NUR1 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Child Neglect, Normal Family, Role Conflict

• School: McGill University
• Department: Nursing
• Course: NUR1 221
• Professor: Sebastien Breau

Document Summary

Roles are the behaviours associated with one who holds a particular position, position identifies a person"s status or place in a social system - normatively defined and expected. For each position, a number of roles exist each with respective sets of behaviours. Some roles might be shared with others in the group. Role behaviour: role behaviour based on prescriptions, expectations for the sets of behaviour within a societal context, many roles learned within the family context. Formal family roles: marital roles, gender roles, grandparent roles, family role changes. Informal roles fill the integrative requirements of the family group more likely based on personality traits of family members: encourager, harmonizer, initiator, compromiser, blamer, leader, follower, family scapegoat, family caretaker. Factors affecting roles: social class, family form, cultural/ethnic, family development stage, role models, crisis/life events & health/illness. Young adult, young couple families with young children/adolescents family in midlife/laterlife remarriage, divorce, single parenting.