Families with People/Children/ Elders with Special Numerous are Learn for Family Dynamics Family dynamics impact nearly all areas of life, making understanding them incredibly important. Family dynamics represent the interactions and relationships within a family unit. They influence how individuals view themselves and others, as well as future relationships and well-being. Understanding one's own family dynamics provides insight and helps develop connections to oneself and make healthy relationship and life choices.

1. Families with People/Children/ Elders with Special Numerous are Learn for
Family Dynamics
KOMAL OJHA
PH.D 1ST SEM.
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2. Family
Family- A family is a group of two people or more (one of whom is the householder)
related by birth, marriage, or adoption and residing together; all such people (including
related subfamily members) are considered as members of one family.
Family group- A family group is any two or more people (not necessarily including a
householder) residing together, and related by birth, marriage, or adoption. A household may
be composed of one such group, more than one, or none at all. The count of family groups
includes family households, related subfamilies, and unrelated subfamilies.
Family household- A family household is a household maintained by a householder who
is in a family and includes any unrelated people who may be residing there. The number of
family households is equal to the number of families. The count of family household
members differs from the count of family members, however, in that the family household
members include all people living in the household, whereas family members include only
the householder and his/her relatives.

3. Family Dynamics
A family dynamic is the scheme of family members’ relations and interactions
including many prerequisite elements (family arrangements, hierarchies, rules,
and patterns of family interactions).
Each family is unique in its characteristics; having several helpful and unhelpful
dynamics. Family dynamics will ultimately influence the way young people view
themselves/others and the world. It will also impact their relationships/behaviors
and their future wellbeing.
“Family dynamics is the complement to
the static or structural component of a
family.”
-Jonathan Davis

4. Lifespan Development and Family Dynamics
Human lifespan development is about how individuals change over the
course of their individual lives, their journey from conception to death. Family
dynamics is also about constant change—that of the family within which
individual lives are embedded.
Looking Back and Looking Forward
Families reflect the values, strengths, and shortcomings of that society. When
societies are under attack, that destruction enters the family and affects all the
members, all the way down to the youngest and most vulnerable ones. On the
other hand, when families thrive, they create productive, rewarding, and
nurturing communities.
If we can find the how and why of these dynamic interactions, it leads us down
the path of understanding, explaining, and possibly therapeutically intervening
in the course that families take.

5. Cont..
What adds to the complexity is that participants of any dynamic
system are often unaware of the reasons for their actions and
some times even of the presence of these actions. A mother may
be unaware that she is being over controlling toward her teenage
daughter, yet this dynamic interaction tells us about the
relationship and the potential challenges of the relationship. The
pattern evolving between them may, in turn, guide us toward a
suggested intervention to facilitate more positive outcomes.

6. Healthy Family Dynamics
In a healthy family dynamic:
• Everyone has a voice and is treated with respect
• The parent-child attachments are secure (if there is a child or
children)
• If there are children, the parenting style provides structure and
rules, but is flexible, understanding, and loving (vs. overly
rigid or totally non-structured)
• Everyone feels loved, safe, and connected

7. Numerous learn for Family Dynamics
Family dynamics impact nearly all areas of life, making understanding them
incredibly important to individuals who are working towards living an
emotional healthy life. Without a solid understanding of your own unique
family dynamics, you may not feel fully in tune with why certain experiences
are triggering, or why you are drawn to certain careers, relationships, and
friendships. Understanding your family dynamics means:
 Being connected to yourself
 Developing insight
 Understanding your conscious and unconscious choices, as an
awareness of this can help you seek out healthy relationships and
experiences as well as have a healthy awareness of your needs

8. Cont..
 Family dynamics represent an extra dimension pertaining to the family. It is like a
collection of force fields, whose influences wash over us to become noticeable in
our daily lives.
 Ancestry and identity- Because all of us can claim some family and
ancestral background through our genetic makeup, it may be safe to say that no
person is an island. The current interest in ancestry and DNA testing speaks to the
connections we may seek out with our own past, as it can influence our present
identity. Ancestral and family connections can be found somewhere, even if the
direct connections were severed. In our histories, biological parents made it
possible for our births to occur, despite the variations on the theme of parenthood
that are possible.
 Family scientists- The helping professionals directly concerned with the family
and family well-being are often collectively called family scientists.
• As a group, these professionals can include family life educators, social workers,
psychologists, counselors, marriage and family therapists, members of multi-
professional medical teams, clergy, and experts providing spiritual counsel.
• Indirectly a host of professions can be influenced by the needs and functions of
families; architects and town planners focus on housing developments with the
needs of families in mind, industrial designers may try to meet the needs of various
family members through the design of products, social policy makers try to improve
legal outcomes affecting families.

