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...... ) There are many types of two-way communication including family/teacher conferences, home visits, ............ , phone calls, e-mail exchanges, family luncheons, and family events.<br/>b) Daily interaction can be  ............  through visiting with families as they pick up and drop off children,  ............  books, and two-way journals.<br/>c) There are many ways to  ............ , displaying project notebooks or documentation, and writing a brief list of what children did that  ............ : Making sure the bulletin board is useful to families; determining the purpose of the bulletin board;  ............ ; making certain the bulletin board is attractive and non-cluttered with short, easy to read, large  ............  interactive elements on the bulletin board; and keeping the bulletin board current. ......

...... Interaction and communication with families benefits children  ......

...... Interaction and communication with families becomes more  ............  with parents of older and younger ages.<br/>◦ true<br/> ......

...... Interaction and communication with families benefits early  ............  and learning professionals in the following ways  ............ <br/>◦ communication with families improves your relationships with  ............  in the classroom gives you less time to work with children.<br/>◦ involved adults have a greater  ............  for your efforts.<br/>◦ interaction with adults can leave you feeling more satisfied  ............  your work.<br/>◦ involved families tend to speak positively about the challenges of  ......

......  for an older adult at home can be difficult and time consuming as well as physically, emotionally, ............  and financially burdensome. Ongoing, accumulated  ............  where to go in the community for assistance with caring can bring significant relief and, as a  ............ , reduce violence. Focusing on legal consequences and asking abusers to come forward may place families  ............   4 Rationale: When people feel confident to deal with stress and the situation, their behavior is task- ............ . This young mother lacks the confidence to deal with a new experience. She is unprepared to accept a  ............  role as a mother and has little emotional support from her own parent.  ............  diagnosis of Anxiety related to lack of knowledge and inexperience does not capture the obstacles to  ............  no data to support a diagnosis of Impaired Social Interaction, Ineffective Family Coping, or Ongoing  ............  Communication......

......  1- The circumplex model of family interaction seeks to describe the dynamics of functional and  ............  families based upon the dimensions of adaptability,  ............ , and communication. It uses the dimensions of  ............ , cohesion, and communication to explain how families face and  ............  rigid, refers to the family's ability to modify and respond to changes in its own power structure and  ............ . Less tradition-bound families are better able to adapt to new circumstances. < ............ >* Cohesion refers to emotional bonding and feelings of togetherness the family experiences.  ............  from one another. Family systems are dynamic, so families usually move back and forth along the continuum  ............  disengaged to enmeshed. <br>* Communication, the most critical element in the circumplex  ............ , determines how families manage cohesiveness and adaptability.  ............  keeps families operating as a system. The nature of  ............  the development of family members' interpersonal communication skills. <br>- The dynamics of dysfunctional  ............ : <br>* Dysfunctional families are unable to adapt to changing circumstances.  ............  levels of cohesion. As circumstances change, families need to adapt levels of cohesion. <br># For  ............ , a family with young children may need both high levels of  ............  and adaptability. Families with adolescents may need  ............  gradually allow more independence and reduce family cohesion. Older couples may require  ............  cohesion, but high levels of structure and predictability. <br>* Dysfunctional families tend  ............  have poor communication skills, emphasizing self-oriented perspectives.  ............  tend to listen poorly, blame others, and criticize each other. <br>- The dynamics of  ............  families: <br>* Functional families have effective  ............  is lost, or during other stressful situations, communication allows the family to confront and manage the  ............  it faces. <br>* Effective communication skills play an important role in helping families  ............  solving, conflict management skills, empathy, and being supportive.<br/><br/>Answer 2- Voluntary  ............  relationships, often meeting a void or deficit with an actual family member. For example, when  ............ >* Extended family voluntary kin are relationships with extended family members that are closer than  ......

......  time affects children and their ___.    a.   families  b.    ............  four types of childrens websites are information, communication, interaction, and ____.    a.   publication   ......

......  most helpful communication strategies are two-way, facilitating interaction  ............  teachers and families.    a. True  b. False  Indicate  ......

......  factors help families make the most healthful adjustment possible to a  ............  upheaval, including fear, anger, denial, and frustration  C. Having developed effective  ............ -solving and coping behaviors  D. Never having suffered such  ............   B. Engaging in therapy based on theories of communication and symbolic interaction  C. Maximizing the  ............  and well-being of all individuals within a family  D. ......

