family cohesion presentation abbey, steph, tegan
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Social Environment (Family)
What is Social Family Environment?
• The family provides and important part of our social environment especially for youths development and health.
• Family can provide many resources such as shelter, food, clothing, emotional support and educational opportunities.
• The family structure, parental health and disability can all be examples of determinants that affect health and development.
What is Family Cohesion?
• Family cohesion refers to the closeness or bonds within a family.
• Family Cohesion or lack thereof is a risk factor to youth health and development.
• Issues such as substance abuse, mental illness and suicide can be a result of poor family cohesion or they can lead to it.
• Development can be influenced by the family. For example a family that regularly socializes could assist with the social skills and emotional development of the youth.
Impact on Youth HealthPositive
• Physical: Support and influence from the parents to exercise.
• Mental: the youth having self confidence• Social: the amount of time spent with family
socializing.
Negative
• Physical: Poor family eating habits• Mental: Family always fighting with each
other which could cause depression • Social: Parents leaving the child how alone for
long periods of time which could cause loneliness
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Impact on Youth DevelopmentPositive
• Intellectual: a family who helps their child with school work can help them develop their intellectual skills.
• Emotional: the family of a youth can help them develop the optimal way to deal with emotions and how to express them.
• Social: regularly socializing family can develop the child's social skills
Negative
• Physical: parents not playing with their baby which could lead to them not developing their gross/fine motor skills
• Intellectual: not sending the child to school which means they don’t learn how to read or write
• Emotional: If the parents fight a lot it could impact the child learning to express their emotions in the appropriate way.
• Social: the parents may not teach their child important values or beliefs
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