Identification should include heredity (e.g., inherited traits) and environment (e.g., acquired traits).
Process/Skill Questions:
Thinking
- How can family dynamics influence school performance?
- What issues can have a positive effect on the family? What issues can have a negative effect?
- Which of your traits should you accept as they are? Why?
- Which would you like to change? Why?
- What factors influence your attitudes?
Communication
- What or who influences the way you dress, eat, or behave?
- How can positive role models influence your choices?
Leadership
- What skills do family members need to become leaders?
- What is the relationship between the changes you are experiencing and your behavior?
- What traditions and social skills contribute to respectful and healthy relationships?
Management
- Of the factors that affect human development (e.g., nutrition, exercise, gender, life experience, environment, position in the family, emotions, heredity, race, and nationality), which can you control? Which would you find the easiest to control? The most difficult? Why?
- How can each family member contribute to the family structure?