......  working with clients and families under severe or chronic  ............ , the nurse should    a. avoid interaction with the individuals until the stress level is  ............   b. provide communication via written form only  c. speak in simple terms  ............  to take to decrease their anxiety before any interaction with them  Question 2  The nurse is caring for a  ............  is the most effective way for the nurse to work with an interpreter?    a. Avoid use of pictures or  ............  inter-preter.  c. Use various interpreters for interactions with the patient to allow him to become familiar  ......

......  of the following do both occupational and physical therapists do?    a. Refer families to  ............  sources for assistance  b. Help families order adaptive or prosthetic equipment  c.  ............  with physical education programs  d. Instruct  ............  disability significantly affecting verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction,  ............  disability  c. Emotional disturbance  d. Speech and language  ......

......  allows the client to see how others have coped with similar problems.  b. Because it involves group  ............  for people experiencing problems like loneliness and shyness.  c. Those in group therapy have the  ............  2  Which type of therapy focuses on helping families focus on changing disruptive patterns of  ............  and improving the ways in which members relate to  ......

......  student observes as an adult brother and sister lash out at the nurse caring for their  ............  at home but is dependent on the children for care and is obviously neglected.    The nurse has  ............  father's case. How does the nurse explain this interaction?    A.  Don't worry; they will calm down  ............ .  B.  Families often get emotional in these situations.  C.   ............  guidance to a mother of a toddler. Using communication theory, which information is the most appropriate? ............  C.  There is no need to see if a toddler understands.  D.  You shouldn't yell at such a young child. ......

......  interaction involves three main concepts, according to your  ............  orientation?    A. speech patterns associated with gender  B. automatic, unlearned communication  ............ .  C. the degree to which families encourage open exchange of ideas  D. none of  ......

......  which of the following area(s) are children with Asperger's disorder most likely to show   ............ ?    a. Communication  b. Social interaction  c. Intelligence  d. a  ............  b  e. a, b, and c  Question 2  According to family systems  ............ ?    a. Some children who grow up in abusive families continue to abuse themselves  through the  ............  of an eating disorder.  b. Some children and adolescents develop severe conditions such as  ............  and  bulimia in order to deflect attention from  ............  major issues  that threaten the family's unity and stability.  c. Some children who struggle with  ............  own identity within their family develop an  eating disorder in  ............  an eating disorder because they grow up in families that  place undue emphasis on the maintenance of  ............  appearances at the expense of  genuine and healthy communication about personal feelings,  ............ , and  preferences.  e. b and  ......

......  Satir-oriented therapist working in a session with a client said the following: As I listen to you  ............  what happened to you during that argument with your sister, I am getting a sense that you were  ............  right? What is the therapist attempting to do with the client?    A) Understand the ingredients of  ............  interaction   B) Facilitate emotional expression   C)  ............  the family rule   D) Coaching communication  Question 2  The ingredients of an interaction  ............  detail the internal communication process of clients and can be used to teach  ............  about internal and relational processes. This intervention can be  ............  with which type of clients?    A) Individuals   B)  ............    C) Families   D) All of these are  ......

......  to Question 1  One of these factors is to help families build a close bond with their children. Teachers  ............  model responsive care and help families to better understand their children' ............  can provide knowledge of effective parenting and offer strategies for through workshops,  ............ , and support groups. Early childhood education  ............  resilient by helping them to recognize stress and offering coping skills through many forms of  ............ . Teachers can also help families to forge social connections with other families  ............  her own cultural background, attitudes, beliefs, and guidelines for behavior. This will help to bring  ............  any barriers and to understand any personal bias. The teacher  ............  then focus on personal interaction, understanding family actions, and integrating  ......

......  of these is NOT a recommended component of a communication log?    a. Dates of suspension or other  ............  action.  b. Records of meetings and their outcomes.  c. Samples of the child's  ............  and at-home work.  d. Dates you sent or received  ............  to foster better home-school partnerships with Mexican-American families?    a. Determine  ............ ' language of comfort for communications and use it.  b. Assume that the family has  ............  speaking, reading, and writing in  English.  c. Do not assume that  ............  of them.  d. Consider the family's acculturation and how that may account for their goals  and  ......

......  is not a typical characteristic of families of children with depression?    a. less warmth   ............ . less support  c. poor communication  d. underinvolvement  Question 2  The diathesis- ............  of stressful life events  b. dependent upon the interaction between personal vulnerability and life stress   ......

......  in nursing care of any client. Impaired Social Interaction, Disturbed Thought Processes, and Impaired Verbal  ............  represent accurate and important nursing diagnoses, but client safety is  ............  care.  Answer to Question 2  4 Rationale: Families in which one mate is severely dysfunctional are  ............  skewed families. The other mate, who is usually aware of the  ......

