| A | B |
|---|
| physical needs | maintaining wellness of the human body and avoiding illness |
| Maslow's Hierarchy Of Human Needs | A theory that arranges human needs in order of their priority with lower-level needs being met before higher needs can be recognized and fulfilled |
| Safety and Securtiy needs | keeping family members protectecd from harm within and from outside the home |
| Love and acceptance | Having a sense of belonging and unconditional love, being wanted and included, as in a group of friends |
| Esteem Needs | Feeling good about yourself and accepting a realistic view of your strengths and weakness |
| Self-Actualization Needs | To become what we are capable of becoming |
| Youthful Perspective | Seeing the world through the eyes of a child or young person |
| Personal Growth | Learning about oneself |
| Emotional Fulfillment | Somthing that is deeply satisfying, such as a child's smile to a parent |
| Sense of growth | A feeling of a job well done--- for example, the pride of a parent when children live independently and give somthing back to the world |
| Family continuation | Carrying on the family tradition and values |
| New responsibilities | Different tasks that parents will have to do due to having a child |
| Lifestyles changes | changes in the way you spend your daily schedule due to child being added to family |
| Emotional adjustments | changes in person's attitudes and perspectives--- or examples, worries and fears parents have after a child is born |
| Changes in relationships | changes in the feelings that a couple may have for each other after a child is born due to added pressures |
| Employment | having a job or career and responsibilities that go with it |
| family | individuals related to each other biologically or legally |
| parent | caregiver that has legal responsibility for a child |
| healthy relationship | characterized by respect, sharing, trust and support between two people |
| beginning family | a family of young adults who marry; newlyweds |
| parenting family | a developing family, with children growing into middle childhood and early teens |
| launching family | a family with middle-age parents and children leaving home for college, etc |
| mid-years family | a pre-retirement family, no children at home |
| aging family | a family of elderly adults, usually retired |
| variations | families that do not follow the"typical" life cycle stages |
| nuclear | includes husband, wife, and one or more of their biological children |
| extended | includes all relatives in a family, such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousing s |
| blended | includes married couple, each spouse's children from previous relationships, and any children they have together |
| adoptive | parents and one or more children that are premanently and legally placed; these familes may be nuclear, single-parent, blended or extended family structures |
| foster | a family unit that serves as a substitute family for a child these families may be a nuclear, single-parent, blended or extended family structures |
| transiton period | a period of changing from one time in life to another |
| authority figure | the person in charge of a family |
| mutual figure | equal support from each parent in the family |
| "instant family" | children that come along with a marriage in a blended family |
