Nur 250 1st Edition Lecture 6Current LectureFamily TheoryDescribe FamiliesStimuli = Every family has functions • Types • Function • Cognitive support: Steer children in the right direction • Financial support • Sometimes children have to support older parents • Family roles• Rules • Genetics • Health risks • External factors• Communication • Family dinner • Culture• Parenting Style Roles of Parents - As described by theorist o Piaget  Let children play, let them learn in a safe environmento Erickson  Every stage of development, children will have conflict  Parents are interested in child’s success o Vygotsky  I am going to let children play but be a bystandard incase it’s too hard for them.o Bandura  Children will watch their parents behavior  Parents have to be role models because children only know what they see.o Bronfenbrenner Parenting Styles• Permissive : • Children get a lot of freedom• AUTHORITARIAN • Controlling • Life is black and white • No discussion with child• Indifferent • Parents are into themselves and their own events• They see themselves as more important than their own children.• This becomes a huge issue when they are indifferent toward their children because of drugs or alcohol. • Authoritative • Parents are more open to discussion • Rules can be negotiatedFactors that effect family equilibrium• CommunicationVerbal Uses words Non-verbalUses actions ParadoxicalBody language Expressions Role modelingTeaching language• Best practice? Clear and Direct Factors that effect family equilibrium• Rules-Explicit – very clear ImplicitChaos – no rules • Children need rulesPower of Siblings• How much power do they have on development?• Conflict • Lots of conflict • Favoritism • Parents play favorites • Gender identity• This is hard when the older sibling is the opposite gender because then the child is confused about how to dress, what toys to play with etc. • Role modeling • Can mold the child• Aging • Relationships with siblings change with age • Singletons • Only child • Is conflict between siblings a good thing?• Yes because it teaches children how to stand up for themselves, self control and how to grow bonds. Family Theory• Murray Bowen: Family Systems Theorytheory of human behavior that views the family as an emotional unit and uses systems thinking to describe the complex interactions in the unit. It is the nature of a family that its members are intensely connected emotionally-parents, sibs and multigenerational.• Hill’s Family Stress theory sets forward acute stressors (meaning sudden onset) which when accumulated could lead to family crises, including physical, emotional, or relational crises. Examples of such familycrises resulting from family stressors are episodes of domestic violence, substance abuse (relapses), illness from weakened immune systems, divorce, accidents, children being abused, or neglected, etc. • Family resilience theory the family resilience perspective is integrated with conceptual definitions from family stress theory using the Family Adjustment and Adaptation Response (FAAR) Model in an effort to clarify distinctions between family resiliency as capacity and family resilience as a process. • Winkelman Family theoryOutcomes for childrenWhat changes the family dynamics?changes- Transitions- Change in status- Red flags - Accidents - Divorce Protective factors: good and bad• Individual• Family and friends•