2. Help patients understand the influences of their families in their own lives, such as intergenerational transmission of trauma and resilience. Teachers focus on the creation of a genogram, and the location of the individual within their family system 3. Understand that mental health includes the creation and maintenance of healthy relationships. Teachers focus on assessing a willingness to listen to others’ points of view and the co-creation of a shared reality and belief system: a belief that relationships can change over time, and how to create new family narratives. 4. Understand the impact of illness on the family unit and the impact of the family unit on illness. Teachers focus on the concept of a family system, clarifying the roles within the family, including caregiving responsibilities. 5. Assess the family for strengths and weaknesses. Teachers focus on how families maintain a healthy emotional climate, allocate roles, decide on rules, problem solving abilities etc 6. Gather information from multiple informants in the same room Teachers focus on utilizing communication techniques to elicit, guide, and redirect information from multiple individuals of a system with varying perspectives in the same room. Teachers help students understand that there are multiple realities in families and learn how to maintain multidirectional partiality. Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes Across All Treatment Settings Family oriented care and systems based thinking achieves the above training goals by cultivating: Knowledge Beginning Level Healthy family functioning at the various phases of the family life cycle. Systems concepts are applicable to families, multidisciplinary teams in clinical settings, and medical/ government organizations. However, family systems are distinguished by deep attachment bonds, specific generational hierarchy, goals of emotional safety and, for many families, child rearing. Systemic thinking, unlike a linear cause and effect model, examines the feedback loops by which multiple persons or groups arrive at a specific way of functioning. Understanding boundaries, subsystems, and feedback loops is critical to understanding interpersonal connections. Understand how the family affects and is affected by psychiatric and medical illnesses. Impact of interpersonal stress on biological systems.
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