CHFD445 Week 8 Discussion

Myths

In an effort to expand the dialogue beyond what you know presently about family violence, please select two "myths" from the list below and engage in research as you respond with a more accurate and factual response. Please ensure that you support your findings.

Myth: Domestic violence is a personal problem between a husband and a wife.

Myth: Domestic and family violence happens only to poor, uneducated women and women from certain cultures.

Myth: Violence is about anger and rage. The abuser is out of control.

Myth: Domestic violence is usually a one-off, isolated incident caused by anger or stress

Myth: It's only physical abuse if you mean to hurt your child.

Myth: Physical punishment helps parents control their child's behavior.

Myth: Abuse is most often committed by strangers.

Myth: Domestic violence happens only once or twice in a relationship.

Myth: Abused and neglected children almost always come from poor, minority or inner- city families.

Complete your post, by also responding to the following question:

Do you have any perceptions about family violence that have been challenged as a result of this week's reading and research?

   

 

CHFD445 Week 8 Assignment 4 Improving Family Relationships

Instructions

Assignment 4 Week 8

Improving Family Relationships

 

Regardless of what type of relationship we are in—whether in terms of friendship, romance, or family members, all relationships are in the process of either developing or dying.  This paper requires you to analyze a family relationship using communication concepts/theories and principles from the text, discussions etc.

 

The purpose of this assignment is to familiarize students with all of the course objectives.  You are to analyze interpersonal communication principles and concepts in the development, maintenance, and possibly, the deterioration of a long term significant family relationship.  The relationship you choose to write about can be one that you are currently engaged in, or one that has already ended.   It should, however, be a fairly recent one, not a relationship you had in grade school.  If you cannot think of one involving a family member then and only then can it be a friendship relationship or a romantic relationship.  You don't need to disclose any information you are not comfortable with disclosing and please change names for privacy.

 

Content

This paper involves more than just simply summarizing the development of a relationship.  While you will want to offer some description of the relationship; the main emphasis should be on how it has developed in communication between two people.  You should organize your paper into the following three parts:

 

1. Introduction:  Describe the relationship.  Who are the participants?  What is the history of the relationship?  What is the current status of the relationship?  This information should be relatively brief.  Next, introduce the body of the paper by indicating the terms/concepts you will use to analyze the relationship.

 

2. Body:  In this section of the paper you will analyze the relationship using interpersonal communication concepts, terms, topics, etc.  This is by far the longest section of the paper.

 

• First organize the body of the paper around the stages of relationship development (see your textbook and utilize your research).  These stages can provide an excellent outline for the paper.  The key here is to talk about how the stages are created in COMMUNICATION.  How did communication change to move the relationship to another stage, and how did communication define a certain stage?

 

• Select at least three concepts that we've discussed in class and apply them to your relationship.  You may discuss these concepts and how they affected the communication in your relationship as you take us through the stages, or you may want to discuss them apart from the stages in terms of how they have played out in your relationship.  Use evidence to support your claims and use it in each stage---using direct quotes from the text, and specific examples from your relationship.

 

 Conclusion:  This section includes a brief summary of the body of the paper.  End the paper with some reflections on your relationship, and what you learned as a result of writing this paper.

      

CHFD445 Week 7 Discussion

Overcoming Challenges: Describe a challenge facing stepfamilies today (as cited in the readings). What challenge do you feel is most difficult to overcome? Why?  What resources might this family need to go from conflictual to bonded? Present a description of resources.

  

CHFD445 Week 6 Assignment 3

Instructions

Assignment 3  Week 6

For this assignment, you will identify six relationship and communication issues that are correlated with low marital satisfaction.  Discuss each communication issue in depth and identify at least 2 strategies for addressing each issue.  Use credible research sources to support the identification of the issues as well as the strategies for addressing each issue.  Please complete this assignment in a word document.  The length requirement for this assignment is 500-750 words.

   

CHFD445 Week 5 Discussion

Family Stressors: Choose a minor or major stressor that your family has experienced and  one that you are comfortable talking about.                                                                     

For this week's discussion:

• Analyze how it affected members of your family that are relevant to the stressor by describing and illustrating the situation using the ABC-X Model as referenced in the text. (Bonus: Include an actual model or graphic of the ABC-X Model as it relates to your family's situation)
• Was this a temporary or permanent family stressor? Explain.
• Was this a voluntary or involuntary family stressor? Explain.
• Was this a normative or nonnormative family stressor? Explain.
• Did the family experience Level 1, II or III stress as a result? Explain.
• Which, if any, of coping strategies did you and/or your family use ? Explain.

