FAML 430 Exam 4 Questions and
Answers Fall 2025-2026 Update
100% Correct -BYU
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Serving different from helping or fixing. ANSWER -Serving: drawn from experiences'
relationship between equals; wholeness of us serves the wholeness of others; the
healing/reward is mutual; another person is NOT broken
Helping: based on inequality; see them as needier than you are; diminishes the other
person's self-worth; incurs debt; other person is broken; fixing is judgmental
Drawing on Remen's distinction between helping, fixing and serving, how would you
recommend a community program addressing poverty (i.e., food bank, homeless
shelter) serve those in need? How might they change their attitude/approach?.
ANSWER -In food banks and shelters, they tend to separate themselves from those
they are serving food to (always standing behind a table or something). They can
change by sitting with them and conversing with them - treating them as normal
people, because that is what they are.
Instead of being in control, they can serve better by letting the others have some
control. Get their opinions on things and how they should be done.
They can have their missions more focuses on the wholeness of the people that they
serve, and that volunteers should see them as their equals, because that is what they
are.
traditional program approach. ANSWER -provides support and education to
individual families or small group of families in order to increase their well-being.
, Family professionals take primary responsibility for defining the problem and
developing the curriculum or intervention
does not provide the tools to engage families as change agents in their communities.
family and democracy approach. ANSWER -offers a framework for working with
families as active citizens in communities.
Have a public work model: shows human beings as producers and co-creators of the
world and stresses the importance of 'public' life and democratic relational power
(practice-oriented approach to community engagement.
Strengthening families must be done by the families themselves.
7 principles of the Families and Democracy model. ANSWER -o Strengthening
families in our time must be done mostly by families themselves, working
democratically in local communities
o The greatest untapped resource for strengthening families is the knowledge,
wisdom, and lived experience of families and their communities
o Families must be engaged as producers and contributors to their communities, and
not just as clients or consumers of services
Answers Fall 2025-2026 Update
100% Correct -BYU
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Serving different from helping or fixing. ANSWER -Serving: drawn from experiences'
relationship between equals; wholeness of us serves the wholeness of others; the
healing/reward is mutual; another person is NOT broken
Helping: based on inequality; see them as needier than you are; diminishes the other
person's self-worth; incurs debt; other person is broken; fixing is judgmental
Drawing on Remen's distinction between helping, fixing and serving, how would you
recommend a community program addressing poverty (i.e., food bank, homeless
shelter) serve those in need? How might they change their attitude/approach?.
ANSWER -In food banks and shelters, they tend to separate themselves from those
they are serving food to (always standing behind a table or something). They can
change by sitting with them and conversing with them - treating them as normal
people, because that is what they are.
Instead of being in control, they can serve better by letting the others have some
control. Get their opinions on things and how they should be done.
They can have their missions more focuses on the wholeness of the people that they
serve, and that volunteers should see them as their equals, because that is what they
are.
traditional program approach. ANSWER -provides support and education to
individual families or small group of families in order to increase their well-being.
, Family professionals take primary responsibility for defining the problem and
developing the curriculum or intervention
does not provide the tools to engage families as change agents in their communities.
family and democracy approach. ANSWER -offers a framework for working with
families as active citizens in communities.
Have a public work model: shows human beings as producers and co-creators of the
world and stresses the importance of 'public' life and democratic relational power
(practice-oriented approach to community engagement.
Strengthening families must be done by the families themselves.
7 principles of the Families and Democracy model. ANSWER -o Strengthening
families in our time must be done mostly by families themselves, working
democratically in local communities
o The greatest untapped resource for strengthening families is the knowledge,
wisdom, and lived experience of families and their communities
o Families must be engaged as producers and contributors to their communities, and
not just as clients or consumers of services
