Family-Focused Functional Assessment
Family Focused Assessment
Develop an interview questionnaire to be used in a family-focused functional assessment. The questionnaire must include three open-ended, family-focused questions to assess functional health patterns for each of the following:
- Values/Health Perception
- Nutrition
- Sleep/Rest
- Elimination
- Activity/Exercise
- Cognitive
- Sensory-Perception
- Self-Perception
- Role Relationship
- Sexuality
- Coping
Select a family, other than your own, and seek permission from the family to conduct an interview. Utilize the interview questions complied in your interview questionnaire to conduct a family-focused functional assessment. Document the responses as you conduct the interview.
Upon completion of the interview, write a 1000- 1250 word paper. Analyze your assessment findings. Submit your questionnaire as an appendix with your assignment.
Include the following in your paper:
- Describe the family structure. Include individuals and any relevant attributes defining the family composition, race/ethnicity, social class, spirituality, and environment.
- Summarize the overall health behaviors of the family. Describe the current health of the family.
- Based on your findings, describe at least two of the functional health pattern strengths noted in the findings. Discuss three areas in which health problems or barriers to health were identified.
- Describe how family systems theory can be applied to solicit changes in family members that, in turn, initiate positive changes to the overall family functions over time.
Cite at least three peer-reviewed or scholarly sources to complete this assignment. Sources should be published within the last 5 years and appropriate for the assignment criteria.
Prepare this assignment according to the APA , NO PLAGIARISM PLEASE
Family Assessment Questions
Interview Question
1. Values, health perception: How healthy is your family? Do you always try to follow doctor’s recommendations when given?
2. Nutrition: Do you read labels for nutrition value? What kind of snacks do you eat?
3. Sleep/Rest: How much sleep do you get a night? Does anyone snore?
4. Elimination: Do you all have normal bowel movements? How often?
5. Activity/Exercise: How much exercise do you get in a typical week? What types of exercise do you do?
6. Cognitive: Do you ever get confused? How are decisions made?
7. Sensory-Perception: How is your eyesight? Is taste a problem?
8. Self-Perception: Do you feel hopeful about the future? What do you think of yourself?
9. Role Relationship: How is your marital relationship? How do you discipline?
10. Sexuality: How often do you have sex? Is there any sexual dysfunction?
11. Coping: What methods do you use to deal with stress? Have there been any prominent stressful events in your life lately?
Family Assessment The family chosen for this assignment are family friends who agreed to conduct the interview and discuss any health issues they had. Because some of the questions were fairly invasive into their private lives, no names are given.