Family Functioning By: Kaylynn Reed NOTE: To change images on this slide, select a picture and delete it. Then click the Insert Picture icon in the placeholder to insert your own image.

What is Family Functioning?... NOTE: To change images on this slide, select a picture and delete it. Then click the Insert Picture icon in the placeholder to insert your own image.

Family Functioning: 1. Socialization of children 2.Economic cooperation & division of labor 3.Care, supervision, monitoring, and interaction 4.Legitimizing sexual relations 5.Reproduction 6. Provision of status: Social - familial attributes (SES, location) Ascribed - birth order Achieved - based on individual's effort 7.Affection, emotional support & companionship

1.clearly identified hierarchy 2.well-defined parental roles 3.flexibility & adaptability - Can respond to situational & maturational crises 4.consistent, clear rules & expectations 5.consistent affection 6.consistent limit-setting 7.open communication, bi-directional 8.increased degree of support nurturance and acceptance of family members 8 Family Functions

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Relationships between couples and families Parents- Are the support group of a family if terms aren’t good for the parents or are not stable, then that goes on to the children and put a pressure on them. Couples need to have their lives together before they become parents so that the children grow up in a less stressful environment then a family with a lot of issues between the parents. Couples- two people who are together are constantly trying to function together to be together and make each other happy to be in the relationship. Being in a relationship takes strength, stability, emotion, and time. Without those characteristics the family may veer towards a shallow state.

Control- Parental control is conceptualized as the degree to which parents exert control and power over the child, as well as an indicator of the level of direct involvement in the activities of the child. It is defined in terms of the degree of supervision/monitoring of the child's activities, the quality, nature, consistency of discipline, and the parent's need to control the child. DEMANDINGNESS - The degree to which parents will insist upon age appropriate behavior from child. STRICTNESS - The degree to which parents will enforce their rules AND will resist child's attempts to emotionally coerce parents into not carrying out punishment for misbehavior. INTRUSIVENESS - The degree to which parents will interfere/control the child's activities & interpersonal relationships. RESTRICTIVENESS - The degree to which parents will limit both the range of activities in which the child can engage and the child's opportunities for independence (engaging in activities away from parents supervision). POWER ASSERTION - The degree to which parents will utilize the legitimate power function assigned to the parental role in order to control the child.

Responsibilities, Schedule, Privileges, and Finances-

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Child Development- Child development plays a role in family functioning because a child affects a family's way of control and function based on the life style and age of a child or children in the family. Young children require a lot of discipline and time to have them go down the path you prefer them to take for their life. More discipline is a way of functioning. Where as to older children they require guidance and reassurance.

Discipline- The practice of training people to obey rules or a code of behavior, using punishment to correct disobedience. We train our children to obey us and to obey others through discipline and we use repercussions if we aren’t listened to.

An unintended consequence occurring some time after an event or action, especially an unwelcome one. With repercussions children and adults learn to change and change is a part of the function of growing as a family. Repercussions -

Change- When a family changes for the better, they grow as a group and better their relationships for their futures. When a family changes in a bad way, people begin not to listen and they start to fall apart. There is also diversity…

Diversity- Between different countries and races these family functioning's are very different, but we all should strive for happiness and balance.

Happiness NOTE: To change images on this slide, select a picture and delete it. Then click the Insert Picture icon in the placeholder to insert your own image.