Assignment Module 5-1 Family Health Assessment
Name: Onoghe Philomena Aidoghie Date: 3/24/2020
Overview: Family Health Assessment
Please use your interview family for this assignment
You will use the Friedman Family Assessment Short Form to guide this assignment. This is a
useful instrument to give you an overview of family functioning, communication, strengths and
challenges.
Instructions:
1. Refine and include the interview family Genogram from Assignment Module 4-1.
2. Perform the Family Health Assessment using the modified Friedman Family Assess-
ment Short Form below to gather information and make observations of your interview
family.
3. You do not need to duplicate information as sections may overlap.
4. You may handwrite on the tool as you will be summarizing the areas of the Friedman
Family Assessment Short Form in this paper.
5. Using the using the modified Friedman Family Assessment Short Form below, identify
and elaborate on your findings for your interview family.
6. Write a minimum of one paragraph for each category and address as many of the
26 subcategories as possible for this assignment.
7. Under the Family Function category include a summary paragraph on your Module 2-1
assignment to discuss the Health Care Function sub category.
8. APA is not required. If you cite sources please add references per APA 6th edition. You
may use this document or a separate paper to complete this assignment.
Family Health Assessment
1. Interview Family Genogram refined from Assignment Module 4-1. This may be
placed at the end of the assignment.
,2. Write a minimum of one paragraph for each category and address as many
of the 26 subcategories such as Socializing function and Health care func-
tion.
Indentifying data (has 6 sub categories with bullet points)
1. Family Name: E.O, R.O, A.O, E.O, C.O
2. Family Genogram: E.O- Male, Husband, Police officer, Associate degree in
Political science and high school diploma.
R.O-Female, Wife, Sales representative in Amazon, Bachelor of Business Infor-
mation systems.
A.O-Female, Daughter, High school diploma
E.O-Male, Son, Academic diploma
C.O- Female, Daughter, Junior high school
3. Cultural Background: The family states they are of the Africa background from
Nigeria and can speak their native language as well as English.
4. Religious Background: The family stated that they are affiliated with the
Christian religion and they regularly attend the Redeem Christian Church
Of God.
5. Social Class Status: The family reports being classified as middle class. They are
financially stable and do not struggle to pay bills or put food on the table. The
family goes on yearly vacations and can travel to see family regularly.
, 6. Social Class Mobility: They family reports outings on weekends to eat dinner
or shop every couple of weekends. They own four different SUV for use, for
work, school and leisure time. The family spends leisure time going hurting and
fishing as well as other outdoor activities.
Developmental stage and history of the family (has 4 sub categories bullet points)
7. Family’s Present Developmental Stage: Middle age adults
8. Extent of Family Developmental Tasks Fulfillment: Family reports being
married, with little marital issues, due to the husband drinking problems, of which
he has seek for help. The couple go on dates at least once a month and now
spend every evening together after work.
9. Nuclear Family History: EO and RO have been married since 1998 and have
only been in a relationship with each other. They both decided to conceive their
first, second and third child with each other and have no other children outside of
the marriage.
10. History of Family of Origin of Both Parents: EO’s father is dead and his
mother lives in Delta State of Nigeria in Africa. Both EO’s parents are native of
Urobo, from Delta State of Nigeria. RO’s parents are alive, they leave in Lagos in
their own house and are still married. They sometimes come to U.S to visit their
children and grandchildren.
Environmental data (has 8 sub categories with bullet points)
11. Characteristics of Home: EO and RO lives in a Duplex on a large acre of land that
they own. It has five bedrooms and four bathrooms, well-furnished and neatly kept.
12.Characteristics of Neighborhood and Larger Community: The couple lives in
, Crowley, in Tarrant county, with a lot of other living homes in the community, which are
new and well-kept. The community consist of mostly middle-class citizens.
13. Family’s Geographical Mobility: The family own four SUV for transportation to work,
school and leisure times. The community have couple of grocery stores around,
Churches and there is a Methodist hospital about seven miles from the community. The
roads are motorable.
14. Family’s Associations and Transactions with Community: EO and RO are both
involve in a community outreach of feeding the less privileged and they give donations
to foundations to cloth the poor.
15.Communication Patterns Extent of Functional and Dysfunctional communication: EO
is very open with RO and is able to voice when he has something that is bothering him,
but states it sometimes take a while before he will speak up, but he does not allow it to
build too much to where he gets angry. RO is a soft-spoken person, very good with
communications and addresses issues calmly with EO. The couple is very open and
efficiently communicate with each other.
16. Characteristics of Communications within Family Subsystems: When there is a
concern between the children, they are encouraged to voice their concerns and handle
the problem together as a family. The parents encourage effective communication
between the children and between the parents and children.
17. Areas of Closed Communication: The wife was concern about why the husband
resulted to drinking excessively when they go out during weekends and the husband
refused to share his concerns with her until I interviewed them, he mentioned that the
social stigma of his cousin’s mental problem was a major concern to him and it bothers
him a lot. He was told of the benefits of taking his cousin to see a psychiatrist.
18. Power Structure: EO is the authoritative figure in the family and most of the
decision making is left up to him while RO depends on EO to make most of the
decisions. RO does not like deciding what direction the family is going and often leaves
it up to EO.
19. Role Structure: EO is characterizes as the husband, father, family provider,
authoritative figure and handy-man and see this as his role in the family. RO is the wife,
mother, family provider and homemaker. They have participated in these roles since
their marriage.
20. Family Values: The couple values family time and believes it is important to have a
lot of family involvement many times throughout the year and not just on holidays. The
couple value education and encourage their children to pursue and gain degrees that
will provide a steady employment. The couple also values their religion and finds it
important to be involved in their local church.
