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Developing Healthful Family Relationships

Unit 3, Lesson

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National Health Standards 1.2, 1.8, 2.1, 5.7Slide2

Family Relationships

Family

Basic unit of society

Group of people to which we belong

Extended Family members

All members of a family in addition to immediate family members

Healthful family

Family that practices skills to promote loving, responsible relationshipsSlide3

Roles of parents and guardians

Teach children:

Self-respecting behavior

Healthful attitudes

Effective communication

Clear sense of value

Responsible decision makingSlide4

Conflict resolutionCoping skillsDelayed gratification

Expressing affection and integrating love and sexuality

Give and receive kindnessSlide5

Work ethicRespect for authoritySlide6

Teach by:Setting exampleHaving discussions

Expecting behaviors and skills to be practiced

Enforcing consequencesSlide7

Roles of grandparents

Reinforcing behaviors and skills taught by parents

Help raise grandchildrenSlide8

Roles of other family members

Practice behaviors and skills taught by parents

Help each other interact in loving and responsible waysSlide9

Family continuum

2 extremes of family life

Ideal and dysfunction

Dysfunctional Family

Ideal Family

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Meeks, Linda. Heit, Philip. Page, Randy. Health and Wellness. McGraw-Hill Glencoe. 2008. p. 135.Slide10

Dysfunctional FamilyDoes not promote loving, responsible relationshipsIdeal Family

Does promote loving, responsible relationshipsSlide11

Healthful Family Relationships

Learn self-respecting behavior

Treat self in a healthy, responsible way

Learn to value needs of others

Know difference between self-respect and self-centered ( fulfill personal needs with little regard for others)Slide12

Learn healthful attitudes toward sexualityPositive feelings and attitudes about body, sex role, and relationships

Learn healthful sex roles

Behavior, attitude, value, and beliefs appropriate for males and females on the basis of biological sexSlide13

Learn effective communication skillsPositive ways to share feelings, thoughts, and information with others

Learn a clear sense of value

Healthful standard or beliefSlide14

Learn to make responsible decisionsImitate, observe, evaluate, set guidelinesLearn to resolve conflicts

Listen and work to find a common solution

Learn effective coping skills

Skills to deal with life’s crisesSlide15

Learn to delay gratificationVoluntarily delaying the reward for the completion of a task or responsibility

Learn to express affection

Appropriate ways to express affection for loved onesSlide16

Learning a work ethicAttitude, discipline, motivation, and commitment towards tasks to be completed

Learn to respect authority

Respect laws and rules of authority figuresSlide17

Causes of Dysfunctional Families

Chemical dependence

Life depends on getting chemical over needs of other family members

Increases risk of violence, neglect, abuse

May be an inherited dependency

Co-dependent – lives without needed items to be sure addict gets what they “need”Slide18

Other addictionsAny compelling desire to use or engage in a behavior despite the consequences

Food, gambling, shopping, etc.

Perfectionism

Compelling need to be flawlessSlide19

Violence in the familyUse of physical force to injure, damage, or destroy oneself, others, or property

In a relationship when one member uses violence to control the other member, it is domestic violenceSlide20

Abuse in the familyHarmful maltreatment of another personChild abuse

Harmful maltreatment of a minor

Spouse abuse

Harmful maltreatment of a husband or wifeSlide21

Parent abuseHarmful treatment of a parent

Elder abuse

Harmful treatment of an aged family memberSlide22

4 kinds of abuse

Physical

Physical injury to victim

Emotional

Belittling, bad mouthing, withholding affection

Neglect

Failure to provide proper care and guidanceSlide23

Sexual abuseForced sexual contact – by physical force, manipulation, or threat of harmSlide24

Abandonment in a familyGive up or refuse responsibility for those whom they are legally bound to provide care

Mental disorders in a family

Behavioral or psychological syndrome or pattern of a family member that takes special attention of all family membersSlide25

Co-dependent Relationships

Have trouble with intimacy

Deep and meaningful kind of sharing between people

Obsessing about the needs of others and avoiding others

Enmeshment

Become so focused on the needs of another that own needs go unmetSlide26

Lack of interdependencyDepend on each other, yet have own identitySlide27

Improve Relationship

Intervention

Seek professional help outside the family

Therapy

Individual or group

Practice relating to one another in a safe environmentSlide28

Steps to Resolve Family Conflicts Responsibly

Remain calm

Set a positive tone

Define the conflict and take responsibility of own actions

Listen to needs and feelings of othersSlide29

List and evaluate possible solutionsAgree on a solution

CommunicateSlide30

Recovery programs

Group that support members as they change behaviors

AA – Alcoholics Anonymous – group for recovering addicts

Al-Anon – group for families who have an addict member

Alateen – group for teens who have addicted family members or friends