Unit 11 Supporting children and families D1) Describe how two different types of social care setting provide support for children and their parent/families Parenting group provide a lot of support they are designed to raise awareness about family issues and they help to build a better relationship between parents and their children’s. At parenting groups they give support to the parents with the concern they have. They help to give better communication skills and they encourage the parents to ask their child how they are feeling. A parenting group can provide families and children with the support, education and advice you need to help you overcome these problems. Parenting groups have experienced staff what will work with the parents and with the child/children helping them to develop strategies to improve your situation.
Unit CYPOP 14 – Support Children & Young people to have positive relationships L.O 1.1- Identify the different relationships children and young people may have Parents Carers Siblings Family Friendships Emotional/sexual Acquaintances Extended family Healthcare providers Social workers Teachers Childminders Neighbours. L.O 1.2 – Explain the importance of positive relationships for development and wellbeing Positive relationships are important as they will help children feel more secure and happy in the setting. If the child feels secure they are less likely to have any separation anxiety and more likely to get involved in play and other activities which will help their overall development. A child who has positive relationships is more likely to talk more and develop their language skills. They will also be less likely to show unwanted behaviour because the carer will be able to recognise their needs and meet them.
Outline and assess functionalist and new right views on the family This essay aims to explore the views of the functionalist and new rights approach on the family. Functionalists argue that the family is the most important institution in society as it benefits both the individual and society. They have the most positive view on the family, and state that it performs vital functions for the maintenance of society. Their main emphasis is on the nuclear family which is the stereotypical family of married, heterosexual parents with children - they tend to ignore any other family types. The approach presents the family as a family isolated from wider kinships because of the mobility required by labour markets in industrial societies.
They also believe that in a nuclear family, norms and values will be taught to each family member making them behave in a way society expects them to. Parsons, who is a functionalist, believes that the family unquestionably benefits individuals and society. He sees nothing wrong with the family being patriarchal as they are the breadwinners and security of the family. He uses the idea of the “warm
CU1522 - Explain why positive relationships with children and young people are important and how these are built and maintained. Positive relationships with children are important as they help the child to become a more positive person and make them feel safe and secure. These are built and maintained by working closely with them on a daily basis taking the time to listen to them and be a positive role model, by setting boundaries and challenging negative behaviour but also more importantly praising positive behaviour. CU1522 1.1 Below is a case study about Aimee Aimee is 15 years old. Her parents have recently divorced and she is missing her dad.
In Talcott Parsons functionalist model of the family there is a clear division of labour between the two spouse, ‘Instrumental’ and ‘Expressive’ roles.. Talcott Parsons states that the husband has an instrumental role, geared towards achieving success at work so that he can provide for the family financial, he is the breadwinner. The wife however has an expressive role, geared towards primary socialisation of the children and meeting the family’s emotional needs. The wife is seen as the homemaker, full time housewife rather than a wage earner. Although some politicians and the New right share this view with Talcott Parsons, others have criticised Parsons for e.g. Michael Young and Peter Wilmott (1962) who argue that men are now taking a greater share of domestic tasks and more wives are becoming wage earners.
As Ehrenreicht says the Family is the place where we go for comfort and to relax, but it is that very notion of family being a safe haven makes it all that much... In my opinion the ideal family is a group of people that have emotional, blood, or legal ties. The ideal family to me includes a monogamous marriage between two adults who are socially and financial dependent. These adults should also care for young including biological children, adopted children, or mentoring for disadvantaged children. The parents should teach the children, and also provide proper education.
Type of Premise: Prescriptive premise Explanation: A prescriptive premise is a premise in an argument containing a value statement. (Judith Boss, 2011) 1 is a prescriptive premise because the value statement of how marriage is a bond between a man and woman is recognized by society as what a typical “American family” should be. 3 is a prescriptive premise because the value statement that marriage is not based on reproducing is true. Marriage is based on the union of two people who love each other and want to spend their lives with each other. Though having offspring is why marriage is created marriage should be based on the basis of how two people love one another.
Assess sociological explanations of the nature and extent of family diversity today. Family diversity is the idea that there are a range of different family types, rather than a single dominant one like the nuclear family. It is associated with the post-modernists idea that in today’s society increasing choice about relationships is creating greater family diversity. The modernist view sees society as having a fairly fixed, predictable structure. The modernists see the nuclear family as being the best as it performs certain essential functions.
E1: There are many parts to the role of the practitioner when they are meeting children’s learning needs some of these are working with families, providing a positive environment, and the children wellbeing. Working with families”, you should always make sure that you are approachable and friendly towards all parents so that they are happy about leaving their child with you” (Tassoni, 1999, pg. 315). This helps to meet children’s learning needs as the child’s primary career has a better understanding of the child and may be able to support the child when they are at home. I have seen this at placement where they run parent consolation’s twice a term, and if the teacher needs to see the primary career, they arrange meeting.