Community plunge.take the plunge into healthy family relationships
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The document provides information and strategies to foster healthy family relationships through research-based approaches. It highlights the importance of building strong families, enhancing existing relationships, and addressing challenges faced by unhealthy families. The target audience includes health service providers, social workers, and parents, and resources for ongoing support are provided throughout.
![Strategies and Resources
• Build new family relationships that will be healthy and strong from
the beginning
– Plunge into
• Early prenatal health care
• Parenting education http://www.imcpl.org/cgi-bin/irntop.pl
– See: Blackman, L.C. (2006). The African American
Parent Training Program: Pulling together to Rear Our
Children – They Grow Up Only Once! www.aafle.org
• Good formal education for employment or entrepreneurship
– Graduate from high school!
– Vocational education or college after high school
• Enjoy childhood and adolescence to become the best person
possible! See: Covey, 2006 and Murray, 2001.
• Learn “How to avoid marrying a jerk [or jerkette]!”. See
http://www.nojerks.com/
• Network with Indiana Healthy Marriage and Family Coalition
http://www.ihmfc.org/](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/communityplunge-170221172211/85/Community-plunge-take-the-plunge-into-healthy-family-relationships-13-320.jpg)
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Community plunge.take the plunge into healthy family relationships
- 1. Take the Plunge into Healthy Family Relationships: Knowledge, Strategies and Resources Lorraine C. Blackman, PhD, LCSW, CFLE Indiana University, School of Social Work IUPUI Campus October 27, 2006
- 2. Time Frame • 1 hour 15 minute breakout session – 10 minutes per topic – 15 final questions/discussion)
- 3. Session Goals: • Identify research-based knowledge/information about the most effective ways to: – build new families that will be healthy and strong from the beginning – enhance already healthy and strong families – strengthen families that need to be healthier and stronger • Teach research-based strategies for taking the plunge… • Provide resources to keep you swimming…
- 4. Target Audience: • Health service providers • Social workers • School administrators • Teachers • Day care providers • Parents
- 5. Purpose: • Teach participants how to create and maintain, well-functioning and satisfying family relationships. • Provide resources to help you to keep swimming in healthy family relationships.
- 6. Problem/Rationale: • Why do we need to take the plunge into strong, healthy family relationships? – Teen dating violence (20% of female high school students) http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5022a1.htm – Births to unmarried women, ages 15+ (34.6 percent) and most to women with high school education or less http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr54/nvsr54_02.pdf. – Divorce (40% of marriages end in divorce) http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr54/nvsr54_20.pdf – New AIDS cases: 43,171 (2003) http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/aids-hiv.htm.
- 7. What is a strong, healthy family? • Strong: – Stable, not at risk of breaking up – Members not in • foster care • Incarceration • or other institutional care
- 8. What is a strong, healthy family? • Healthy: – Functional • Producing children, establishing legal responsibility for them and rearing them to be healthy, productive members of society. • Providing mutual aid to each other, especially in hard times. • Providing emotional support, love, affection for each other. • Providing regular, mutually satisfying sex to adult intimate partners. • Controlling sexual behavior of members to avoid incest, sexual assault, other sexual violence, etc. – Satisfying • Meeting or allowing the needs of everyone in the relationship to be met.
- 9. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs (Maslow, 1970). Physical: Food, Water, Oxygen, Rest, Relaxation, Sex Safety: Security, Comfort, Freedom From Fear, Peace Attachment: Belonging, To Love, To BeLoved Esteem: Self-Respect & Respect from Others Mental: Knowledge, Understanding, Newness Order & Beauty; Pleasant, Entertaining Accomplishment: Meaningful Goals, Fulfill Potential Spiritual Transcendence
- 10. Which relationships should be in our focus? • Relationships with self • Couple relationships • Parent-child relationships • Sibling relationships • Relationships between household members and extended kin • Relationships between household members and friends • Relationships between household members and work/school
- 11. Causes of weak and unhealthy relationships • Self: – Negative experiences in childhood, adolescence, or adulthood • Abandonment, abuse, neglect, exposure to violence – Anti-social values (i.e., ideas about what is right/wrong) – Destructive coping strategies (e.g., substance abuse/addictions, power & control).