      

CHFD445 Week 4 Discussion

Communication- Communication is the foundation of successful parenting. Explain why this is necessary in order to build a healthy parent- child relationship. In addition, compare how your parenting style is similar to and different from the parenting style in which you were raised.  If you are not yet a parent, use the parenting style of a friend or sibling as your comparison. The contemporary parenting models are listed below.

Parenting Models:

• Authoritarian Parenting
• Authoritative Parenting
• Permissive Parenting
• Uninvolved Parenting

        

CHFD445 Week 4 Assignment 2

Assignment 2 Week 4

What are some of the special communication issues facing single parents?  How can these issues be handled most constructively?  Use the text plus 2 other sources to support your response. Please create this assignment in a word document.  The length requirement for this assignment is 500-750 words.

  

CHFD445 Week 3 Discussion

Mate Selection Interviews

Interview three couples:

Married less than 5 years

Married more than 10 years

Married more than 20 years

• What did you know about your mate before marriage?
• What would you have liked to know about your mate before marriage, even though it probably would not have made any difference?
• What qualities does your mate have that are important to you?
• Did anyone make suggestion on how to find the best mate before you were married?
• What were those suggestions?
• What were you looking for in a mate? Did you have any clear idea what you wanted in a mate that you would spend the rest of your life with?
• What advice would you give your children and grandchildren about finding the right mate?
• What are the most important qualities does the right mate have to have?

If you were seventeen, again what would you look for in a lifetime partner?

(Write your own question)

 For this week's discussion:

Share and analyze the responses received and provide a discussion on the results.  Be sure to touch on the following in your response:

-Commonalities

-Differences

- Main Themes

Use credible research sources to craft your argument, not opinion.

   

CHFD445 Week 2 Assignment 1

Instructions

Assignment 1 Week 2

Mona and her 14 year old twin daughters are at home.  The girls begin squabbling over who gets to use the family's iPad.  Mona intervenes to stop the fight.  Using the Raven and French model of power, what might Mona say to end the fight?  For example if Mona were relying on the reward power model, what would be her possible response that would result in an end to fight?  Do the same for each type of power identified in the French Model.  Please create this assignment in a word document.  Your assignment should be 500-750 words in length.

  

CHFD445 Week 1 Discussion

This Discussion contains 2 parts. Please respond to both parts in your initial post.  Completing this Discussion is a University Requirement.  Please follow the directions carefully in order to earn maximum credit.

PART A: Introduce yourself and share a bit about yourself presently. Discuss what you hope to gain from this course. Your first post in this discussion must be a minimum of 250 words. It must be made in the first week of class. It is used to confirm your entry into the course. If you do not write a 250 word first post in this discussion within a week, you will be dropped from the course.

PART B: 

Exploring Communication: Peterson & Green (2009) note that research has found effective communication to be a core "building block" in familial relationship types, while ineffective communication is related to challenges such as martial problems (e.g., separation, divorce) as well as behavioral problems in children.

You will have the opportunity to apply what you have been learning about communication by observing and analyzing the communication skills of others. First, choose two of the following groups of people to observe:

• Peers or colleagues
• Children and adolescents
• Family
• Group of children (same age group)

You may observe adults communicating with adults, adults communicating with children, or children communicating with children. You may also choose the situation, or venue, where the observation will take place, such as a family gathering, a group of friends meeting for lunch, a group of children on a playground or in an early childhood setting, a meeting at work, and so on. Make sure to obtain permission from the group you are observing and explain you are not there to judge but rather record observations about communication skills. Encourage the people you are observing to interact naturally. If possible, try not to observe groups with more than five or six people. During your observation, look for the following:

• Verbal skills and cues (formal/information, direct/vague, positive/negative)
• Nonverbal skills and cues (intentional cues such as gestures, eye contact, and facial expressions; involuntary nonverbal cues such as blushing, body position, and tone of voice)
• Listening (active, passive, defensive, attending, empathetic, reflective)

For this week's Discussion:

Summarize the interactions you observed. Based on these observations, write a response indicating what you learned with regard to communication skills, including the following:

• Which verbal and nonverbal skills and cues did you observe?
• Which, if any, fostered communication? Provide examples.
• Which, if any, impeded communication? Provide examples.
• Were there any similarities and or differences with regard to communication across gender, ages, and/or context?
• What, if anything surprised you about the communication you observed?

