Question

• Discuss why it is important for the APRN to explore the individual stage of development of each family member when analyzing a family’s response to an illness event. Consider your population of interest or study.

Answer 1

Family as a whole is as important as the person associated the most with an illness event. The response of an individual and family can be reflected from close examination of each developme stages of every individuals in the family.

There are various factors like cultural, social, financial factors which influences the behavioral patterns of a family. The influence of these factors in each developmental stages of a family and it's individuals shapen the composit behavior of family. These factors thus have an indirect amd direct effect on healthcare and illness events in a family.

An individuals response to illness events are determined by all these factors mentioned above and then to have different effect on different stages of development of family and that of the individual.

The character shift in individuals during adolescence and childhood is immense and by closely monitoring such stages of family like child bearing stage or teenage stage will be helpful in understanding and predicting responses and solve any problem in it.

The behavioral patterns are also influenced by society and peers or closely related people in during each stages. They tends to infuence on behavior of family and individuals in it during each stage.

Similarly any critical events like economic crisis, loss of family member etc during any stages of development of a family can be helpful in predicting aftermath and gives reason to visible behavioral patterns and help them solving or tackling those issue for a better health status.

Like I mentioned influences on factors during each stages of development on individual persons in the family have a huge collective impact on response to an illness event as a whole and in individual levels.

Thus, it is important to explore individual stages of development od each family member when analazing a family's response to an illness event. This helps us in understanding and predicting response patterns and to deduct the best plans of healthcare management for each family and it's individuals.