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What is the purpose of family psychoeducation? - ANSWER: - Helps improve
knowledge base of any type of illness
- Provides information about recovery stages
- Empowers problem-solving skills within the family
What does family psychoeducation NOT do? - ANSWER: Does not advocate for
any vocational rehab
How does family meet the needs of society? - ANSWER: Helps mediate between
society expectations and personal needs of the individual client
How does the family meet the needs of its members? - ANSWER: Facilitates
ongoing development of the personality of each individual
Who is affected by a member of a family having issues/illness? - ANSWER: The
whole family
How can the advanced practice nurse positively impact the family when treating a
member of the family with an illness? - ANSWER: - Help promote healthy ways
- Identify other health issues other family members have
What are some major differences in gay and lesbian families? - ANSWER: -
Developmental stages can differ
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- No one uniform family structure
- Increase in stigma
What is the significant difference between the 5 types of family nursing practice? -
ANSWER: The conceptualization of the family
What are the three levels of prevention? - ANSWER: 1. Primary
2. Secondary
3. Tertiary
What is primary prevention? - ANSWER: Health promotion and disease
prevention
What is secondary prevention? - ANSWER: Early detection and treatment
What is tertiary prevention? - ANSWER: Managing chronic illness, rehabilitation
and convalescence
In what two specific areas does the American Nurses Association incorporate the
family as a client? - ANSWER: 1. Community health nursing
2. Pediatric nursing
Who believed that the family is the basic conditioning unit? - ANSWER: Dorothy
Orem
Who believed in clean air, environmental factors, and home health nursing? -
ANSWER: Florence Nightingale
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What is stress theory? - ANSWER: Emphasizes a family's response to/ how they
manage a crisis, including resources they possess and those that are available to
them, as well as their own perception of the crisis/situation
What is the developmental approach? - ANSWER: The family's progression
through different stages of tasks or issues through the lifecycle
What is the structural-functional approach? - ANSWER: A holistic,
comprehensive approach that incorporates not only the family, but their inner and
outer environments/universe
What is the family lifecycle career? - ANSWER: Successive areas of stages of
experiences of a family as a unit
What is a system? - ANSWER: A unit with distinct parts; a family
What is an open family system? - ANSWER: Involves more open boundaries and
greater energy use. Family differentiation does not occur if the system divides into
smaller units
What is system theory? - ANSWER: Discusses self-regulation and balance
What is synonymous with balance? - ANSWER: Homeostasis, steady state, and
equilibrium
What is a family system? - ANSWER: An open social system that is organized
and has a specific purpose.
It is not a dynamic system that has little area for change
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What is a closed family system? - ANSWER: Involves greater control and
structure. Rigid, stagnated, and view change as threatening. View outsiders as not
helpful or good.
What is a random family system? - ANSWER: Sets their own rules and schedules
What is ambivalent attachment? - ANSWER: Fear of abandonment, need constant
reassurance, constantly checking to see if their caregiver is around, and do not like
to be separated
What is disorganized attachment? - ANSWER: A lot of emotional trauma as a
child, lived in chronic fear, abused or severely neglected. Might end up dating
someone who is abusive or end up the abuser
What is the difference in working with a whole family verses just one patient? -
ANSWER: When working with the family you can do a full assessment, and your
evaluation and your treatment has a greater scope because it involves the whole
family. Your whole assessment, treatment plan and evaluation will be much
broarder
What are the principles of recovery? - ANSWER: Recovery:
- emerges from hope
- is person-driven
- occurs via many pathways
- is holistic
- is supported by peers and allies
- is supported through relationship and social networks
- is culturally based and influenced