences.
A parent tells their child what behavior is expected, explains the consequences ahead of time, and follows through the same way consistently. What parental responsibility is being demonstrated?
What is establishing fair and consistent rules and limits?
Someone has made positive changes and is now working to continue those behaviors over time and prevent returning to old patterns.
What is Maintenance?