Title: Describe the family as a system.
Course: Family Relations (19259-18) > Section: Analyzing the Significance of the Family System

Description should include

- a definition of system
- characteristics of each family system
- ways that attitudes, characteristics, and behaviors are affected by the family system.

Process/Skill Questions:

Thinking

- Why is it important to view the family as a system, the parts of which are interrelated, interconnected, and interdependent?
- What happens to the family if a part of the system undergoes a significant change (e.g., through divorce, death, job loss, illness)?
- How do contextual factors affect families?

Communication

- What are examples of ways that technology affects families?
- How can technology improve or hinder family communication?

Leadership

- How might a family adjust if finances or services are reduced?
- What leadership skills contribute to meeting those challenges?
- How can issues such as being unhoused or family violence be resolved?

Management

- What factors in the economic system affect families?
- What might determine the family’s need for community resources?
- What might influence a family’s ability to refuse or accept community resources?