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NUR422 Exam #4 Study Guide Solutions
Tasks and Problems for a Single Young Adult - Ans:✔✔-Tasks: form an identity separate from parents,
establish intimate peer relationships, advance toward financial independence
Problems: difficulty separating from the previously interdependent relationship
Tasks and Problems for Family joined by union/marriage - Ans:✔✔-Tasks: establish a new identity as a
couple, realign relationships with extended family, make decisions about having children
Problems: partners remain enmeshed with family of origin, couple cuts themselves off from extended
family
Tasks and Problems for families with young children - Ans:✔✔-Tasks: meet responsibilities of
parenthood, share tasks of child-rearing, integrate roles of extended family
Problems: parents lack knowledge about normal childhood development and behavior
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Tasks and Problems: Families with adolescents - Ans:✔✔-*sandwich effect*
Tasks: provide adolescents with greater autonomy, refocus on midlife/career/aging parents
Problems: parents unable to relinquish control, parents cannot agree and support each other
Tasks and Problems for families with children leaving home - Ans:✔✔-Tasks: reestablish bond of marital
relationship, realign relationships, accept caretaking responsibilities for parents
Problems: feelings of loss and depression, inability to cope with realigned relationships, deterioration of
marital bond
Tasks and Problems for families later in life - Ans:✔✔-*more older adults are assuming responsibility for
grandchildren*
Tasks: explore new social roles related to retirement, accept decline in physiological functioning, cope
with death of loved ones, confront and prepare for one's own death
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Problems: dissatisfaction with the way their lives have gone, inability to find happiness in retirement,
inability to find emotional satisfaction in children or grandchildren, difficulty accepting deaths of loved
ones or in preparing for their own deaths
Stages in the family life cycle of divorce - Ans:✔✔-deciding to divorce
planning the breakup of the system
separation
divorce
Stages in the remarried family life cycle - Ans:✔✔-entering the new relationship
planning the new marriage and family
remarriage and reestablishment of family
Behaviors that interfere with communication in families - Ans:✔✔-making assumptions
belittling feelings
failing to listen
communicating indirectly
presenting double-bind messages
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Behaviors that interfere with self-concept reinforcement in families - Ans:✔✔-expressing denigrating
remarks
withholding supportive messages
taking over
Behaviors that interfere with realistic, flexible, and individualized family expectations - Ans:✔✔-ignoring
individuality
demanding proof of love
Behaviors that interfere with healthy handling of differences in families - Ans:✔✔-attacking
avoiding
surrendering
Behaviors that interfere with healthy family interactional patterns - Ans:✔✔-cause emotional discomfort
perpetuate or intensify problems
are in conflict with each other
Positive vs. dysfunctional family climates - Ans:✔✔-Positive: based on trust, expressed in openness, joy,
caring, valuing each individual, and feeling of security and well-being
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NUR422 Exam #4 Study Guide Solutions
Tasks and Problems for a Single Young Adult - Ans:✔✔-Tasks: form an identity separate from parents,
establish intimate peer relationships, advance toward financial independence
Problems: difficulty separating from the previously interdependent relationship
Tasks and Problems for Family joined by union/marriage - Ans:✔✔-Tasks: establish a new identity as a
couple, realign relationships with extended family, make decisions about having children
Problems: partners remain enmeshed with family of origin, couple cuts themselves off from extended
family
Tasks and Problems for families with young children - Ans:✔✔-Tasks: meet responsibilities of
parenthood, share tasks of child-rearing, integrate roles of extended family
Problems: parents lack knowledge about normal childhood development and behavior
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Tasks and Problems: Families with adolescents - Ans:✔✔-*sandwich effect*
Tasks: provide adolescents with greater autonomy, refocus on midlife/career/aging parents
Problems: parents unable to relinquish control, parents cannot agree and support each other
Tasks and Problems for families with children leaving home - Ans:✔✔-Tasks: reestablish bond of marital
relationship, realign relationships, accept caretaking responsibilities for parents
Problems: feelings of loss and depression, inability to cope with realigned relationships, deterioration of
marital bond
Tasks and Problems for families later in life - Ans:✔✔-*more older adults are assuming responsibility for
grandchildren*
Tasks: explore new social roles related to retirement, accept decline in physiological functioning, cope
with death of loved ones, confront and prepare for one's own death
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Problems: dissatisfaction with the way their lives have gone, inability to find happiness in retirement,
inability to find emotional satisfaction in children or grandchildren, difficulty accepting deaths of loved
ones or in preparing for their own deaths
Stages in the family life cycle of divorce - Ans:✔✔-deciding to divorce
planning the breakup of the system
separation
divorce
Stages in the remarried family life cycle - Ans:✔✔-entering the new relationship
planning the new marriage and family
remarriage and reestablishment of family
Behaviors that interfere with communication in families - Ans:✔✔-making assumptions
belittling feelings
failing to listen
communicating indirectly
presenting double-bind messages
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Behaviors that interfere with self-concept reinforcement in families - Ans:✔✔-expressing denigrating
remarks
withholding supportive messages
taking over
Behaviors that interfere with realistic, flexible, and individualized family expectations - Ans:✔✔-ignoring
individuality
demanding proof of love
Behaviors that interfere with healthy handling of differences in families - Ans:✔✔-attacking
avoiding
surrendering
Behaviors that interfere with healthy family interactional patterns - Ans:✔✔-cause emotional discomfort
perpetuate or intensify problems
are in conflict with each other
Positive vs. dysfunctional family climates - Ans:✔✔-Positive: based on trust, expressed in openness, joy,
caring, valuing each individual, and feeling of security and well-being
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