What did you learn from these observation experiences that will help you be a more effective communicator? In looking at the way that families communicate, what insight have you gained from the observations recorded?

Reference: Peterson, R., & Green, S. (2009). Families first: Keys to successful

    

CHFD445 Week 6 Discussion

 Divorce Session: You have been selected as a facilitator for a session during a Premarital Workshop. The subject of your session, you’ve just learned is “Divorceproofing Your Marriage”.  You will need to, of course, prepare to lead the Week 6 breakout session during this Premarital Workshop, so you begin to research information on risk-factors of divorce, ways to avoid divorce,  normative and nonnormative family stressors, how divorce impacts the family, children of divorce and the list goes on.  You decide to focus on “Normative and Nonnormative Family Stressors and the Impact For Divorce”.

For this week’s discussion:

For the purpose of planning and meeting the requirements of this week’s discussion, list and describe the 10 Key Strategies to Understanding and Minimizing Stressors Within A Marriage & Divorceproofing Your Marriage” (this would be a list that you have created as a result of your research). Please ensure that you provide support of these strategies.  As you read through the lists posted by your peers, please present questions to them that will in turn help them to refine and gain an even deeper understanding of these strategies and the impact of divorce.

 

CHFD445 Week 2 Discussion

Assessment of Family Interaction. Use your family or select a family to interview and complete a family interaction assessment. A Family Interaction Assessment is included below.

For this week’s discussion:

 After completing the assessment write an analysis based on the responses provided. Ensure that you address the following in your response for this week:

Give a brief overview of your results from the assessment.

1. What strengths do you see for this family?
2. What are three positive things this family does to interact with each other.
3. Are there any noted areas of conflict within this family?
4. In terms of fostering positive interactions within the family, are there any areas for needed change?

Family Interaction Assessment

These questions address different aspects of the family process. You will need to respond to at least 15 of these questions.

       ________ When there is a birth or adoption, how do members of the family react?

• ________ When someone has died, how have members of the family reacted?
• ________ If a family member left the family in another way, what was the response of family members?
• ________ What types of jobs do family members choose? Do you see any patterns in this?
• ________ Do you see differences in expectations for family members, based on gender?
• ________ Do you see differences in expectations for family members, based on age?
• ________ Do you see differences in expectations for family members, based on roles?
• ________ Do you see differences in expectations for family members, based on birth order?
• ________ How do/did family members get along? Did/Do some family members get along better than others?
• ________ Is anyone in the family particularly helpful or unhelpful to others? (i.e., Who did/do people turn to for help? Who do/did they know not even bother asking?)
• ________ Are/were there any special talents that anyone has/had in the family?
• ________ Is/was anyone expected to be especially good or bad at anything?
• ________ How did/do family members spend their leisure time? Together? Apart?
• ________ Did/do family members behave differently outside the family? How?
• ________ What is/was the effect of sibling position in the family (e.g., oldest, youngest, middle)?
• ________ What were/are sibling relationships like?
• ________ When a crisis hits, how do family members react? Do you see the response or helpful or hurtful for the family?
• ________ When there was a special success or triumph in the family, how did family members react?
• ________ Are/were family members active in religious or community organizations?
• ________ What is/was the religious and/or spiritual climate of the home?
• ________ Were/are there any family themes you can identify (e.g., "We are a strong family." "Members of this family are honest, even if it hurts.")?
• ________ What do you see as the source of the values in your family?
• ________ What coincidences do you see in the family (e.g., most of the children in this family are born near a Friday the 13th and if they are born on Friday the 13th, they are always boys--an actual coincidence from a student's genogram). Or perhaps you don't see these as coincidences--if this is so, explain.
• ________ How were family members affected by major historical events (e.g., the war in Vietnam, the civil rights movement of the 50's and 60's)?
• ________ Where do you see alliances in the family? What contributed to these alliances?
• ________ What relationships do you see as conflictual? Why do you think they were this way?
• ________ What relationships do you see as cooperative? Why do you think they were this way?
• ________ How were family members characterized (e.g., favorite child, leader, follower, peacemaker, troublemaker, etc.). Why was/is this so?
• ________ Was there any particular moment in the life of a family member when he/she had a dramatic change in how he/she viewed the family?
• ________ Is there a particular aspect of your family that you see as healthy? Explain?