September 3, 2019

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

Family observation paper

3 pg-