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A 15 page paper performing a family assessment within the guidelines of the Calgary Family Assessment Model (CFAM). The focus is diabetes prevention for a family member with a strong family history of diabetes. The paper describes family members, family structure, functional structure and other items required by the CFAM model. If the intervention is successful, then all family members will be able to identify the course of diabetes as it is currently understood. They will make better dietary choices and will come to see exercise as a tool for long-term health. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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15 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSnursFamDiab.rtf
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is a one common in todays society, a blended family of previously-divorced adults and children from both previous marriages all living together under the same roof. The adults are
baby boomers, and the family lives in East Tennessee, an area that appears to be striving to lead the country in obesity and diabetes (Better Health, n.d.). This paper
will assess the family according to the Calgary Family Assessment Model (CFAM). Family Health Theory or Model The Calgary Family Assessment Model (CFAM)
provides a method of systematically describing and assessing any specific family. It examines both structural and functional patterns of the family, and highlights that fact that "illness is a
family affair" (King, 2002, p. 292). It also assesses the developmental dimension of family life (The Calgary Family Assessment Model, 2001). Within
each of these categories in which the family is assessed is a number of subcategories, which taken together "comprise a menu of possibilities for learning about a family" (The Calgary
Family Assessment Model, 2001). Of course not all choices will be applicable to every family; the clinicians judgment is a primary factor determining success of family assessment using the
CFAM. Structural Assessment Internal Structure The family as it exists today came into being in May 2004 when Joe and Jeannie were married.
Children have come and gone as the mother of Joes children has in turn driven out a teenage daughter and then accepted her back again after her then-preteen son
pleaded to live with his father. At one time there were two children from each previous marriage living in the house the family shares; currently there are only Jeannies
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