Family Education Program Analysis

The purpose of this paper is to incorporate one family's experience of living with multiple chronic illnesses into the Calgary Family Assessment Model (CFAM) and Rolland's Chronic Health Challenge Framework. CFAM was developed by Dr. Lorraine M. Wright, a professor Emeritus of nursing and by Dr. Maureen Leahey, a manager of a mental health outpatient program both have over 25 years experience while still managing to supervise, teach, consult, write, and maintain a part-time clinical practice in individual, couple, and family therapy (Moxie, 2007). CFAM allows nurses to assess families during interviews. CFAM is a multidimensional framework consisting of three major categories: structural, dimensional and functional. (Wright & Leahey, 2005)

In order to provide services to children and families involved with the child welfare system, FGDM’s need to come from a family centered and a strengths based approach. When families are given the opportunity to demonstrate their strengths and they are recognized, respected, affirmed they are more willing to make take initiative towards change and use those strengths as their foundation. Family focused services are focused in working with families in order to improve their level of functioning. The entire family needs to be addressed in order to provide a safe, stable, supportive, and a permanent environment for the child (Department of Social Services, n.d). When using the strength based approach with individuals seeking mental health services it has been found to increase self-esteem, self-efficacy, personal confidence, sense of hope and life satisfaction (Tse, et al., 2016).

Family-Centered Practice influences my practice with child welfare involved with families because the main focuses is on children’s safety and needs. For example, when Ms. Martinez agreed to participate in an AODA assessment meaning that she was going to entered a program in order for her to say clean. Also, Trauma Informed Practice helps out child welfare professionals to understand the impact of trauma on the children when they are involved with the families. For example, the placement worker thought about placing the three brothers in the same home with their maternal grandmother Aurora Garcia, but she brought them back to the DCFS because she was no longer capable to take care of them. After that happen the placement worker had to think

Academics have been a priority in my family since I started school. Throughout my years of schooling I have learned to not underestimate myself. In my middle school years I always took GT classes, I received the presidential award for excellence and got a personal letter from the president Barack Obama. I was also on honor roll throughout my 3 years in middle school.

Interventions are a key component when assisting individuals and families with issues that present in their lifestyle. There are number of interventions for issues that can generate a change for the better. Two interventions part of the Strategic Family Therapy model to use for L.E. and her daughter, B.V., and their issues are to work on changing their issues outside of sessions, and to interrupt/intervene when there are unhealthy sequences that are being shown in the sessions. These two chosen interventions are beneficial for both of them to work on changing interactions and behaviors when in and not in the sessions with my assistance. L.E. and B.V. working on changing the issues that are present in their and affecting their relationship outside

Describe two specific strategies that you would use in your own childhood care and education program for each of Epstein’s six types of family involvement. (10 points). One of the strategies I would use in my own childhood care/education program is to make each student feel safe and welcome. This strategy will help me a lot in demonstrating each children’s a parenting style. Another strategy would be communication, for instance, involving each children’s family to come and volunteer. I would like to include each family to come for parent’s conference to know more about their children’s evolution in the classroom. Also, to send home activities. That way parents help their child’s learn at home. Last strategy would be collaborating with the community in collecting cans, clothes, money, and other resources to help the community.

Most American’s have grown up with this idea of what a family is supposed to be, how it is structured and how it functions. Throughout time the idea’s have changed and evolved but the ideal “American family” is generally the same. A father, mother, a little boy and girl who live in the suburban’s with the white picket fence. There is this idea that the earlier American family was perfect, or near it. Every person in the family had their place and did their duties. Few toed the line and families stuck together no matter what. That may have been more accurate at a time, but the reason is far from just the idea that times where easier. Families stuck together because of strong religious prohibitions and community norms. This was a time where

As stated earlier in this section, depression in elementary aged students can be difficult to pick up on. Since this is the case, advocacy for these students becomes paramount. Along the same lines as treatment, the best plan for advocating for these students is to take a preventative approach. Another way to advocate is to get the parents involved. In a section talking about anxiety Huberty (2012) stated that including a family intervention was more effective for children 7-10. Now, it is important to state that this finding was concerning anxiety and not depression. However, the family intervention was part of a CBT intervention, which, Huberty (2012) argues is a well-supported method for treating both anxiety and depression.

“Family-centered care” is a term heard often in healthcare settings and in nursing practice. Family-centered care has been recognized as being an integral part to patient health, satisfaction and health care quality (Kuo, et al, 2012). Family-centered care is implemented with the goal to increase partnerships between, families, patients and providers; and has been prioritized as a core-concept of quality healthcare (Gallo, Hill, Hoagwood & Olin, 2016) Many professionals, however, would be hard-pressed to state what the term “family-centered care” actually means and how it applies to nursing practice. They would be at a loss for how to implement family-centered care and what is absolutely necessary to have in order for family-centered care to be successful. Advanced practice nurses are faced with the challenge of adhering to family-centered care in their practice. Illness, both chronic and acute, and health does not just affect the patient involved in care. Illness and health affect the patient, their children, their spouses, their parents, their brothers, their sisters, their grandparents and anyone else involved in their life. Research by Davidson (2009) supports the idea that the perceived effectiveness of communication between healthcare providers and the patient’s family is related to the overall satisfaction of care. Advance

The way I used the Family Impact Analysis was by going through each of the principles to understand their purpose. Once I did that, I went through each of the questions of the principles to fully understand the questions. This helped me with analyzing the Act to the best of my ability. Then, I read through the Act a couples time before I used the checklist. After that, I went through the checklist and rated the Act for each question under each principle. The five principles are family responsibility, family stability, family relationships, family diversity, and family engagement. Family responsibility asked questions that dealt with supporting family functions, ability to balance time commitments,and caregiving responsibility. Family stability

The purpose of this reflection paper is portray the knowledge that I have learned throughout this semester regarding the multisystem utilized to identify traits and behaviors associated with the assessments of family members. Marta Lundy’s article gave a brief history of theoretical integration as she describe a multi-systemic, multi-theoretical integrative model for social work practice, even though each reading assignment was associated with a movie or a book provided by the instructor and required all students to provide a written analysis.

Growing up, I’d always been expected to do well in school. Which isn’t out of the ordinary, every parent wants their child to be successful and have a beneficial career. So, since good grades were what my parents expected that’s what I got. All throughout elementary, I strived to do my absolute best in every subject. At my sixth grade graduation I was awarded the Presidential Award for Academic Achievement, in my junior high years I did well as well. My eighth-grade year I achieved my goal of obtaining a 4.0 G.p.a. The first year of high school was nerve-racking but I still managed to keep my grades up. However, Sophomore year was definitely a bump in the road for me. In all my ten years of being in school (including head start and kindergarten)

He was a member of the Virginia secretary of health and human services’ mental health system reform task force from 1995 to 1996. He was a part of the Virginia legislature, courts, and state board of education, he testified in writing and orally before various state political bodies on 6 different occasions. He was also a part of Virginia Congress of Parents and Teachers and presented five bills before stated conventions, while testifying on many others. He was involved in local PTAs, school system, in Henrico County, Virginia. He was a member of the community involvement team for Family Life Education in Henrico County for the school board.

3. Become aware of the “alive versus the inanimate” and “familiar versus unfamiliar” and develop rudimentary social interaction.

The Lazar family resides in Whittier California. This is a two parent family in which 42-year-old Steve (S) is the