Title: Identify characteristics and strategies to create and maintain a strong functional family.
Course: Life Planning (19257-18) > Section: Creating and Maintaining Healthy Relationships

Identification should include

- appreciating and respecting each other
- affirming and supporting each other
- spending time together
- having a sense of play and humor
- sharing religious and/or ethical and moral values
- dealing positively with crises
- having a sense of shared responsibility
- balancing family members' needs for interaction with needs for privacy
- seeking help for problems when needed
- using effective communication skills to listen, share, and resolve conflict
- having a strong sense of family, with rituals and traditions.

Process/Skill Questions:

Thinking

- What is meant by the term functional family? What are the functions of the family?
- Why are strategies needed to create and maintain a strong, functional family?
- What factors might influence your beliefs or ideas regarding strong, functional families?

Communication

- Why are good communication skills essential to creating and maintaining a strong, functional family?
- What communication skills are needed to display unconditional love in caring ways?

Leadership

- What leadership skills enable you to accept help and support when needed?
- How can leadership skills be used to work out problems and challenges as a family?

Management

- What information is needed to develop strategies for creating and maintaining a strong, functional family?
- What barriers are faced when seeking to create and maintain a strong, functional family?