Family Resource Management

Assess your ability to apply family resource management concepts to family case study. Use the case study of “The
Garcia Family.” Write a paper discussing the resource management issues of the family. They have experienced shifts in demands and resources
because of stressor events (such as health issues). Be sure to address all of the items listed in the grading rubric (see Canvas) in order to receive
maximum credit for your work. You will have the opportunity to see your grade and then decide whether to revise and resubmit. If you choose to
revise and resubmit, revisions due May 13 and must include a description of what has been updated/added. If you choose to revise and
resubmit, your new paper grade will replace your previous paper grade.
Learning Objective: The purpose of this assignment is to demonstrate that you understand and can synthesize the Family Resource Management
(FRM) vocabulary and concepts we have been discussing in this course. Use definitions with FRM terms. For example, you could say something
like: “Social income is a good or service provided by someone in your social network. In this case study, social income was needed when…”
Formatting: The paper should be typed, double spaced, page numbered. There should be an introduction and a conclusion. The paper must be a
minimum of 8 pages (most papers that receive an “A” are more than 8 pages, 10-14 pages is common). You do not need a title page or a formal
reference page. If you use a direct quote from a reading cite your source in the body of the text using (author last name, year, page). For example,
(Moore & Asay, 2012, p. 133). You do not need to reference the power point slides.
Include:
• Introduction: Briefly introduce the family. You do not need to mention every family member individually. Give an overall description of the
family and a couple of the things that they are struggling with that you plan to talk more about in your paper. Use some general resource
management terms such as values, goals and resources.
• Demands: Discuss needs, wants, and goals (from the family’s perspective). You do not need to mention every family member. Choose at
least three specific family members to describe. Do individual family members have different ideas about needs versus wants? Be sure to
be clear about the difference between needs and wants. Do they have different goals? Are these goals life-time, long-term, short-term, or
intermediate? What prevented the family as a whole or individual family members from reaching goals. Describe at least one between
person goal conflict and one within person goal conflict.
• Values: Choose at least three specific family members and list at least five values for each of them using one-word ideals. Describe at
least one between person value conflict and at least one within person value conflict. Label different kinds of values using words like
intrinsic/extrinsic, absolute/relative, etc. Discuss how values affect resource management in this family. For example, what decisions did
they make based on their values?
• Resources: Use the resource table to discuss the most important resources they did or did not have and how they used the resources that they
had available to them. Be sure to touch on a wide range of different types of resources not just money income. Could they have used their
resources differently to achieve a better outcome? Discuss different kinds of capital. Were there resources they should have developed but
did not? Do not just list all of the resources, try to synthesize. Look for patterns. Include an analysis of utility, what did they use well and
what they could have done better. Were there things that they could not develop or did not have access to because of structural inequality?
• Decision making: How did the family make decisions? Give at least one specific example of when the family used (or should have used)
social, economic and technical decision making (at least one example of each). If they should have done a certain type of decision making
and did not, you can use that as an example.
• Communication, power, planning/implementing/evaluating. Use at least 5 specific terms from the communication/power class materials
and 5 specific terms from the planning/ implementing/evaluating class materials to talk about these concepts. You may use terms and
concepts from the book Scarcity as part of your discussion of planning and implementing. Questions to ask yourself might include–how did
power affect resource management in the case? Describe the family’s communication using specific class concepts? Was there planning and
implementing? Why or why not?
• Eco-systemic context-What external forces are acting on this family system and affecting resource management? Did structural inequality or
systemic bias affect opportunities that were available (or not available) to them? Talk about the ways that this family system interacted with
other systems—for example, immigration, health care, social welfare, education, employment, etc… Use specific material from Weeks 10
and 11 in this section of the paper. For example, use family systems theory and/or Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model.
• Conclusion-Summarize you conclusions about this family system. What worked/what did not and why? What were some of this family’s
strengths and limitations? If you were going to work with this family, what steps might you take? What would you have them concentrate on
first?
Some of the terms to use in your paper
• Management
• Resourcefulness
• Goals (Life-time, long-term, intermediate, short-term)
• Goal conflicts (between person and within person)
• Standards
• Behavioral objectives (behavior, conditions, standards)
• Opportunity cost
• Proactive resource management/Reactive resource management
• Characteristics of resources: Tangibility, Utility, Universal/Particularistic
• Human resources—individual (biological, cognitive, affective, psychomotor, temporal), interpersonal, family
• Economic resources—income (money, non-money, psychic and social income), wealth (physical, financial, human), employee benefits, credit
• Community resources (social organizations, community facilities/services, state and national governments)
• Values: Instrumental/Terminal, Intrinsic/Extrinsic, Absolute/Relative
• Value conflicts (within person and between person)
• Social, economic and technical decision making
• Decision situation, decision makers
• planning, implementing—label steps
• Power (orchestration and implementation), Principle of least interest, Social Exchange Theory
• Sender—Receiver, Message, Encoding, Decoding, Channel/Medium, Noise
• Intersubjectivity/interactivity
• Consensual families, Pluralistic families, Protective families, Laissez-faire families
• Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model, family systems theory,