Title: Determine the family’s influence on the individual’s ability to develop healthy and unhealthy relationships outside of the family.
Course: Individual Development (19260-36) > Section: Analyzing the Family’s Role in Development of Relationships

Determination should include

- the direct correlation between family relationships (strengths and deficiencies) and relationships developed outside of the family
- family's worldview (e.g., socioeconomic, religious, political)
- family functioning.

Process/Skill Questions:

Thinking

- What factors have the biggest influence on your needs?
- How does your family’s worldview influence your personal worldview? How does this affect your relationships outside of the family?
- What are some personal characteristics that can adversely affect your relationships in the community or in the workplace?

Communication

- What is the importance of communication in your family?
- How can communication within the family affect relationships outside the family?
- What are benefits of improved family communication?
- How does family structure affect the way in which one communicates?

Leadership

- Who are your role models? What leadership skills are needed to achieve family goals?
- What actions or conditions might create challenges to achieving good leadership in the family?

Management

- What can you do to improve the well-being of individual family members and your relationships?
- How can the actions of one family member affect others?
- What community resources are available to support families?