- 12. Causes of weak and unhealthy relationships • Couples • Parents-children • Households, extended kin, friends, work, school – Insufficient or erroneous information – Dysfunctional attitudes (e.g., selfishness, neediness) – Poor fitting role expectations – Poor fitting or anti-social values – Destructive coping strategies (e.g., substance abuse/addictions, power & control).
- 13. Strategies and Resources • Build new family relationships that will be healthy and strong from the beginning – Plunge into • Early prenatal health care • Parenting education http://www.imcpl.org/cgi-bin/irntop.pl – See: Blackman, L.C. (2006). The African American Parent Training Program: Pulling together to Rear Our Children – They Grow Up Only Once! www.aafle.org • Good formal education for employment or entrepreneurship – Graduate from high school! – Vocational education or college after high school • Enjoy childhood and adolescence to become the best person possible! See: Covey, 2006 and Murray, 2001. • Learn “How to avoid marrying a jerk [or jerkette]!”. See http://www.nojerks.com/ • Network with Indiana Healthy Marriage and Family Coalition http://www.ihmfc.org/
- 14. Strategies and Resources • Enhance already healthy and strong family relationships – Engaged couples – Married couples at every stage of family life (See www.smartmarriages.com) • Newly weds • Couples with young children (birth or adoption) • Couples in the military See http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Jan2006/20060127_4034.htm • Couples with adolescents • Couples with adult children • Couples again! – Couples of various ethnic groups and sexual orientations • See: Blackman, L.C. (2005).The African American Marriage Enrichment Program: How to Make Your Good Thing Better www.aafle.org • Gay Male and Lesbian Partners. See http://www.chidwick.ca/familylife/GayLesbian/index.htm
- 15. Strategies and Resources • Strengthen family relationships that need to be healthier and stronger – Individual counseling, psychotherapy, life coaching – Couples and family therapy. • See: – American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy http://www.therapistlocator.net/therapistlocator/index.asp – Indiana Healthy Marriage and Family Coalition http://www.ihmfc.org/ – Certified batterer’s intervention programs • See Indiana Coalition against Domestic Violence http://violenceresource.org/bipcertprog.htm
- 16. Now what? • Come on! Take the plunge into healthy relationships! • The water’s fine!
- 17. Resources to keep you swimming… • For numerous articles on marriage education, log onto http://www.govmine.com/ts/10/search.do?qgeneral= marriage+education&ce=true&je= true&useractionfiltered=gm_homeSearch • For numerous articles on healthy relationships, log onto http://www.govmine.com/ts/10/search.do?qgeneral= healthy+relationships&id=mine&fm=l&sc=&je= true&useractionfiltered=gm_upperSearch
- 18. References • Barrios, L.C., Davis, M.K., Kann, L., Desai, S., Mercy, J. A., Reese, L.E., Sleet, D.A., Sosin, D,M. (2001). School Health Guidelines to Prevent Unintentional Injuries and Violence. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 50 (RR22). 1-46 Available online at http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5022a1.htm. • Chadwick, A. Gay Male and Lesbian Partner Program. Guelph, ON, Canada. Family Life Education Services. Available at http://www.chidwick.ca/familylife/GayLesbian/index.htm#Ordering • Covey, S. (2006). 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make: A 7 Habits Guide for Teens. NY: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group. • Information and Referral Network. Central Indiana Human Services Database. Indianapolis, IN. Available online at http://www.imcpl.org/cgi-bin/irntop.pl • Maslow, A.H. (1970) Motivation and Personality, (2nd ed.). NY: Harper & Row.
- 19. References • Martin, J.A., Hamilton, B.E., Sutton, P.D., Ventura, S.J., Menacker, F., & Munson, M.L. (2005). Births: Final data for 2003. National vital statistics reports (54)2. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. Available online at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr54/nvsr54_02.pdf. • Munson ML, Sutton PD. (2006). Births, marriages, divorces, and deaths: Provisional data for 2005. National vital statistics reports (54)20. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. Available online at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr54/nvsr54_20.pdf. • Murray, J. (2001). But I Love Him: Protecting Your Teen Daughter from Controlling, Abusive Dating Relationships. NY: HarperCollins Publishers. • Van Epp, J. (2006). How to Avoid Marrying a Jerk: The Fool-Proof Way to Follow Your Heart Without Losing Your Mind. NY: McGraw- Hill.