choose a family in your community and conduct a family health assessment addressing the questions below.
- Family composition.
Type of family, age, gender and racial/ethnic composition of the family.
- Roles of each family member. Who is the leader in the family? Who is the primary provider? Is there any other provider?
- Do family members have any existing physical or psychological conditions that are affecting family function?
- Home (physical condition) and external environment; living situation (this must include financial information). How the family support itself.
For example, working parents, children or any other member
- How adequately have individual family members accomplished age-appropriate developmental tasks?
- Do individual family member’s developmental states create stress in the family?
- What developmental stage is the family in? How well has the family achieve the task of this and previous developmental stages?
- Any family history of genetic predisposition to disease?
- Immunization status of the family?