Family Observation Paper

In life many individuals will experience the joys of marital bliss with the pleasure of happiness when they see their spouse, the thought of living their entire lives together, starting and raising a family, the process of buying their first home together as a married couple, and overall embarking on a new and profound journey with the one they love; on the contrary however many of these same couples will encounter times in the relationship and within their immediate family that will include feelings of: being overwhelmed, stressed, annoyed with their spouse, children, stepchildren “as many families are blended due to many first marriages ending in divorce after children have been conceived,” stress from work, bills, as well as the many other

I decided for my social observation the mall would be a good place to start. I came there on a Friday evening when there should be plenty of people to watch. I also sat in the Barnes and Noble café after that to observe. I expected to see a lot of people shopping and conversing. A few things did stand out to me within the few hours I was there. Some things I didn’t expect to see. We are expected to behave a certain way in public determined by our culture as to what is acceptable. Some people stay well within the lines while some might stray outside the norms but never too far typically. Usually the ones to travel to the extremes are adolescents and teenagers. This is what I observed.

They are on a regular diet with few restrictions on fried foods and fat intake. The children eat school lunch and the parents from outside restaurant choices. Mom tries to cook a meal a day after work or they seldom eat Subway or Pizza Hut. No variation in weight gain or weight loss reported. They try to eat dinner as a family at home on a regular basis. However, this was not feasible all of the time due to dad’s late night work hours and CH basketball practices after school. They generally get 6-7 hours of sleep per night and denied any sleep deprivation. No exercise program has been implemented by this family. CH is the only physically, athletic member. DH stated that he likes to ride his bike. The children are active in Sunday school and participate in summer camp.

The typical black family has only six percent of the typical white household, and Latinos has eight percent of the typical white household. The median white household had $111,146 in wealth in 2011, $7,113 for the median black household and $8,348 for the median Latino household. This is a huge gap because of the economic disadvantages for people of color. The economic gap means that families of color cannot have the same benefits as white families. With homeownership, about 73% of white peoples own homes, while only 45% of black families and 47% of Latino families own homes. Also white family’s homes are worth more than other families of color. That inequality comes from the 1934 National Housing Act that redlined black neighborhoods, which

An interprofessional team consisting of Medical student, Pharmacist student, Nursing student and social work student met with Patient (A.O.) to perform a collaborative family assessment in a home visit. A.O. went to foster care for two months, but his father gained custody in July 2012. The father mentioned the foster care had an effect on A.O. A.O. lives with his father and his grandmother. The father works at a thrift store. A.O.’s Mother has Neurofibromatosis Type I too. The father mentioned that A.O. had a speech delay. A.J.’s father mentioned that they received assistance from the government. A.O.’s grandmother and father reported that he eats a good variety of food as he eats fruits and vegetables. A.O. reported liking pizza and McDonalds

“For a brief period after her marriage her life seemed like a bright and beautiful dream, full of hope and radiant with joy. And then here came a change he found other attractions that lay beyond the pale home

First off I wanted to say thank you for your continued support during this journey against MCAD. It truly means a lot having the support. Your two, are a part of what make my bad days better, and my good days even better. If its not Greta giving me her cute little smile, or one of her Greta hugs, or Otto running into my room screaming every morning and smiling then running back out back, I don’t even know what I would. All the daycare kids helping my mom bring me things, helping me, and simply making my days better, I could not have asked for a better crew.

In my perspective, sometimes the reason why a family, a couple or an individual might seek therapy for might not be the root of their problem. This is where the symptomatic cycle will be helpful because it allows the therapist to work around what the family consider the problem to fully understand the family as a whole. I like that Micucci provided the common patterns within the symptomatic families because he discuss everything a therapist can expect from working with an adolescent. Micucci did a great job with the book and chapters like “How to Assess and Treat Problems”, because he did not just discuss the problems, he also provided details information on how to go about treating those problems. There are some textbooks that are difficult

The outcome of this change is positive because she ends up accepting love and finding a man that can fulfill her hefty needs. This first quotation comes before the interrupted wedding.

The Brown family is a nuclear family, consisting of 2 parents and 2 children. Mr. Brown the father is a 30-year-old man who was laid of work just before the birth of his second child. Mr. Brown has a college education, but has not been able to find a new job; he is a hard-working individual and while looking for a job, he delivers pizza, mows loans, and then also helps his wife around the house and take care of their children. Mr. Brown believes that he is in good health because he is young but he has not seen a Doctor in years due to lack of medical insurance.

Two Parents. I come from a very small family. My mom and dad each were married once before they were wedded. Just my mom, my dad, and I. We were a family. All born seven seas across, in India. That’s all there was.

Student’s misconception is that Western families and families from Third World countries have the same roles of their family members.

The study I have chosen to summarize is called Children’s Expressions of Positive Emotion Are Sustained by Smiling, Touching, and Playing With Parents and Siblings: A Naturalistic Observational Study of Family Life. It was written by Sunhye Bai, Rena L. Repetti, and Jacqueline B. Sperling. The purpose of the study is to study three family behaviors – mutual display of positive emotion, touch, and joint leisure-each of which surround a child’s unplanned expressions of positive emotions. It is very important to be able to express and maintain positive emotions. “Happiness, pride, joy, and other positive emotions signal and promote action, social connectedness, motivation, and cognitive flexibility” (Bai, Repetti, Sperling, 2015) Families influence and help mold the emotions and expressions during childhood. This may be done by joining each other in small moments of positive emotion (Bai, et al., 2015).

My parents are both from different countries, My mother was born in Mexico while my father was born in El Salvador. After coming to America both were enrolled by my grandparents too Lee High School. Both of my parents did not know english at all so they had to take ESL classes which filled most of their high school schedule. In those classes they interacted and formed a connection between each other, shortly after that they began dating and going out to different areas just to have a couple more minutes together. Their connection grew even greater which led my father to presenting my mother to his family. At the age of eighteen my mother was impregnated and decided to drop out of highschool; my father followed her idea and dropped out as well

A family health assessment is a significant instrument in conveying a health care plan for a family. This paper will discuss the nurse’s role in family assessment and how this task is performed. By the use of family focused open ended questions, 11 functional health patterns were covered. The health patterns were values and health perception, nutrition, sleep and rest, elimination, activities and exercise, cognitive, sensory-perception, self-perception, role relationship, sexuality, and coping. This principle is known as the Gordon’s functional health patterns. Family health assessment defines the assessment of actual and potential problems of individuals (Gordon, 1994). This assessment tool included 11 systematic principles for data collection of the family, and assists the nurses to develop a nursing diagnosis and appropriate interventions. Using Gordon’s functional health patterns, this paper will summarize the findings of each health pattern as well as the family based nursing diagnosis of each assessment. This paper will also discuss different health promotion strategies along with web-based resources, also including a system based theory guide in family assessment.