FAMILY HEALTH CARE The family is the basic unit of care in community health nursing. It is an important social structure needed for reproduction and socialization. A family refers to a number of persons joined together by bonds of marriage‚ blood or adoption (Burgess‚ 1963). Freeman (1992) defined family as two or more persons who are joined together by bonds sharing emotional closeness and who identify themselves as being part of the family. REASONS FOR HAVING THE FAMILY AS THE UNIT
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The Bowen family systems theory is the basic idea that the family acts as one unit. Just as all the parts of our body work together to keep us in order and balanced‚ so does the family. Each member of the family acts as an integral part of the system and when one part of the family is out of balance‚ the whole family is. When this happens the family will have to make changes or adjustments to try and regain the balance of the family (The Bowen Center for the Study of the Family). The inventory of
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this policy is linked to ecological family systems theory. In this theory families do not operate alone‚ the functions in which families perform are in alliance with other institutions such as formation and dissolution‚ economic systems (insurance)‚ educational systems‚ healthcare systems‚ legal systems‚ support systems‚ mediating systems and media. The theorist that developed this theory was Urie Bronfenbrenner‚ the theory is also known as human ecology theory. He believed that a person’s environment
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ntegrating the Family Theory into practice is looking at the family dynamics‚ understanding the patient as a part of the family unit‚ and the family’s ability to comprehend the healthcare system (Hadock‚ n.d). There are many components of the family that can affect the patients’ health. By involving the family in care both the patient and family can see improved patient outcomes (Gruenewald‚ Gabriel‚ Rizzo‚ & Luhrs‚ 2017). Some of these components include communication‚ roles in the family‚ and coping
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studied at family level in recent decades‚ the theory and research in family resilience is not incorporated in the literature on child resistance at individual level (Masten & Monn‚ 2015). This is surprising‚ as the individual and family resilience has many common roots‚ including the general systems theory (von Bertalanffy‚ as referred to Masten & Cichetti‚ 2016). This can occur‚ because until now the family resilience more focused on family therapy and practice as directly related to family systems
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the ways in which laws and social policies affect family life Currently‚ in the UK‚ the family is a fairly unregulated sphere of life‚ compared with different societies such as China. Laws and social policies in Britain today tend to encourage or discourage certain types of families‚ rather than actively enforcing them like China’s one child policy. Government agencies and institutions only seem to take an active role on policing areas of family life when things are perceived to have gone wrong
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IMPORTANCE OF FAMILY The word family has multiple meanings in the dictionary. It is ‘a social unit living together’ or ‘parents and their children‚ considered as a group‚ whether dwelling together or not’. In a broader term‚ relatives can also be added to this group. But it is much more than that. Family is the first learning place of an individual in this world. Starting from childhood till old age‚ he learns everything from his family. He sees his family members walking and starts trying that
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Family is where we all belong to and from where our identity comes from. A person is valued based on his family and upbringing. We all belong to a family and it is our family that keeps us together through thick and thin. Without having a family‚ no person is complete and the completeness comes with good family bonding. Now what is a family? By just saying that you live with your family does not hold any values to being a part of the family. Four or five persons living under one roof does not become
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of the family systems theory is to establish a better level of differentiation with your family of origin‚ which means you have a better level of resolved emotional issues with them. The Differentiation of Self Scale is an important concept in this theory. The two extremes of this scale are people with low levels of differentiation or people with high levels of differentiation. People who are less differentiated from their family of origin have their identities intertwined with their family‚ whereas
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ever thought about why we family has so many family reunions? We have to schedule and plan on which family reunion we are going to the next year and which one we are not going to. Well if our families sit back and research our family history‚ we will come to the conclusion that we are related in so many ways. We either related by marriage‚ by blood‚ or half blood. Being related by marriage is simple. You meet someone and start to like that person. They meet the family and start to interact with
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