Part 1 Chapter 3 Learning Questions

The Family

1. What is a family?

2. What is the competency model of working with families?

3. How does the nurse assess family communication? What will the nurse be focusing on?

4. What are boundaries?

5. Define clear boundaries, rigid boundaries, and diffuse boundaries.

6. What is meant by family cohesion?

7. How does the nurse assess cohesion?

8. What is family flexibility?

9. What is emotional availability?

10. What is family competency?

11. What is resiliency?How does psychiatric disability impact the family?

12. List three burdens of the family with a member with psychiatric disability.

13. What is disenfranchised grief?

14. What is complicated grief?

15. What two factors in the family can contribute to relapse in the client?