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family as context |
the family is viewed as the environment/context within which individuals are assessed. empasis on individual. generalist |
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family as a unit |
family is viewed as a whole. emphasis on the family. focus is on the interaction and dynamics among family members. specialist in family care practice |
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consangiuneous |
blood relationships |
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affinial |
marital relationships |
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family of origin |
the family one is born into |
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traditional family |
a family characterized by: presence of children, legality, blood kinship bonds, intergenerational, lifestyle that has its genesis in the family. |
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wider family |
a family that emerges from lifestyle, voluntary, independent of necessary biological or kin connections; accommodating; adaptable |
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risk factors for vulnerability |
poverty, insufficient physical and emotional resourcesfor critical tasks and family functions, inappropriate or distorted attempts to offset stressors |
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strategies for working with vulnerable families |
family unit focus, focus on strengths/healthy characteristics, treat families with respect, the lived experience of the family must be the basi of care (we need to know the family perspective) |
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role of nurse in family centered care |
encourage and enhance the strengths and competence of the family, and appreciate families as families |
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information, practices and policies, enabling and empowerment |
methods or mechanisms of family centered care |
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therapeutic relationships |
essential foundation for quality care; positive, professional boundaries; promote family control, strength, and competence |
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family advocacy |
the primary professional nursing responsibility; assist family to id needs and goals; ensure awareness of services and information to support informed choices; acting in the child's and family's best interest |
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family systems theory |
Cybernetics (science that describes the way units interact with Lg and Sm units); emphasizes the interdependenceof the family's parts; science of wholeness (whole > sum of parts). from psych and soc. continuous interaction within family and environment. creates a change in other members which results in change of the original members..any problems lie within the entire family's interactions. tends to focus on the "dysfunctional" families |
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therapeutic approaches to the family systems theory |
focus on the family as a unit, encourage an open vs. closed system; focus on the "here-and-now" vs. "historical" family interactions |
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Newman's system theory |
a family systems model. the ways that family members express themselves influence the whole and create the basic structure of the family. the major goal for nursing is to help stabalize the family system within its environment, |
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King's open systems model |
a family systems model. nurses and families are in partnership, in family nursing we are helping individuals to reach goals through improved interaction or communication. |
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Roy;s adaptation model |
a family systems model. the family is an adaptive system that can learn and develop. Focal, contextual, and residual stimuli promote adaptation. |
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Rogers' life process model |
a family systems model. the family is described as an "irreducible, pandimentional, negentropic family energy field." Some concepts include integrility, resonancy, and helicy |
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family stress theory |
a theory that explains how the families react to stressful events and suggests factors that promote adaptation. recognizes stressors can be predictable and unpredictable and can accumulate and overwhelm our capacity to cope....which puts the family at risk...which can lead to a crisis. adaptation is through structure and interaction. |
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family resiliency model |
a model of family stress, adjustment, and adaptation shows that not all stressors are detrimental or become pathologic, but can result in enhanced strength, health, and resiliency |
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McCubbins' Model |
emphasizes family adaptation and enumerates family tyrpes and levels of vulnerability. |