......  to Question 1  Berman and Visher and Visher offered the following  ............  to parents in blended families for increasing the chances of positive  ............  between adults and children. 1. Maintain a courteous relationship  ............  when former spouses continue to insult each other and when the children are used as weapons by angry  ............  spouses to hurt each other.  2. Understand the emotions of children. Although the newlyweds  ............  their relationship, they need to be perceptive and responsive to the fears, concerns, and  ............  relationships to develop between stepparents and stepchildren. Stepparents need to be aware that  ............  emotional ties to their absent biological parent and that the stepchildren may resent the breakup of  ............  for the stepparent so that he or she will leave, with the hope that the biological parents will then  ............ . Stepparents need to be perceptive and understanding of such feelings and patiently  ............  concerns. Stepparents should take time in bonding with their stepchildren.  4. New rituals, traditions,  ............  doing things need to be developed that seem right and enjoyable for all members of the blended family.  ............  structured so that the children spend time alone with the biological parent, with the stepparent, with  ............ , and with the absent parent or parents. In addition,  ............  new spouses need to spend some time alone with each other. New rituals should be developed for  ............ , birthdays, and other special days.   5. Seek social support.  ............  in blended families should seek to share their concerns, feelings,  ............ , experiences, coping strategies, and triumphs with other stepparents and stepchildren.  ............  to view their own situations more realistically and to learn from the experiences of others.  6.  ............ . Children need to have their limits defined and consistently upheld. One of the difficulties is  ............  children are faced with a new stepparent attempting to gain control when  ............  have not as yet enjoyed many supportive and positive experiences with their new stepparent.  ............  for this new stepparent to provide nurturance and positive feedback to stepchildren in addition to  ............  rules and maintaining control.  Answer to Question 2   ............  be shattered by the concern about overpopulation and by the high cost of raising children; the average  ............  be 245,000. The expenses are for food, shelter, and other necessities.    Postponement of Parenthood  ............  are now making it possible for women in their 50s and even their 60s to give birth. As a result,  ............  in their time commitments between their children and their careers. In our society, most couples now  ............  until later in life provides substantial activity and meaning in later adulthood.    Professional  ............  will develop a system of professional, trained, and licensed parents to whom a number of natural  ............  be permitted frequent visits, telephone contacts, and time to care for the children whenever they  ............ -time professional parents in the form of nannies and daycare center workers. In our society, there is  ............  terminate their parental rights.    Serial and Contract Marriages: With the high rates of  ............  and remarriage, some sociologists have pointed out  ............  nature may help reduce some of the embarrassment and pain still associated with divorce and perhaps  ............  in nature, divorce may become even more frequent and result in an expansion of related social services. ............  people. They live together on a day-by-day basis and share expenses. Closely related-and perhaps more  ............  in which the two maintain separate addresses and domiciles but for several days a month actually  ............  being advocated by some religious philosophers, and many states no longer define cohabitation as  ............  responsibilities, shared domestic tasks, and expansion and growth through openness. In an open  ............  free to have extramarital relationships or sex without betraying one another. Such a marriage is  ............  on communication, trust, and respect, and it is expected that one  ............  increasingly report that couples have serious interaction difficulties because one spouse has a traditional  ............  insurance against isolation. In the 1960s and 1970s, communes of young people flourished. In  ............  later 1970s and in the 1980s, most communes disbanded. The goals,  ............  communes (which have many of the characteristics and obligations of group marriages) are being  ............ . They may provide companionship, new meaning, and interest to the participants' lives, as well as  ............  arrangement in which older adults with reduced functioning capacities can be of mutual  ............  to one another. Older adults can thereby band together, pool resources, hire nursing or  ............  help if needed, and feel that life begins at 60. In nursing homes,  ............  communities, group homes for older persons, and assisted-living residences, some of the older  ............  citizens now approve of same-sex marriages. In a landmark decision in June of 2015 the U.S. Supreme  ............  decision means that all 50 states must perform and recognize gay marriage.    Transracial Adoptions:  ............  and Native American children have been adopted by  ............  been accepted by relatives, friends, neighbors, and the general community following placement. The  ............ : The term comarital sex refers to mate swapping and other organized extramarital relations in which  ............  extramarital affair, which is usually clandestine, with the straying spouse trying to hide  ............ : Although in many people's minds marriage and parenthood go together, single parenthood is  ............ , an unmarried pregnant woman can refuse to marry and yet keep her child after it is born. Some  ............  in obtaining custody of their children.  Blended Families: Many terms have been used to describe two  ............  by the marriage of one parent to another: stepfamilies, blended families, reconstituted families, and  ............  families......

