1) If
intervention is merited now, why, and what's required?
2)
Who referred this client, and why
-
self, family court, or someone else?
3)
Nuclear
and extended family-system
and
and (c) client-adult awareness of these. This includes assessing for
significant
and alliances between any extended-family members;
4)
Committed-couple and
nuclear-family
strengths,
including the (a) degree (none >
minor > moderate > major) and (b) impact of family-members'
spiritual faith on their nurturance
level (none > little > moderate > high);
5)
Adult
awareness of (a) family-nurturance factors,
and (b) historic and recent nuclear-family
nurturance levels
(very low to very high)
6)
Adult
(a) clarity and (b) agreement on,
and (c) usage of long-range
(a family mission or vision)
7)
(a) significant co-parent
,
(b) adults' awareness of the wounds and their
and (c) any efforts to
them
so far
8)
Recent individual family-adult
, as judged by
their actions, not their words
9)
Client-adult awareness of
(a) surface and primary
and (b) first-order and second-order systemic
and motivation to use
these awarenesses in daily affairs, and model and teach their kids about
them;
10) Adult and family
communication and
problem-solving (a) knowledge,
(b)
and (c)
- in general, and in conflicts;
11) Co-parents'
(a) awareness of, and (b) ability to effectively resolve (a)
(b)
and
(c)
12)
(a) Client-adult awareness of
healthy-grieving
basics,
(b) their family's recent
(c) any
incomplete or
in adults and kids,
and (d) any efforts to free that up
13)
(a) Past and
present
in co-parents' family trees,
(b) the status of each one (active, in pseudo recovery, or in true recovery), (c)
significant impacts on the family, and if appropriate, (d) the family adults'
knowledge of addiction and recovery basics
and resources;
14)
Mates'
(a) awareness of and
(b) ability to
their primary relationship
(problem-solve)
effectively
15) (a) The status of
any child custody, visitation, and financial-support arrangements (verbal or
legal / effective or not / cooperative or conflictual). and (b) If there is a
legal
does it
increase or decrease the family's nurturance level?
16)
(a) Cause/s and (b) status of past and current
legal actions among family members - e.g.
divorce settlements, custody battles, contested parenting agreements, and/or
orders of protection.
17) (a) Effectiveness of
the family's
(b) co-parents' motivations to use it, and (c) practical options to improve
these.
18) Co-parents'
knowledge of kids' developmental and
family-adjustment needs, and
each child's
status with them
19)
Clarity, compatibility, and viability of
co-parents' and kids'
20)
Nature and impact of any
special nuclear-family stressors, including child visitation, custody, and
financial support
21)
The degree of
current co-parent, marital, household, and nuclear-family
balances
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