Duvall Family Case Study

I will be discussing about Duvall’s Family Stages, and Tasks, stage 6: launching families. Some of these developmental tasks must be completed for the successful transition from this stage. These are the following developmental tasks, reorganization of family structure and readjustment of marital relationship-relating to each other rather as marital partners rather than parents. Also, to assist ageing, and ill parents of husband and wife. The children become independent while still maintaining ties with parents. For example, I can relate to some of these developmental tasks because my mother and father are in the age range of (50s to 60s) and their roles as a parent has changes to partner. They go to church. Mostly at the end of the year, they …show more content…
When there was a family reunion celebration, they would take her because she is the anthem of the family. Beside, my older brother had moved out of the home, and he has recently got married. He and his wife still maintain family ties by paying visits whenever there is a family reunion or other occasion. My sister moved out of the home with her husband. She gave birth to a baby girl, and my mother is helping to babysit her child because she has a job. I moved out of the home because I wanted to be independent, but they supported me all the way. I still pay them a visit whenever we have a family reunion, and they are happy to see me.
My family genogram has given me a basic description about the risks and the diseases that runs through my family. The diseases that run through my family lineage are hypertension, diabetes, sickle cells. Most of these diseases are multifactorial, it has a genetic, and environmental components attached to them. On one occasion, I went to a family reunion, I taught family members to start some health improvement techniques, such as primary prevention through lifestyle modification, set up a separate individual, family evaluation …show more content…
In addition, the project has made me able to stratify the disease processes, risk factors, signs and symptoms, health promotion and treatment. It was beneficially in facilitating learning because it was precise about the narration of hypertension. This teaching project gave a chronological explanation about hypertension, which was facilitated in a learning manner. And most parts of it, my family member were welcoming about the information which they have learned they were pleased and told me that they would try to incorporate this learning materials into their life because they want to live longer. However, the genogram has been a positive contribution to explain my family history. It portrays how inheritance of diseases runs through a family and the risk about individual family members passes on the genes to the next generation. The result, it made me aware about my risks of hypertension and diabetes which is significant to me. The project helped me know about the health promotion which I would apply to my everyday