Friedman Family Assessement

• Include a brief description of the physical, cultural and cognitive processes, and social and emotional development at each stage.

2. Discuss how family systems are influential in child development processes and include challenges to meeting a child’s needs, such as conflicts and poor parenting practices.

“The purpose of this paper is to apply the Family Systems Stressor-Strengths Inventory (FS3I) to a family and present an analysis of the finding.” For the purpose of this paper the family will been known as the Hyppolite Family. The family discussed in this paper is considered a traditional nuclear family living in a single family home. Included is a Father Andrew Hyppolite (AH) age 38, a mother Katharine (KH), age 36, and four children Zoë , Timothy, Sarah, and Scott, whose ages are 9, 7, 5,3. Andrew and Katherine have been married for 10 years. The mother is a stay a home mom who performs household duties and children activities. The husband Andrew works outside the home at an Accounting Firm. Both parents have a

The Smith family is in the same situation as many other families that live in the United States. A young single mother is trying to raise two children by herself with no income. Lucky for them, there are several government funded programs that are there to help them to form a better life. However, there are certain requirements for several of the programs. The Smith family should meet most of those requirements. They have until the end of the month before all their resources are cut off.

The 10 dimensions of Family Stress are a way to describe a family stressor. Lipman-Blumen created a list of 10 dimensions that family stressors are based on. These ten categories are: internal vs external, pervasive vs bounded, precipitate onset vs gradual onset, intense vs mild, transitory vs chronic, random vs expected, natural generation vs artificial generation, scarcity vs surplus, perceived insolvable vs perceived solvable, and substantive context. Some of these factors may seem obvious and others may not. Some may have a direct influence on the stressor and others may not. But, each of these can lead to a crisis if not taken seriously. For all of these categories, I think it all depends on the crisis and each situation.

According to Stanhope and Lancaster (2008) “Each family is an unexplained mystery, unique in the ways it meets the needs of its members and society” (p. 550). Family nursing is a special field that involves the nurse and family working together to achieve progress for the family and its members in adjusting to transitions and responding to health and illness. The Friedman Family Assessment Model serves as a guide in family nursing to identify the developmental stage of the family, environmental data, family structure, composition, and functions as well as how the family manages stress and their coping mechanisms. From this data, three nursing diagnoses with interventions are developed.

Family Assessment The family chosen for this assignment are family friends who agreed to conduct the interview and discuss any health issues they had. Because some of the questions were fairly invasive into their private lives, no names are given. There are five members in the family, and they all participated in the interview. Questions are based on the eleven functional health patterns.

The story brings to the forefront on how parents need to anticipate the family needs and take proactive steps to ensure healthy family dynamics during any stressful or critical situation. A family that has functional dynamics has the ability to offer support, concern and love to each other when a chronic conflict or

1.1 Describe the expected pattern of children and young peoples development from birth to 19 years to include:-

The family is made up of five people: Claudia, the IP; Carolyn, mother; Laura, the sister; Don, the brother; and David, the father. The family is coming into therapy because there have been mounting concerns about Claudia and her behavior—acting out, staying out late, some fairly typical teenage stuff. For the purpose of this paper, I will be starting at the beginning where the family is first coming into therapy. I will first school that I will apply is Structural Family Therapy and the second school is Bowen Family Therapy.

What is the developmental stage (refer to the readings) of the family? Why do you think they are in this stage? (Give examples)

The author’s family is very similar to other two parent, child rearing families other than the decrease in socialization from living in a very rural community where there are no other children to socialize with. The family assimilates into the community well as the author is involved with teaching classes to the local first responders and the family is very close to the few neighbors that they have. The family manages daily living one day at a time by working as a team and dividing the household tasks between the author and her husband, for example if the author cooks the husband does the dishes and vice versa, this generally works out well however there is usually friendly arguments about who gets to cook. The roles have had to get a bit more flexible with the author now attending school and household tasks have moved down the priority list a notch. Marriage, parents, and lover relationships are all viewed as a team effort with lots of give and take and a strong emphasis on compromise. For birth control the author’s husband has a vasectomy. The family copes with stressful life events by communicating; one strength that the family utilizes well is incorporating

During this assessment, I interviewed a single-family home with a 32 year old mother, M.S, with a 4 year old daughter, M.S. II, from Costa Rica. The daughter was in pre-school and the mother had graduated high school and immediately worked with event planning. The family does not attend church, but practices under the Catholic traditions. I would place this family under the preschool stage of the family life cycle due to the oldest child is 4 years of age and the mother is adapting to her child’s needs in growth-producing ways. M.S and her daughter love spending time outdoors taking walks and visiting gardens. M.S. sews various items, including lunch boxes and aprons in her free time too.

B) Assess Leslie's parenting style and evaluate if its an effective one for their family situation

From the interview, Deb and Ron did not share if they had even attempted to address their schedule and the lack of family time they give the children. Challenges that may present itself within this case of Deb and Ron being a dual earner family, is time management, quality time for each other, as well as quality time for their children, Deb and Ron need to look at a way to achieve work and life balance. In identifying, the first possible key issue is time management it is something that stands out for Deb and Ron. If they apply family time management skills, they can improve their quality of family time. One key component in sharing quality time together is being clam and focused on family activities. Secondly, Ron and Deb may find it helpful to do family goal setting; in order for this to work, they have to both be willing to put in the time. However, before Ron and Deb can be successful at this they must make decisions about their priorities, such as what are their needs and the needs of different family members? For example, Charlie may, need more play time with dad, and one on one cuddle time with mom. Thirdly, they could use a family calendar; this tool will help with family scheduling. The next issues Ron and Deb will need to address are making sure they are giving their children quality time. This time is important in their social development stages; children are learning to form and value relationships with others. Intimate and caring relationships are