Name: Onoghe Philomena Aidoghie Date: 3/24/2020
Overview: Family Health Assessment
Please use your interview family for this assignment
You will use the Friedman Family Assessment Short Form to guide this assignment. This is a
useful instrument to give you an overview of family functioning, communication, strengths and
challenges.
Instructions:
1. Refine and include the interview family Genogram from Assignment Module 4-1.
2. Perform the Family Health Assessment using the modified Friedman Family Assess-
ment Short Form below to gather information and make observations of your interview
family.
3. You do not need to duplicate information as sections may overlap.
4. You may handwrite on the tool as you will be summarizing the areas of the Friedman
Family Assessment Short Form in this paper.
5. Using the using the modified Friedman Family Assessment Short Form below, identify
and elaborate on your findings for your interview family.
6. Write a minimum of one paragraph for each category and address as many of the
26 subcategories as possible for this assignment.
7. Under the Family Function category include a summary paragraph on your Module 2-1
assignment to discuss the Health Care Function sub category.
8. APA is not required. If you cite sources please add references per APA 6th edition. You
may use this document or a separate paper to complete this assignment.
Family Health Assessment
1. Interview Family Genogram refined from Assignment Module 4-1. This may be
placed at the end of the assignment.
,2. Write a minimum of one paragraph for each category and address as many
of the 26 subcategories such as Socializing function and Health care func-
tion.
Indentifying data (has 6 sub categories with bullet points)
1. Family Name: E.O, R.O, A.O, E.O, C.O
2. Family Genogram: E.O- Male, Husband, Police officer, Associate degree in
Political science and high school diploma.
R.O-Female, Wife, Sales representative in Amazon, Bachelor of Business Infor-
mation systems.
A.O-Female, Daughter, High school diploma
E.O-Male, Son, Academic diploma
C.O- Female, Daughter, Junior high school
3. Cultural Background: The family states they are of the Africa background from
Nigeria and can speak their native language as well as English.
4. Religious Background: The family stated that they are affiliated with the
Christian religion and they regularly attend the Redeem Christian Church
Of God.
5. Social Class Status: The family reports being classified as middle class. They are
financially stable and do not struggle to pay bills or put food on the table. The
family goes on yearly vacations and can travel to see family regularly.
, 6. Social Class Mobility: They family reports outings on weekends to eat dinner
or shop every couple of weekends. They own four different SUV for use, for
work, school and leisure time. The family spends leisure time going hurting and
fishing as well as other outdoor activities.
Developmental stage and history of the family (has 4 sub categories bullet points)
7. Family’s Present Developmental Stage: Middle age adults
8. Extent of Family Developmental Tasks Fulfillment: Family reports being
married, with little marital issues, due to the husband drinking problems, of which
he has seek for help. The couple go on dates at least once a month and now
spend every evening together after work.
9. Nuclear Family History: EO and RO have been married since 1998 and have
only been in a relationship with each other. They both decided to conceive their
first, second and third child with each other and have no other children outside of
the marriage.
10. History of Family of Origin of Both Parents: EO’s father is dead and his
mother lives in Delta State of Nigeria in Africa. Both EO’s parents are native of
Urobo, from Delta State of Nigeria. RO’s parents are alive, they leave in Lagos in
their own house and are still married. They sometimes come to U.S to visit their
children and grandchildren.
Environmental data (has 8 sub categories with bullet points)
11. Characteristics of Home: EO and RO lives in a Duplex on a large acre of land that
they own. It has five bedrooms and four bathrooms, well-furnished and neatly kept.
12.Characteristics of Neighborhood and Larger Community: The couple lives in
, Crowley, in Tarrant county, with a lot of other living homes in the community, which are
new and well-kept. The community consist of mostly middle-class citizens.
13. Family’s Geographical Mobility: The family own four SUV for transportation to work,
school and leisure times. The community have couple of grocery stores around,
Churches and there is a Methodist hospital about seven miles from the community. The
roads are motorable.
14. Family’s Associations and Transactions with Community: EO and RO are both
involve in a community outreach of feeding the less privileged and they give donations
to foundations to cloth the poor.
15.Communication Patterns Extent of Functional and Dysfunctional communication: EO
is very open with RO and is able to voice when he has something that is bothering him,
but states it sometimes take a while before he will speak up, but he does not allow it to
build too much to where he gets angry. RO is a soft-spoken person, very good with
communications and addresses issues calmly with EO. The couple is very open and
efficiently communicate with each other.
16. Characteristics of Communications within Family Subsystems: When there is a
concern between the children, they are encouraged to voice their concerns and handle
the problem together as a family. The parents encourage effective communication
between the children and between the parents and children.
17. Areas of Closed Communication: The wife was concern about why the husband
resulted to drinking excessively when they go out during weekends and the husband
refused to share his concerns with her until I interviewed them, he mentioned that the
social stigma of his cousin’s mental problem was a major concern to him and it bothers
him a lot. He was told of the benefits of taking his cousin to see a psychiatrist.
18. Power Structure: EO is the authoritative figure in the family and most of the
decision making is left up to him while RO depends on EO to make most of the
decisions. RO does not like deciding what direction the family is going and often leaves
it up to EO.
19. Role Structure: EO is characterizes as the husband, father, family provider,
authoritative figure and handy-man and see this as his role in the family. RO is the wife,
mother, family provider and homemaker. They have participated in these roles since
their marriage.
20. Family Values: The couple values family time and believes it is important to have a
lot of family involvement many times throughout the year and not just on holidays. The
couple value education and encourage their children to pursue and gain degrees that
will provide a steady employment. The couple also values their religion and finds it
important to be involved in their local church.
