FAMILY ISSUES – PART I T his session will engage the participants in activities that will help them to examine their personal behavioral traits and their interpersonal relationships with their parents, guardians, siblings and other family members. This session will demonstrate how cultural and historical values and belief systems have helped to shape the way families function by responding or failing to respond to the individual needs of each family member. The participants will have an opportunity to generically discuss numerous family issues that include some of the following:
· Identification of family difficulties. · The lack of concrete needs that may exist within families. · The family’s value regarding education for their children. · Health, medical and dental needs. · The family history and internal family dynamics. · Methods that families use to alleviate problems. · Substance abuse and other types of abuse within families. · Lack of communication within families. · Identification of family strengths, traditions, resources and problem solving skills.
This session is designed to help participants to be able to understand that all families incur problems and difficulties, but that families can survive and remain strong through the family’s collective resolve to manage and overcome their problems. This session is designed to encourage the participants to help maintain a positive and healthy role within their family structure.
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