Family- leave out a lot of different gouprs as family
Ask them how they define family, who is in your family Text-people who are biological or psychologically related with historical emotional and economic bond perceive themselves as a family (Gladding) People who reside in a household
Different types of family
- A range of different family Can be more than one kind of family in an family The nuclear family Husband, wife, children Traditional, declining. Will be different from working with blended family Single parent family One parent family, might be biological or adopted parent who is responsible for the child Increasing Children might have feeling and questions with another parent. Another set of question Remarried-blended family When two ppl married and at least one was previously married and have a child. Increasing Very specific to: feelings of loyalty Dual career family Both marital partners are committed to their career Whether they have children or not Creates issue of work-family balance Issue of care giving How the couple negotiate the role Childless family Couple that do not have children Due to choose or just can’t (@青山南) Increasing in expanse Might create conflict Gay and lesbian family Might have children from another marriage The aging family Household that is headed by 65 or older. A role shift Multigenerational family Household has at least three generation living together The military family A family maybe both or one parent is in the mili and has duty Adjusting to parent constant leaving and coming back - Life cycle development Part of the role of family psychologiest Define development- predictable physical, mental and social changes over life that occurs in relationship to the environment Life cycle- individual event and family event that also happened - Health in family there is accountability within family and there is give and take in the context of good relationship - Character Commitment-loyalty, time, energy, faithful Appreciation- Willingness to spend time -together quantity vs. quality -builds ritual, routine, help identify as a family Religiosity- having a spiritual orientation Effective communication patterns- Abnility to deal with crisis in a positive manner Open to opinion Encouragement- help others to cope Clear roles- kids get to be kids Healthy structure- no triangulations, no intergenerational collision, and flexible