9. Cont…
• Economists and those marketing products also benefit from insight into what
families need to support optimal functioning.
• Legal professionals focusing on family law can become the mouthpiece for legal
rights. These mentioned professions represent the tip of the iceberg.
• It also enhances interventions such as family and related therapy, and it can aid
better outcomes for the future, by informing public policy decisions, for example.
Undoubtedly there are a host of other applications, but in essence the ethical study
of families is to gain understanding and to support optimal outcomes. This can be
achieved through a variety of professions in numerous contexts and applications.
• Changing gender roles has meant discussions about equal pay for equal work,
parental leave for both parents (not only the mother), free and compulsory
schooling for all, support for families who are raising a child with special needs,
and more.
• In short, appropriate public policy can provide the safety net that strengthens
families and guides them toward greater resilience. The entire society benefits from
these investments, as they strengthen the very fiber that makes up a given society;
this support strengthens families and their futures.

10. The Changing Family
• Activities and functions of families of the past are quite
different than today.
• In early history, the family hunted and gathered in order to
survive.
• Family members filled roles that provided survival.
• They lived in family groups.
• As agriculture evolved, families were able to set up
permanent homes, and become independent as a family.
• The industrial revolution brought new pressures on society
and the family.
• The father was typically the main provider and the mother
was the full-time homemaker.
• People no longer worked solely for the survival of their
own family.
• The technological age continues to affect families today.

11. How Families Adapt to Change
• To be effective, families must be resilient.
• Families must be prepared to cope with the
effects of a technological society.
• Although technology makes life easier, it
presents a challenge to families at home and
at work.
o At work-must keep up the technological advances.
o At home-important family functions displaced

12. Family Functions in Various Cultures
Families take many forms, but the functions they perform
are the same from culture to culture. Families Provide:
 Education (religion)
 Love & Affection
 Nurturance
 Children
 Procreation
 Protection
 Recreation
 Economic support

13. Cont…
Provide Physical Needs-
• To the best of their abilities, families provide the necessities of life such as
food, clothing, shelter, furnishings, and health care.
Education-
• From the moment of birth, children are taught the ways of their culture by
their families.
• Families teach children how to speak a language, how to take care of
themselves, and how to get along with others.
• Families also convey their beliefs about religion to their children.
Provide Love & Affection-
• An important family function is to provide an emotional “safe haven” for
family members.
• They know their needs for love, affection, and acceptance will be met.

14. Nurturance
• The family provides the environment for
nurturing the social skills of children,
which allows them to function in the
world.
• Families teach, mostly by example, the
difference between acceptable and
unacceptable behavior.
• As a result their children can take their
places as productive members of society.

15. Procreation
• Through procreation (reproduction),
couples bring the members of the next
generation into the world.
• Although a male-female bond forms the
foundation for parenting the family life
across cultures, marriage forms may differ
widely.

16. Protection
• Adult family members are responsible for the care of
all family members.
• Responsible parents provide protection from harm,
encourage good health and safety habits, form
wholesome friendships, and avoid situations in which
they are likely to become victims of crime.

17. Recreation
• Sports, games, and other
recreational pursuits provide
family members with relaxation
and physical exercise.
• These activities provide children
with opportunities to learn
communication skills and good
sportsmanship.

18. Factors That Affect FamilyDynamics
Family dynamics may be impacted by:
• The parents' relationship
• If the parents or caregivers are not together and/or are dating/committed to other
partners
• If there are children within the family and if so, how many
• If one or multiple parents or caregivers are abusive, neglectful, or have abandoned a
child or children
• If someone in the family has a chronic condition, an addiction, and/or one or more
mental health disorders
• If the family or an individual within the family has experienced trauma,
homelessness, a loss, or a divorce or breakup
• The power structure in the family
• If parent-child attachments are secure
• What the pervasive family dynamic patterns are
• What the environmental climate/experience is like that the family is living through
• What the parenting style is like
• If multiple generations live within the same household
• The family members' temperaments