......  may not be blood related. Strong emotional ties and durability of membership characterize family  ............  function refers to the roles people take in their families. Family process describes the communication that  ............  place within the family. An ecomap is essentially a  ............  the shared relationships between family members and the external environment. Beginning with an  ............  the diagram extends to include significant social and community-based systems with which they have a  ............ . These data identify at a glance the family's interaction with environmental supports and its use of  ............  available through friends and community systems.  Answer to Question 2  ANS: B  ............  assume reciprocal family roles, develop automatic communication patterns, and react to each other in predictable,  ............  proposed a family life stage framework for understanding issues that normal families experience based  ............  family development through the life span, each with its own set of tasks. Duvall's model describes  ............ . Developmental tasks represent the challenges and growth responsibilities each family experiences  ............ 's Resiliency Model of Family Stress, Adjustment, and Adaptation is considered the most extensively  ............  model of family coping with traumatic and chronic illness. In this model, A ( ............  event) interacts with B (resources) and with C (family's perception of  ............  emphasize the structure (subsystems, hierarchies, and boundaries) of the family unit as the basis for  ............  refers to how the family is constructed legally and emotionally. The concept of hierarchy describes  ............  families organize themselves into various smaller units,  ......

......  belief that sibling positions shape relationships and influence a person's expression of behavioral  ............ . Each sibling position has its own strengths and weaknesses. This concept helps explain why  ............  assume reciprocal family roles, develop automatic communication patterns, and react to each other in predictable,  ............  particularly when family anxiety is high. Medalie and Cole-Kelly describe the course of chronic illness  ............  being a series of crises with relatively stable times in between McCubbin &  ............ 's Resiliency Model of Family Stress, Adjustment, and Adaptation is considered the most extensively  ............  model of family coping with traumatic and chronic illness. In this model, A ( ............  event) interacts with B (resources) and with C (family's perception of  ............  is a nursing intervention that nurses can use with their client families to identify family  ............  members sort out their personal fears, concerns, and challenges in health care situations; and provide  ............  questions focus on family interrelationships and the impact a serious health alteration has on  ............  family members and the equilibrium of the family system. The systems  ............  the family system. Boundaries draw a line in the sand by identifying what belongs within the family  ............  and what is external to it. They define the level of  ............  by, for example, setting legitimate limits with children and balancing individual needs with the  ............ . Boundaries regulate the flow of information into and out of the family. Permeable boundaries welcome  ............  with others and allow information to flow freely.  ............  with clear, permeable boundaries are better able to  ............  the demands of the illness with other family needs and can  ............  more effectively with care providers. Diffuse boundaries lead to family  ............ , while rigid boundaries are operative in families with little interaction between members and  ............ . Rigid boundaries restrict flow of information. Interaction with outsiders is discouraged, or heavily  ............ . Diffuse boundaries are found in enmeshed families. Morphostasis refers to how the family is able to  ............  and grow over time in response to challenges. ......

......  a person's capacity to define himself or herself within the family system as an individual having  ............  needs and wants. It requires making I statements based on  ............  own needs. Emotional cutoff refers to a person's withdrawal from other family members as a means of  ............  cutoff persist. Rigid boundaries are operative in families with little interaction between members and  ............ . Rigid boundaries restrict flow of information. Interaction with outsiders is discouraged, or heavily  ............  to contain or stabilize the anxiety, it can expand into a series of interlocking triangles, for  ............  the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, with each part reciprocally influencing its function.  ............  whole. Feedback loops describe the patterns of interaction that facilitate movement toward morphogenesis, or  ............  transmission of behavioral patterns, roles, and communication response styles from generation to  ............  marriages, child rearing, choice of occupation, and emotional responses across generations, without  ......

......  is required nightly for complete system checks and backup.  Answer to Question 2  4  Feedback 1  ............  among family members and in a health-care system can influence health and  ............ . 2 Therapeutic communication is a basis for family-focused care. 3 Family  ............  nursing care facilitates family communication that supports health 4 A nurse must expect to  ............  an interaction with a family that is experiencing distress and  ............  during times of family health concerns. Families need nurses to initiate a partnership and  ......

