Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Learning Objectives
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A. Anthropology
views the family as the source
and carrier of culture
B. Social Psychology
sees families as small groups
with tasks to successfully
master
Families offer:
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survival
Procreation and looking after immature
children
Promoting maturation and successful
aging and loss
Providing enough empathetic
connection to encourage attention to
the above tasks
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Variables of interest in
understanding families:
Functional
collaboration
Gender expectations
Power
Responsibility
Warmth
Positive support
Cultural background and difference
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Family Coherence
Basic
Coherence
Organization
Communication
Values and Beliefs
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Coherence
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Coherence (cont.)
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of stress or change
Labeling of the challenge
Developing a shared approach to the
problem
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of Interpersonal Distance
Negotiation of roles and tasks
assignment
Emotional tone positive comments
vs. criticism
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of cultural integration
Negotiation of connection to
extended family
Negotiation of location and career
intensity
Negotiation of sexual behavior and
leisure activities
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Significant Components of
Parenting
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II.
III.
IV.
Nurturance
Structure
Affiliation
Attachment
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I. Nurturance requires
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B.
C.
Access to resources
Capacity to use them for the child
Own needs being met
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family
Divorcing
family/post-divorce
family
Blended family
Grandparent-or kinheaded family
Foster care family
Adoptive
family
Gay
and
lesbian parents
Unmarried
couple as
parents
Bicultural
family
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Economic
concerns
Need for social support
Relationship of children with
noncustodial parent
Balance among home, child rearing,
and work
Relationship with and support from
extended family
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Balance
Recognizing
strengths and
accomplishments
Accepting and grieving losses
Collaboration with noncustodial
parent
Added burden of health or mental
health concerns of parent and
children
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Negotiations
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adult
Parental decision to remarry
Determine step-parenting roles and
responsibilities
Facilitating relationship between
stepparents and children
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Facilitating
relationship between
stepchildren
Developing methods of dealing with
ex-spouse(s)
Potential for moving and relocating
Engaging stepparent in health and
mental health treatment for the
children
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Dealing
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Preparing
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Appreciating
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Ensuring
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Ensuring
adequate economic
resources for family life
Dealing with the childs reaction to
parental loss and relocation
Providing information to the children
about reasons for and duration of
foster care
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Dealing
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Developing
Building
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Appreciating
and responding to
childs experience of not
belonging to the adoptive family
throughout development
Responding to naturally occurring
adoptive parent-child conflicts and
disagreements
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Developing
methods of recognizing
the value of adoptive parents
decision to raise nonbiologic
children
Identifying and using ratifying and
supportive assistance from mental
health, educational, and social
systems, when necessary
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Assisting
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Reaching
agreement and
commitment to raise children
together
Recognizing strengths, successes,
and capacities of homosexual
parents
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a way to explain
parental lifestyle to children
Assisting children with an
explanation of their family for
peers, teachers, coaches, and
others
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to discriminatory or
misunderstanding comments by
family, community members, expartners, school personnel, health
or mental health providers, or
childrens peers
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Maintaining
commitment to the
relationship and to parenting
Determining parental roles in
providing support to the children and
setting limits
Recognizing and responding to areas
of tenuousness, ambivalence, and
insecurity in the parents relationship
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Facilitating
childrens relationship
with both parents
Recognizing childrens responses
to changes in the relationship
either toward greater permanence
or toward separation
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Assisting
Establishing
family culture
Appreciating individual parental
cultural differences, traditions, and
expectations
Recognizing childrens need for
self-definition and exploration of
both parents cultures
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Appreciating
and responding to
extended family concerns,
questions, and responses
Establishing a dialogue that
recognized the strengths,
possibilities, and uncertainties of
this bicultural synthesis for this
family
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Assisting
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