Family Dynamics

Family dynamics
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Introduction
While working with families, there is a need to take into account cultural diversity, and as such respect to the family and child is taken into consideration. However, a community may have different perceptions on bringing up children because of differences in attitudes, lifestyles and beliefs. Hence, when working with families, effective collaboration between professionals and the parents improves early childhood services (Shimoni & Baxter, 2013). For instance, when working with children with special attention, one is required to pay extra attention, because their development is faced with challenges. After identifying the special needs, then proposing the possible coping strategies as well as providing ongoing support can help families deal better with challenges of looking at children with special needs.
Children and their needs in a family
People rely on their experiences and colure to interpreting information and meaning in social associations. Families play an important role in the development of a child since the child gets their initial perspective on life from their surrounding and this shapes the values, beliefs and culture in other words a child’s interactions in influencing their behavior cannot be downplayed, given that diverse people play different roles in the lives of a child. In the movie Little Miss Sunshine, the dysfunctional family embarks on a trip so as to enroll the little daughter in a beauty pageant, but then encounter obstacles on the way. The Hoover family members all interact differently from the grandfather the children and the children’s uncle, and there are suggestions it is a dysfunctional family.
Typically family members in a well integrated in the system interact with open communication, but in dysfunctional families the bonds may not be strong enough and this drives the people further away. The family members may have their roles and hence try to adjust to them. There is a deep understanding on what each family member ought to do in the family set up. The family positions further highlight on the family expectations as well as relationship rules. The ideal nuclear family can also be dysfunctional potentially limiting the growth of children, and as such families need to work on their own families. As such, there is a need to understand whether dysfunctional families can become better united.
To further highlight on the importance of family relationships is the way they affect a person’s self esteem and relationship with their spouses, children and friends. Family members may have different personalities, but this could simply be as a response to the personalities of the other family members (Richardson, 2011) As such, in dysfunctional homestead, there is imbalance that often creates unhappiness that affects all the family members. In any family set –up family members and friends may knowingly or unknowingly influence the behavior of children since they often shape the image that children have about themselves.
In a dysfunctional family, the family members are likely to maintain the current position rather than try to deal with problems in the disordered system. Since the members f...