Friedman Family Assessment

Part one of the book introduced the family concept of private and public with an overview of the family dynamic and its history. The first chapter begins with its main key point of defining, what the author Cherlin’s terms, public and private family. He defines the public family as a one or two adult relationship which could be held by marriage, partnership, or shared parenthood that is responsible for the care of dependents, and the dependents themselves. Cherlin includes the elderly in the term of dependent. In my family’s case my household is a married two adult relationship with two children dependents, however my brother is divorced and living with my epileptic mother and her cohabitating boyfriend, who is the father of my youngest brother. He goes on to define the private family as two or

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.

1. Values, health perception: How healthy is your family? Do you always try to follow doctor's recommendations when given?

How is the family meeting affective, socialization, reproductive, economic and health care functions (See Chapters 14, 15 and 16 for more detail explanations of functions)?

The assessment used with Mr. and Mrs. Jacques would consist of the Marital Attitude, Relationship Belief Inventory, Inventory of Specific Relationship Standards, and Beck’s Depression Inventory (Wetchler et. al., 2015). Implement the family to take a culturagram assessment to help better understand their needs and start a plan that would treat the Jacques family. The one for Mr. Jacques, Mrs. Jacques, Valerie, and Samuel may include Family Beliefs Inventory. The Jacques family could also include assessment of an Interview Questionnaires for the 4 to 6 children.

Minister Binky Holt is married to her high school sweetheart John of 29 years and together they have 3 wonderful and amazing sons (John III 29, Kristian 28, and Joshua 25). Minister Binky is the founder of Two Become One-TBO Marriage Mentor Ministry, LLC, a ministry founded for the sole purpose of helping to strengthen and empower marriages to overcome everyday struggles through biblical teachings, shared life experiences, and common-sense knowledge and skills. She and husband, John, are mentors of Marriage Builders Ministries, Christian Life Center. Together, they lead a monthly “First 5 Years of Marriage” Community Group and biweekly couple’s Small Group at Christian Life Center.

I believed that John and my dad were lucky that their wives were friends. It seemed to me that fate decreed they would become the closest of friends. They belonged to the same church guild, spent time on the board of the local PTA, organized bake sales, rode their bikes together, rummaged through garage sales, and formed Poway’s Women Business Association.

The public health nurses are integral part of the nursing workforce, who are caring for the entire populations. They are involved in educating people about health issues, identifying health risk factors unique to specific communities, provide health-related interventions based on community needs, conducting health prevention activities such as immunizations and screenings, and advocating to improve health care access for underserved communities (Explore Health Careers, 2016). The public health nurses are involve in illness prevention, and health promotion by reaching

The next set of questions prepared for the family had to do with the responsibilities of the each member. There are many day-to-day tasks that are needed to be completed to keep the family functional and happy. Both Ivonne and Marvin are social workers for the city of East LA, and Ivonne has recently decided to go back to school to peruse a Master degree. The couple has to work 10 hour daily, keep food on the table, a roof over their head and feed there “children” aka Lady and Frijol. Socity has a general expectation of the women being the one the one to prepare dinner, doing the shopping, etc. And on the other hand the man is suppose to be the breadwinner and be

Most families are complicated but supportive. For example, a family could argue a lot, but still love one another. In Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” mama still supports her daughters even though, they’re not around much. Their issues are not unique because my family has its issues, too. The family in “Everyday Use” and my family both have similarities and differences regarding siblings, bonds, and mothers.

Every family functions in their own unique way, even if they attempt to model themselves after the social norms of what a family “should be”. Little Miss Sunshine gives insight into how individuals with their own variety of dysfunction manage to function within the family. The purpose of this paper is to analyze Little Miss Sunshine in the context of four different ways of communicating as explained in the textbook, Family Communication: Cohesion and Change. The following paragraphs, organized into sections by theme will explore the Hoover family’s system, the degree of adaptability and cohesion within the family, the productive or destructive ways they manage conflict, and their use of power or decision making processes. Each section will contain a brief review of each of the aforementioned topics that apply, concepts that exist within those topics that appeared in the movie, and examples taken from the movie.

BJC’s father lives roughly two hours from him, with the drive being that long, they don’t get to see each other as often as they would like, those times they get to see each other are mainly holidays. One of BJC’s main goals is to get over to see him dad more often but with the hectic life of his family and his job, that just isn’t possible right now. BJC’s mother died in 2008. With growing up so close to his brothers, having them not live close to him has taken an impact on his life. He supports the choices they have made in their lives to chase their dreams even if that means he doesn’t get to see them often. All three families have children around the same ages, so they feel for each other and their problems, allowing them to give advice and listen when needed. He strives to maintain a close relationship with his brothers even with them being so far away by staying in contact with them through phone calls and text messages, giving updates on their lives to each

One of Jeffrey’s frequent frustrations over the course of the four meetings was one particular couple that he provided spiritual counsel for, named Bob and Carol. Bob and Carol are an older couple, in their late 40s and early 50s, with two children who are both out of the house and in college. The couple has been coming to Jeffrey for five months, largely seeking spiritual guidance about their marriage, which they admit has been falling apart due to a number of factors, including a past infidelity on Bob’s part and a general feeling of hopelessness and fatigue cultivated over the last several years.

A community’s health is a reflection of the health experiences of its members (Kaakinen, Coehlo, Steele, Tabacco, & Harmon-Hanson, 2015). Family health nurses have a critical role in improving the health of the community by empowering families to lead a healthful life, as well as facilitating a family’s access to needed resources (Kaakinen et. al., 2015). The purpose of this paper is to discuss the varies roles of family health nurses in my community, as well as the assets their position provides our community. Huntington, the second largest city in the state, is a quaint community located in Cabell County, West Virginia along the banks of the Ohio River (COH, 2016). Huntington’s population of approximately 49,000 people relies on health care and education as its primary sources of revenue (COH, 2016).

Within interviewing the family, I wished to discover how this seemingly perfect family functioned. I wanted to know what they felt made them a family. What makes them untied? And how they show love for eachother? What traditions they had? I felt that a lot of strong ties and traditions got lost in