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An eco map, also referred to as an eco graph, is a diagrammatic representation of an individual’s personal and social relationships with his/her environment (Bennett, 2011). The eco map was developed by Dr. Ann Hartman in 1975, and it documents the interaction of people, their families, and the external environment. An eco map enables one to not only see the connection, but to also visualize the quality of the interaction between people and their environments. Words such as “positive and nurturing” and “negative and wrought with stress” are used to describe the relationships between families and their external ...

Healthcare has been experiencing tremendous transformations in the recent past, and this can be attributed to the changing health needs of the people. To adapt to these changes, the models of care delivery, care services, and even the personnel, have changed as well. Also, there is an increasing need to provide patient-centered and culturally sensitive care, as cultural diversity continues to pose a challenge to the delivery of holistic care. One approach of delivering care services is by focusing on a family, identifying the specific health needs of such families, and developing plans of treatment that are focused on ...

Nursing assessment involves gathering of all the details and necessary information about a patient’s psychological, physiological, spiritual and sociological status. Genogram and ecomap are two tools of Calgary family assessment and intervention model which are helpful as the nursing assessment tools, which the paper is going to discuss one by one. Calgary Family Assessment Model is a nursing assessment tool that is generally used by the family nurses to know about the three fundamental areas of the family structure, the gender of all family members and their extended family relationships along with other internal and external factors (Wright & ...

{Author Name [first-name middle-name-initials last-name]} {Institution Affiliation [name of Author’s institute]} The present essay is based on an interview based evaluative session that is originated from eleven health patterns. The focused family is a Hispanic family of four members. The senior most member of the family is a sixty-seven-year-old mother who is living with his forty-year-old son John. John is married to Suzanne who is 36 years old. They have a son aged 11 years. All the people are living together following Christianity as their faith. John is suffering from obesity with a high BMI. He visited the ...

Introduction

With the various changes witnessed in the society’s demographic structure and delivery of the healthcare services, the nursing profession is largely recognizing the importance of the family in regard to the wellbeing as well as the health of individuals and families. Essentially, nursing practice involves caring for individuals as well as families whereby this requires nurses to have the relevant skills and knowledge to enable them work with families and foster healthy choices among individuals and families (Carlson & Carlson, 2014). As such, in order to establish healthy and collaborative relationships and foster the involvement of families in their ...

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Hailing from the Cuban community, and having lived in the U.S for a significantly long time, while I cab refer to myself as a Latino, I think today I reflect more as a multi-ethnic human who has been modeled from a combination of cultures, belief systems and values. I cannot actually day that I distinctly belong to any particular race or ethnicity especially from a cultural perspective. Having schooled in a setting where racial, ethnic and cultural diversity was highly visible I find myself as a person who has significantly parted ways with their original culture and adopted a ...

Two popular research methods adapted to be used in sociology are classified as quantitative and qualitative methods. Quantitative research methodology encompasses collecting numerical data to analyse a phenomenon. It also involves interpreting findings through statistical applications. The foundations of quantitative research design/methods emerge from the philosophical premises of realism; subjectivism and paradigm wars. From a sociological, perspective quantitative research methods focus on a systemic empirical approach in its investigation of social issues (Hunter & Leahey, 2008).

Qualitative research method investigates the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of a phenomenon without utilizing any mathematical tools. In this sense it is considered the inversion of ...

Herzing University

Introduction An assessment refers to a process that is use to gather and organize information. Family assessment achieves this through ways that enable a family to avoid and tackle problems. Family assessment aims fully to understand different family views in an unbiased manner. It also aims to understand family values, strengths and goals. An effective family assessment also aims to build a strong relationship between family members and in engaging families and helpers in exploration of goals, values and strengths in order to create mutual respect and trust (Thomlison, 2009).

Identifying Family Data

The family to be discussed here is a nuclear family that includes a father ...

Assignment

Richard W. Robins, Samuel D. Gosling, and Kenneth H. Craik Psychology is a science, and as such, it uses the scientific method to explore previously unknown areas, while elaborating written reports to share with fellow peers and the general community, in order to guarantee its own progress. An important component of a modern psychologist then, is the ability to accurately read and interpret the works of others. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to critically analyze the paper entitled An Empirical Analysis of Trends in Psychology (Robins, Gosling, & Craik, 1999).

Research Question

Introduction In the introduction section, the authors perform a ...