Week 11 Unit 1 Mental Emotional and Social Health Objectives Describe activities in which families cooperate Explain how families can adjust to changes and challenges List ways in which healthy families communicate ID: 1047627
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1. Facing Family Challenges Week 11 Unit 1 Mental, Emotional, and Social Health
2. Objectives Describe activities in which families cooperate. Explain how families can adjust to changes and challenges. List ways in which healthy families communicate.
3. Vocabulary Adoption Foster child Separation Divorce Abuse Neglect
4. Family Challenges Family members face many challenges together. They have responsibilities at home, at school, and at work. They may also have to cope with changes.There may be a new family member, an illness, separation, or a divorce. When family members meet these challenges with caring and respect, they can help each other’s mental and emotional health.
5. Family Balancing Act Many families have to balance the demands of jobs, school, and home. It takes organization to meet these demands. The family needs to plan who will do what. Parents/Guardians may work to earn and income. At home they may cook, clean, and take care of the needs of other family members.
6. Children Can HelpChildren help family, too. They do chores around the house to help their parents or guardians. This gets work done sooner so families can have more leisure time together. It also helps children learn skills they will need when they grow up and have homes of their own.
7. What Chores Do you have and why?
8. Responsibility As children grow, they take on more responsibility. Being responsible means that they do their chores as well as they can. They make sure they finish the chores they are asked to do. Their parents or guardians know they can trust their children to do their part to keep the family working well.
9. Growth and Change Families grow and change over time. Sometimes these changes are difficult. Family members can work together to ace the challenges they cause.
10. New Family Members A child might be born or adopted. Through adoption parents take a child of other parents into their family. Some families foster children. A foster child is a child who lives in a family without being related by birth or adopted.
11. I was adopted
12. New Family Members
13. Illness What happens if a family member becomes ill and needs care? Other family members can cooperate to help the person. They can work together to handle the chores the ill family member used to do.They can love and support each other through difficult times.
14. DeathIt doesn’t matter who you are, we all at some time or another will experience losing a loved one. Family members can support one another as they grieve and move forward adjusting to life with the loved one no longer being in their life.
15. Separation Usually parents can solve problems in their marriage. Everyone has problems, nothing is perfect no matter how much families love each other. If they cannot solve their problems or come to a resolution, they may decide to separate. A separation occurs when a couple is still married but the husband and wife are living apart. Sometimes they can solve their problems, and they decide to live together again.
16. Divorce Sometimes parents can’t solve their problems. A divorce is a legal end to a marriage. Divorce can make children feel very sad enough though they are not at fault or the one to blame. Talking helps children and their parents deal with the changes.
17. Abuse People should feel safe in their families. Unfortunately, this isn’t always true. A family member may abuse or neglect other family members. To abuse someone is to treat him or her roughly or harshly. Yelling or hitting family members is a kind of abuse.
18. NeglectNeglect is the lack of attention or care. Not giving a child the food, shelter or health care that he or she needs is neglect. Family members may be injured by the abuse or neglect. They may feel afraid, sad, and lonely. They be scared to tell anyone about the abuse or neglect. Their physical, mental, and emotional health may suffer.
19. Why do people harm family members?Sometimes abuse and neglect are caused by drug or alcohol abuse. Other times, it happens when family members feel stressed and do not know how to express it in healthful ways.
20. Getting Help A family member in which abuse or neglect exists needs help right away. Families may also need help to adjust to changes. If you need help dealing with a family change, first talk to your parents, guardian, or another responsible adult. There are also resources in many communities to help families adjust to change and challenges. School counselors, religious leaders, doctors, and social workers have a special training to help families manage hard times.
21. Family Ties In a healthy family, family members feel a strong bond with one another. They can strengthen this bond by showing caring and respect for each other. They use words and actions to show how much they care. They know it is important to express their feelings daily.
22. Make time for each other Family members make time to talk to each other. They share their thoughts and their feelings. They care about what other family members have to say.
23. Show respectFamily members talk in ways that are open, honest, and positive. They don’t put each other down. For example, they admit their mistake and apologize for them.
24. Consider each other’s feelings Family members consider each other’s feelings when they make a decision. Once parents and guardians make a decision, everyone honors the decision. What does honor the decision mean?
25. Share tasks Family members share household duties. When everyone helps, work is done faster. This leaves more time for the family members to do fun things together. What things are fun in your family?Quality time
26. Resolving Conflict in Families All families have conflict and conflict can be resolved in healthful ways. They listen to each other. They cooperate to work things out. They apologize for problems they may have caused. They resolve conflict in ways that agree with family guidelines. Family members may not always communicate in ways they know they should. Sometimes disagreements take time to resolve. Even during rough times family members still show care and respect for one another and remain loyal.
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