"Family context" refers to the environment and circumstances in which a person's family life and relationships occur. It includes factors such as the dynamics between family members, the values and traditions they have, and the overall atmosphere at home.
Full definition
, Families, family life, and positive behavior support: Addressing the challenge of problem behavior
in family contexts (pp. 97 - 132).
Other treatments focus primarily on the social and
family context of sexual identity and seek to foster healthier interpersonal relationships.
The influence of
family context on the development and persistence of antisocial behavior.
Family context variables, including the presence of other child with a developmental disability, education level, and household income, on marital satisfaction were also examined.
This is where having a variety of backgrounds or specialties
regarding family contexts comes into play for the mental health professionals.
However, the latest AIHW Child Protection Report released in March this year contains some administrative data that highlights some of the violence that children experience
within family context.
Campbell, S.B. (1994) «Hard to manage preschool boys: Externalising behaviour, social competence, and
family context at two - year follow - up», Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 22, pp147 - 166
Attachment at early school age and developmental risk:
Examining family contexts and behavior problems of controlling — caregiving, controlling — punitive, and behaviorally disorganized children
I believe we can safely assume that favorable genotypes and loving
family contexts increase a child's opportunity to grow up with high - minded values and an increased capacity for loving his or her neighbor.
Instead, firstborn children vary immensely in their response to a sibling, and their response may depend on a complex interplay of their own personality, their own age, their parents» parenting style, their parents» relationship, and the
larger family context (Volling 2012).
«Most significantly, our findings reveal the importance of considering
family context when generalizing about the impacts of family instability,» Ryan says.
Analyses of variance revealed lower self - esteem among adolescents in two - parent / low - interest families than among adolescents in
other family contexts.
Relations
between family context factors, maternal depressive symptoms, and depressive symptoms in childhood and adolescence were examined, with a focus on early family relationship factors rarely available for analysis in longitudinal data sets.
The individual, increasingly emancipated psychologically from the
binding family context and social matrix of a neighborhood, imagines that he or she is floating somewhat indeterminately in society, blessed by a «freedom» unparalleled in previous ages.
Although the resources available for language education models will differ among schools, the stewardship of those resources takes place in a
strong family context, as Heil pointed out.
The artists of A Family Affair adopt a range of approaches, from documentary to fiction, to articulate visions of self within interpersonal and
historical family contexts as well as broader frameworks of race, class and gender, often collaborating with family members to realize their art.
Indicators of
family context reflecting family stress theory diminished the observed association between family change and child behavior to a greater extent than did those related to family boundary ambiguity.
Grandparents can model what healthy family relationships look like and their involvement also helps children see family relationships in the wider,
extended family context.
PMTO is a parent training intervention that can be used in
family contexts including two biological parents, single - parent, re-partnered, grandparent - led, reunification, and foster families.
Implications for clinical and medical practice suggest that, in the potentially
stressful family context of diabetes management, adolescents» perceptions of maternal acceptance may provide an important buffer that supports adolescent well - being.
To divorce collaboratively states that the needs of the children and their
transitioning family context deserve to be treated with respect, care, loving kindness... and nothing less.
Such a high percentage of working parents makes the performance of roles in both the work and
family context crucial for most adults living in Chinese cities, and a concern for their wellbeing as they negotiate this balance in practice is timely.
These general family factors reflect the
overarching family context within which adolescents develop; thus, these factors may be powerful determinants of weight and related behaviors.
Hard - to - manage preschool boys: Externalizing behavior, social competence, and
family context at two - year follow - up
Attachment at early school age and developmental risk:
Examining family context and behavior problems of controlling - caregiving, controlling - punitive, and behaviorally disorganized children
Despite the increasing number of studies using this innovative observational tool in
different family contexts (Frascarolo et al., 2005; Lavadera et al., 2011; Simonelli et al., 2012; Mazzoni et al., 2015), data regarding families with adolescent offspring are still very limited.
Implications of the findings are discussed in terms of treating youth depressive symptoms with a consideration of the
broader family context, including parental and interparental functioning.
Ryan added, «Most significantly, our findings reveal the importance of
considering family context when generalizing about the impacts of family instability.»
, Families and positive behavior support: Addressing problem behaviors
in family contexts (pp. 417 - 437).
Accordingly, AF - CBT targets individual caregiver and child characteristics, as well as the
larger family context.
Early childhood development in
family contexts of risk; Effects of early life stress on adult psychopathology and close relationships; Family relationships across the transition to parenthood; Biological mechanisms underlying links between family risk and psychopathology in childhood and adulthood; Evaluation of evidence based practices embedded in community settings