......   D  Answer to Question 2  In modern society most families are spread across the whole nation, or world,  ............  considerably the opportunity to interact and maintain closeness. The problem and pattern is  ............  same for friends as for family. Maintaining ties with family and friends is a constant challenge to  ............  and family members. In agrarian culture, family  ............  often lived in close proximity, and visited each other in social events, such as  ............  dinners, parties, church and school activities, and sharing working parties.  ............  newlyweds often literally moved into and shared the home of a parent, giving ample (and  ............  the generations to maintain closeness. Hampton and Wellman examine the internet as one means of  ............  contact and interaction with distant family and friends, and  ............  ways that people use computer-mediated communication. They found that the internet was less important  ............  useful for communication and maintaining contact with friends and family  ............  lived relatively close by (within some 25-40 miles), but was more used and useful  ............  communicating with friends and relatives who lived greater distances. ............  forms for interacting -- email, sharing pictures, and information, documents, etc. Friends and family  ............  mechanism for people to maintain contact and closeness. ......

......  the infinite number of problems that may occur in families: divorce, alcohol or drug abuse, unwanted  ............  relative, involvement of a child in delinquent and criminal activities, illness of a member who  ............  dysfunctions of one or more members, infidelity, and infertility  When problems arise in a family,  ............  services are often needed. The types and forms of services that social workers provide to  ............  families are extremely varied. They can be grouped into  ............  major categories: in-home services and out-of-home services.  In-home services are  ............ . Although not all are offered literally within the home itself, they are specifically designed  ............  help families stay together. They include financial aid;  ............  children or frail older adults from abuse and neglect); family preservation services (intensive  ............  intervention within the home setting where children are so  ............  home); homemaker services (for the same purpose); and family life education (classes, often offered at  ............  topics as child development, parenting skills, communication issues, and so on). Obviously, not all of these  ............  workers, but workers must know where to find them and how to help the family obtain them when needed.   ............ -of-home services, on the other hand, are those services that must be operationalized  ............  the blame, the larger system (social environment, and the level of support it provides to troubled  ............  (for example, residential treatment centers), and the judicial system (which provides a different  ............ , for family members who have run into difficulty with the law). These services require the social  ............ , educator, advocate, case manager, mediator, and so on).  Answer to Question 2   Sensitivity  ............ : Encounter groups, T (training) groups, and sensitivity training refer to group experiences  ............  explore personal or emotional problems in depth and then develop a strategy to resolve them. In  ............  groups seek to increase each member's personal and interpersonal awareness and then develop more  ............  interaction patterns. Sensitivity groups generally do not  ............ , feelings of depression, sexual dysfunctions, and so on). The philosophy behind sensitivity groups  ............  that with increased personal and interpersonal awareness,  ............  will be better able to avoid, cope with, and/or handle specific personal problems that  ............  professional counselors to be more perceptive and effective in interpersonal interactions with  ............  and with other professionals, to train people in  ............  positions to be more effective in their business interactions, to help clients with overt relationship  ............  become more aware of how they affect others and to develop more effective interaction patterns,  ............  train interested citizens in becoming more aware and effective in their interactions.  Although  ............ , marathon, and sensitivity groups are popular and have received  ............ . In some cases, inadequately trained and incompetent individuals have become self- ............  leaders and have enticed people to join through sensational  ............ . If mishandled, sensitivity groups can intensify personal  ............  of encounter groups as a form of psychotherapy and discourage people with serious personal problems  ......

......  all family members. Power conflicts are expected, and flexibility, mutual support, and open  ............ . Some obstacles to the role adjustments and family problem solving include disruption of  ............  lifestyles and interaction patterns, complexity in the formation  ............  new ones, and lack of social supports. Most children from  ............  families want to live in a two-parent home. There should  ............  continued contact with grandparents.  Answer to Question 2  ANS: D  ............  can help parents establish realistic and concrete rules. The clearer the limits that are  ............  and the more consistently they are enforced, the less  ............  punishment weakens its intent. Children want and need limits. Unrestricted freedom is a threat to  ............  security and safety. Reasoning involves explaining why an act  ............  wrong and is usually appropriate for older children,  ......

......  family functions. 2. Incorrect. Family dynamicsinteraction s and communications among family mem-bersevolve  ............  time. 3. Correct. Family dynamics is concerned with communication and interaction among fam-ily  ............ . 4. Incorrect. Family dynamicscommunicati on and interaction among family membersis important in  ............  types of families......

......  Question 1  ANS: C Calm, brief, directive verbal interaction can help the patient gain control of the  ............  feelings and impulses related to anxiety. Patients  ............  be considered if providing calm, brief, directive communication is ineffective. Although the patient is  ............  acknowledge that the behavior is not constructive and that they do not really like it. Patients state  ............  are unable to change the behavior. Patients with agoraphobia are not optimistic about change. Most  ......
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