HUBERT KAIRUKI MEMORIAL
UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE
TOPIC:FAMILY AND FAMILY PROCESSES
DATE;23.02.2016
GROUP 22
FACILITATOR; MR ISAAC LEMA
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PRESENTERS
.1.GODFREY CHAULA
2.GITOMELDA ASKWERY
3.NKWABI MEJA
4.GEORGE ABEL
5.GLADNESS SHAYO
6HAMDAN JUMA
7HERMAN NGOWI
8IBRAHIM SADICK
9.ISAACK EDWARD
10.JUDITH FIDELIS
11.FRANK MBAMBA
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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INTRODUCTION
OBJECTIVES
DEFINITION OF TERMS
MAIN DISCUSSION
RECOMENDATIONS
SUMMARY
CONCLUSION
REFFERENCES
OBJECTIVES
• At the end of this topic you should be able to
understand;
• (1). Family and family processes
• (2). Types of families
• (3).theories of family
• (4).Role relations within the family
• (5) Changes in family structure
• (6)Breakdown in family ties
FAMILY
• Is a group of people related by blood , marriage or
strong common bond such as those from common
ancestors or a husband and wife
• A family as an institution has got its distinctive
features like :
• 1. Family last for a considerable long period of time
than any other social group
• 2. Family is intergenerational ( large age difference)
• 3. Family contains both biological and affinal
relationship between members
FAMILY PROCESSES
• Is the psychological , physiological and spiritual
function on relationship within the family unity
• The family processes involves theory , practices and
philosophical understanding of qualituve and
quantitive clinical research and training of couples to
aid family therapy , interactions and relationship with
networks and large systems
• It involves the use of social media to colect
information about the present and upcoming issue of
families
TYPES OF FAMILIES
• Families has got diffferent types depend on the nature
and membership relations such as follows
• (a)Blended family:
• Is a family composed of married couples and their
offsprings including some from previous marriage
• (b) Dysfunctional family:
• Is the family in which the adult care givers are unable to
consistently fulfill their famil responsibilies
• (c).Extended family
• Is a nuclear family and their close relatives such as
their,children's grand parents ,aunts and uncles
TYPES OF FAMIL.....
• (d) Nuclear family
• Is the family consisting of a husband and wife with no
children
• (e)Single parent family
• Is the family in which a lone parent live together with
children
• (f) Skewed family
• Is the family in which one spouse is severly dsfunctional
and the other spouse assure an acquiescent peace
making,stands to maintain equilibrium
THEORIES OF FAMILY
• (A) Exchange framework
• Individuals rationally weigh the rewards and costs
associated with behavior choices (self interest)
• (B)Symbolic interaction framework
• To understand the social behaviors , the must
understand the message actors assign to the situation
and actors idealism.
• (C) Family development framework
• Focuses on the systematic and patterned changes
experienced by families as they moved through stages
of their family life course
ROLE RELATIONS WITHIN THE FAMILY
• Motherhood , fatherhood and childhood are all social
roles. Although influenced by the constraints of biology
,they are essentially culturally organized,and so strongly
influence d by the wider rules of family membership for
example in extended family ,since a woman joins the
whole if her husbands family she may have to put as
much effort into establishing good relations with her
mother-in-law as with her husband
• Even within one general cultural system ,role
expectations can both change and vary enormously
ROLE RELATIONS.......
• ....forexample in ,in Britain many husband now play
a Mich larger part in running a households and in
child care than was generally the case two
generation ago this change has been partly
precipitated by the fact that a much large of
women now go out work.
CHANGES IN FAMILY STRUCTURE
• Fmily is a static institution. They change over time as
parents age,children grow up, and as cultural norms
alter. The precise way in this processes work out
depends upon the particular cultural context .In
patrilineal extended family sons grow up and begin to
challenge their fathers power, though do not
neccesserily consider leaving home.In British families
children usually establish independent household of
their as soon as they achieve a stable conjugal
partnership.
CHANGES IN FAMILY.......
• ......most couples in contemporaly britain can now
to spend a longer period of time together on their
own than they did during the years if child bearing
.This avoids some potential conflicts between the
generations ,but leaves older people feeling lonely
and isolated .
BREAKDOWN IN FAMILY TIES
• It is worth remembering that the impending demise
of family life has been confidently predicted ever
since the beginning of recorded history, and yet the
institution is very much with us
• Virtually everywhere in the industrialized world the
strength of kinship network between extended
families has been greatly attenuated in recent years
even so this attenuation is not universal
BREAKDOWN......
• ...tiea between and daughter ,even though they live
in different households , are most noticeably resilient
• Doctors should not only check the assumption s
about the family I terms of which each of their
patients is operating, but also what resources are
actually available to them. The community does
provide support if local networks do not exist nor if
they have been eroded to insignificance .
RECOMENDATIONS
• As in other small groups conflicts and tensions is
invariably found as well as cooperation and
understanding, and indeed without it family life
would exceedingly dull, therefore members of family
should struggle towards a renegotiation of
relationship and a new equilibrium .they may need
assistance in doing so ,but if this is not available,or if
disagreement is so strong as to be insoluble,complete
breakdown may occur
SUMMARY
• Fmily is a strong social institution tha is composed
of blood related members or by strong bond like
marriege ,,The family processes involves the
investigation of the problems arising in family so as
to strengthen the institution to bring unit so as to
ensure effective role playing among members.
CONCLUSION
• Despite all the problems they may face ,families are
likely to sustain themselves as resilient instituitions
because if the vital functions they fulfill.It is into
families that we are born,its here that we are
socialized,and establish our closest ,most enduring
and most pationate relationship.Important as our
other activities may seem,it is in the domestic
context that we spend the greater part of our
time,that we eat and sleep and take our lessure.
Above all isrefuge in times of stress.It is ties of family
and kinship,however they may be structured...
CONCL...
• ...which invariably provides the soundest and most
satisfying foundations for mutual support.
• It is for this reason that doctors need to develope
the capacity to understand,and to work positively
with their patients in their domestic context
,whatever shape ir form their families may have.
REFFERENCES
• Rapaport RH Forgarty M.P and Papaport R
(Eds)1982 Families in britain London, Routledge
and Kegan Paul
• Family theories by David M.Kellen and James
M.WhiteWhiteWhiteWhite.
• Lecture notes on behavoiral science by A.C.PSims
and W.I.Humes.