Author Question: A client tells the nurse that he has created a family with his wife and children where all are ... (Read 84 times)

TFauchery · **on:** Jul 22, 2018

A client tells the nurse that he has created a family with his wife and children where all are respected. An example of effective responsiveness in a functional family unit would include:

a. communication is ambiguous and indirect.
b. rules are flexible.
c. boundaries are blurred, yet rigid.
d. members are encouraged to express feelings.

Question 2

The nurse is reading about family development theory and realizes that Duvall's theory is limited because it assumed that:

a. each family unit has a developmental process with expected tasks to be achieved at each developmental stage.
b. the healthy family will have achieved specific developmental tasks.
c. the nuclear family is the standard by which all other families are assessed.
d. the way in which a family achieves tasks of development greatly influence the family's ability to handle subsequent developmental issues.