{"id":268,"date":"2019-08-27T19:01:19","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T19:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-canton-echd250\/?post_type=chapter&p=268"},"modified":"2019-08-27T19:01:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T19:01:23","slug":"family-functions","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-canton-echd250\/chapter\/family-functions\/","title":{"raw":"Family Functions","rendered":"Family Functions"},"content":{"raw":"Family functions is the third element of the Family Systems Theory. This element includes eight activities that support\u00a0 the fulfillment of the individual and collective needs of the family.\r\n
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  1. Affection: how the family displays affection among its members and the emotional commitments that they have toward each other.<\/li>\r\n \t
  2. Self-esteem: it's how each individual family member understands their self-worth and personal identity, and how they acknowledge their positive contributions.<\/li>\r\n \t
  3. Spirituality: the way the family members express their faith, their religion, and the acceptance (or lack of acceptance) to God.<\/li>\r\n \t
  4. Economy: The income that family members bring to the family unit and how this income is utilized.<\/li>\r\n \t
  5. Daily care: ways in which the family deals to cover the immediate needs for food, shelter, health care and other basic needs.<\/li>\r\n \t
  6. Socialization: the social skills that all family members must develop in order to establish interpersonal skills outside the family unit.<\/li>\r\n \t
  7. Recreation: opportunities for leisure activities for the whole family unit as well as for each family member.<\/li>\r\n \t
  8. Education: the opportunity for educational involvement and career choices.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\nAll family members must act as a part of the cohesive family unit, as well as independently to fulfill each of these eight characteristics. It's noted that some families with children with special needs struggle to find a balance these family functions as their main emphasis is to support the child in receiving services to support a stronger development within the variation of the specific needs the child has.","rendered":"

    Family functions is the third element of the Family Systems Theory. This element includes eight activities that support\u00a0 the fulfillment of the individual and collective needs of the family.<\/p>\n

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    1. Affection: how the family displays affection among its members and the emotional commitments that they have toward each other.<\/li>\n
    2. Self-esteem: it’s how each individual family member understands their self-worth and personal identity, and how they acknowledge their positive contributions.<\/li>\n
    3. Spirituality: the way the family members express their faith, their religion, and the acceptance (or lack of acceptance) to God.<\/li>\n
    4. Economy: The income that family members bring to the family unit and how this income is utilized.<\/li>\n
    5. Daily care: ways in which the family deals to cover the immediate needs for food, shelter, health care and other basic needs.<\/li>\n
    6. Socialization: the social skills that all family members must develop in order to establish interpersonal skills outside the family unit.<\/li>\n
    7. Recreation: opportunities for leisure activities for the whole family unit as well as for each family member.<\/li>\n
    8. Education: the opportunity for educational involvement and career choices.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      All family members must act as a part of the cohesive family unit, as well as independently to fulfill each of these eight characteristics. It’s noted that some families with children with special needs struggle to find a balance these family functions as their main emphasis is to support the child in receiving services to support a stronger development within the variation of the specific needs the child has.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142000,"menu_order":4,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-268","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":122,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-canton-echd250\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-canton-echd250\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-canton-echd250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-canton-echd250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/142000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-canton-echd250\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-canton-echd250\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/268\/revisions\/269"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-canton-echd250\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/122"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-canton-echd250\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/268\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-canton-echd250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-canton-echd250\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-canton-echd250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-canton-echd250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}