SWB110

The processes that account for an individual's intensity, direction and persistence of effort towards attaining a goal

• The permissive parent - is highly supportive but makes rew rules and trusts rather than monitors ("I trust you'll do the right thing")
• The authoritative parent - is highly supportive AND closely monitors and set rules ("I care, and I'll give you the freedoms you earn; but for safety-related issues you'll do as I say")
• The uninvolved parent - sets few rules, does not monitor behaviour and offers little active support ("Kids will be kids - you'll learn from your mistakes")
• The authoritarian parent - sets many rules and closely monitors but offers little support ("You'll do as I say")

Childhoos events, varying in severity, occuring in a child's family or social environment that cause harm or disress, thereby disrupting the child's physical or psychological health and development

Adverse Childhood Experiences - the higer the number of ACE's the higher the chance of negative health outcomes in the future

      Both the capacity of individuals to naviagte their way to the psychological, social, cultural and physical resources that sustain their well-being & their capacity individually/collectively to negotiate for these resources to be provided and experienced in culturally meaningful ways 

• Visualised or otherwise repeatedly percieved memories
• Repetivitve behaviours
• Trauma specific fears
• Changed attitudes about people, life and the future, suggesting expectation of future trauma 

The brain has the ability to change itself after trauma 

Separation from family/community supports

Lack of inclusion in new area - need to settle down takes time

Internal struggle - is it a good idea or not?

Members in a family will have different perspectives/reactions to the change

Independence may be lost (rural-urban) or activities that were usual may be restricted

Systems differ - education/employment etc.

Cultural norms may differ

Loss of social standing

Qualifications are not often recognised when moving - can cause financial stress

Infers choice to move - often associated with percieved economic or social benefit 

Forced migration - often due to violence and conflict where the person cannot return given well-founded fears of persecution

Claim for refugee status has not yet been assesed - sort of a limbo state 

Forced to flee but remain within national borders (can be due to natural disasters or political unrest)

• Four types of resources necessary to survive stressful times
  • Object resources (concrete basics for survival)
  • Condition resources (status that confers benefits or respect)
  • Personal resources (coping skills)
  • Energy resources (money, knowledge, time
• Loss in one area can affect other areas - 'loss spirals'
  • Can snowball the other way too (if someone gains one resource it will create momentum for the other resources to grow

• Prevents stagnation
• Stimulates interest and creativity
• Provides for problems to be examined
• Motivates problem solving
• Assists in personal growth, identity and development (differentiation)
• Promotes group identity and cohesion
• Encourages self-assessment and examination
• Promotes creativity and innovation

The concept of 'families of choice' is intended to capture the commitment of chosen, rather than fixed, relationships and ties of intimacy, care and support

A household is a physical structure that can contain an individual or a social group that may or may not be considered a family, who co-reside, usually involving sleeping under the same roof and typically sharing a range of domestic activities -- everyday

Refers to formal systems of relationships with regard to alliances of marriage and lines of descent, More recently it is also used to refer to broad family connections in contemporary developed societies

how family membership and experiences may have consequences for individuals

Suggests that the ways in which families change over time are characterised by a cyclical pattern, while the concept of the life course pays particular attention to the individual life trajectory as a person moves through different roles and experiences

attempts to explain the way people in particular social positions are expected to behave, or the way in which they develop particular patterns of behaviour when they occupy such positions

draws on the idea of system as used in engineering, to describe the family as a whole entity in which all the parts are seen as closely interconnected

Suggests that babies and young children need to create satisfactory emotional bonds with their caretakers if they are to develop as healthy children and adults, and make adequate relationships through life

Refers to the regular patterns of division in society that are associated with membership of particular social groupings, generally in terms of advantages and disadvantages, inequalities and differences.

Refer to government statements, goals and courses of action concerning the provision of welfare and distribution of goods that affect family lives, resources and forms but can be implicated in a wide range of policy areas

Term used for those families said to be on the margins of mainstream society in terms of their behaviour and values

Sees the family as an institution constituting as a basic building block of society, performing certain functions that must be fulfilled for social order to be possible and for society to continue

Share a concern with power inequalities that occur within and between families. Tend to bring into view the family as an oppressive institution

Refers to the meaning and expression of close family and personal relationships, and the qualities that they may be supposed to provide