Family structure and style

This learning activity aims for a full understanding and unbiased view of the family—not just its problems, but also its strengths, values, and goals.

Understanding family structure and style is essential to caring for a family in the community setting. Conducting a family interview and needs assessment gathers information to identify strengths, as well as potential barriers to health. This information ultimately helps develop family-centered strategies for support and guidance.

This is a family health assessment .

  1. Select a family, other than your own, and seek permission from the family to conduct an interview. Utilize the interview questions complied in your interview questionnaire to conduct a family-focused functional assessment.
  2. Document the responses as you conduct the interview. Do not put the family’s name, but utilize initials, the gender of each family member, and their age.

Your paper must include the following:

  • Describe the family structure. Include individuals and any relevant attributes defining the family composition, race/ethnicity, social class, spirituality, and environment.
  • Summarize the overall health behaviors of the family. Describe the current health of the family.
  • Based on your findings, describe at least two of the functional health pattern strengths noted in the findings.
  • Discuss three areas in which health problems or barriers to health were identified?
  • Your assignment must include an eco-map and a genogram – as shown in the required textbook.

Submission Instructions:

  • The paper is to be clear and concise and students will lose points for improper grammar, punctuation and misspelling.
  • The paper is to be 850-1000 words in length, excluding the title, abstract and references page.
  • Incorporate a minimum of 3 current (published within the last five years) scholarly journal articles or primary legal sources (statutes, court opinions) within your work. Journal articles and books should be referenced according to APA style
  • Your paper should be formatted per APA and references should be current (published within last five years) scholarly journal articles or primary legal sources (statutes, court opinions)

Requirements: as instructed

Answer preview

I interviewed Mr. John Smith and Mrs. Peng Ah-In Smith. Mr. Smith is a White Caucasian male, while Mrs. Smith is a lady of Asian descent. From the first point of meeting, one can glean that this family embodies the American society’s diversity as the husband and wife come from very different racial backgrounds. The Smiths live in a single-family dwelling with their three children, and this structure embodies the conventional nuclear family setup. Considering that they live in a decent home and their children go to private schools, one can deduce that the Smiths are in the middle class. The couple admits that Mrs. Ah-In Smith is the more spiritual of the two, and she attributes this to her highly conservative upbringing. They ensure that their children go to church and get a robust moral foundation.

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