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A 4 pages research paper that discusses Family Systems Theory (FST), which acknowledges that the reality that the lives of individual client/patients are combined with and affected by the social systems in which they interact. These systems encompass both the family and the communities in which families exist. FST is used primarily within the context of family counseling and therapy, it has also been successfully employed in order to comprehend problems with a variety of settings, such as those faced by students. A fundamental concept in FST is that the interconnected members of a family influence each other in “predictable and recurring ways,” and these can be understood by considering “communication and interaction patterns,” as well as issues of “separateness and connectedness, loyalty and independence, and adaptation to stress in the context” within the overall framework of “the whole as opposed to the individual in isolation” (Christian, 2006). Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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the social systems in which they interact. These systems encompass both the family and the communities in which families exist. FST is used primarily within the context of family counseling
and therapy, it has also been successfully employed in order to comprehend problems with a variety of settings, such as those faced by students. A fundamental concept in FST is
that the interconnected members of a family influence each other in "predictable and recurring ways," and these can be understood by considering "communication and interaction patterns," as well as issues
of "separateness and connectedness, loyalty and independence, and adaptation to stress in the context" within the overall framework of "the whole as opposed to the individual in isolation" (Christian, 2006).
In order to address fully the needs of their clients, advanced practice nurses (APNs) must discern both family strengths and weaknesses that
affect they ways in which individuals interact within families and also the ways in which families interact with their community. In general, FST recognizes that what "impacts one member (of
a family), potentially impacts the entire family" (Ayvazoglu, Oh and Kozub, 2006, p. 237). FST looks specifically at characteristics of the family such as "boundaries, roles, rules, hierarchy, climate and
equilibrium" (Christian, 2006). Each of these features lies within their own continuum. For instance, while all families establish rules, some have a great many rules while others are more lenient
and are therefore at the other end of this continuum (Christian, 2006). As this suggests, family systems are complex and include a wide variety of patterns of social interaction and
reciprocity. By adopting a family system approach to nursing practices, APNs can take advantage of the utility of a comprehensive and empirically proven theoretical framework that has been shown
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