Family Learning and Video Games

Author(s):  
Sinem Siyahhan ◽  
Elisabeth Gee

The family environment is an important social context where learning takes place for adults and children of all ages, and perhaps the only context in which participation occurs over a life-span. In this social context, playing games has always been one of many activities family members do individually and together that engages them in learning. In this chapter, we offer a broad perspective on learning and discuss how games of all sorts can provide opportunities for learning, and how families can take more advantage of these potential learning experiences.

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (Supplement_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
ERWIN Erwin ◽  
ELLY Nurachmah ◽  
TUTI Herawati

Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: None. Background The client"s condition for heart failure requires environmental support to be able to be confident and able to carry out activities according to the directions given while the patient is undergoing treatment in the hospital, but sometimes in the client"s time period at home there will be situations where patients may experience complaints or changes in conditions that can affect his cardiovascular status. Purpose this study is conducted to identify psychological and social problems and needs of heart failure clients with a qualitative approach of observation, invite individuals or families to participate, motivate individuals to develop the potential to maintain optimal health. In addition, this study was conducted to assess the need and effectiveness of the practice of consulting for heart failure nursing in hospital outpatients Method qualitative observation approach in nursing consulting practice using steps of the nursing process consisting of an assessment of physical, psychological and social conditions and client needs, formulating problems, making plans and taking care of actions in accordance with the problems that exist by nurses in the outpatient clinic at home sick. Results Clients who came to the outpatient clinic had various  psychological and social problems. From the observations and interviews it was found that psychological and social problems were the most common causes. Psychosocial problems arise due to the client himself, life companion (husband or wife) and family members who live together. So that the family system to support clients with heart failure is not awakened. Health education and promotion to clients, life companions, and family members of heart failure clients who live at home are needed when the client controls health to maintain the client"s health support system while at home. All clients and families in this study stated that the practice of nursing consultations in hospital outpatients is very helpful for clients and families to improve the situation they face. Conclusion the practice of nursing consultations can identify the problems and needs of clients and families. Strengthening the client support system for heart failure at home is needed so that psychological and social problems can be reduced when the client is in the family environment. Nursing consultation practices at outpatient hospitals are needed to help motivate clients and families in maintaining and increasing care and support for clients who suffer from heart failure while at home. Psychosocial problems The client felt anxious, lack of attention, complained sleeping difficulty, often forgot taking medicine, and forgot managing fluid intakeThe client,while at home, was fastidious and wanted to many, was difficult to be told or managed, was always suspicious with their spouse"s activity easily got angry or temperamental, the client"s child felt annoyed because the client acted annoying, the client"s spouse felt annoyed because the client was impatient and temperamentalPsychological, and social problems in heart failure patients


2021 ◽  
Vol LIII (1) ◽  
pp. 84-87
Author(s):  
Alexandra Yu. Kivorkova ◽  
Andrey G. Soloviev

Aim. The aim of the paper was the substantiation the directions of correction the emotional state of the family environment of the family members of dangerous professions on the basis of biobehavioral therapy using biofeedback technology. Methods. 47 women were examined (29.34.7 years) wives of employees whose professional activities are related to solving professional problems in extreme conditions. The hardware and software complex BOS-Pulse with the Pulse module with game plots, Multipsychometer was used. According to the pulse recorded by the photoplethysmographic method, a spectral analysis of heart rate variability was carried out using a program for processing data from game biocontrol. The control of efficiency was carried out according to the functional parameters of the cardiovascular system and indicators of the color choice test. Results. By the end of the training, all women had mastered the skill of increasing RR-intervals. The value of the stress index of Baevskys regulatory systems during the course of biobehavioral therapy decreased from 73.217.8 to 56.825.4, the index of vegetative balance from 132.729.2 to 84.545.2. According to the test of color choices, a pronounced deepening of positive tendencies in terms of psychological indicators was noted, which, in general, was expressed in a significant decrease in anxiety and fatigue with a simultaneous increase in working capacity and indicators of the vegetative coefficient. Conclusions. Correctional trainings with the use of biocontrol technology led to an improvement in personal adaptive characteristics, the formation and consolidation of the conditioned reflex skill of self-regulation and a corrective behavioral stereotype that promotes activation of the bodys reserve capabilities. The effective behavioral strategies of self-regulation developed by women contributed to the training of productive techniques for counteracting stressors associated with the specifics of husbands professional activities and, accordingly, with the family microclimate.


Author(s):  
Michael T Compton ◽  
Beth Broussard

As discussed in previous chapters, psychosis often first begins in late adolescence or young adulthood. Thus, many people who experience a first episode of psychosis live with and rely on their families for support. In addition to providing a place to live and other basic support, families are key in the recovery process because they love and care for the person with the illness and they want to help. Family members may need to provide emotional support, arrange for treatment, and find new ways to cope with the signs and symptoms of psychosis or other problems that result from the illness. Families are a very important part of the team that is necessary to properly manage psychosis. In fact, now that more effective antipsychotic medicines and psychosocial treatments are available, many people with psychosis often can receive treatment in the community and with their families rather than having extended stays in the hospital. Families play a major role in helping their loved ones manage their illness. As a result, it is vital to create a supportive family environment by reducing stress, coping, and communicating effectively. This chapter focuses on three essential domains of a supportive family environment: reducing stress, enhancing coping, and ensuring effective communication. First, we begin by defining …Families play a major role in helping their loved ones manage their illness. As a result, it is vital to create a supportive family environment by reducing stress, coping, and communicating effectively.… stress and the ways that the early stages of psychosis can lead to stress. We discuss three ways to reduce stress in the family as well as three related ways the family can help the patient to reduce stress. Second, we define coping and talk about the importance of coping with a stressful event, like an episode of psychosis in a family member. We offer three ways of coping effectively for family members as well as three ways that patients can practice effective coping. Third, we address the value of good communication and how the symptoms of psychosis can sometimes interfere with productive communication patterns. We then provide eight points of advice for effective communication within the family.


Kadera Bahasa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-52
Author(s):  
Ali Kusno

The golden age of kid was a sensitive period. During this period, the kid was specially receiving the stimulant from theenvironment. The period of kid’s language development was various, dependent on the characteristics. This study relatedto the function development of kid’s language. The example case to the girl 2,5 years old, Azza Aqila Jihan Syuasabitha(Jihan). Jihan was growing in the family environment and child caring. The kid’s language was developing quickly. Theusage of language was devoted to Jihan’s interaction with family members. Collecting data method in this study was theobservation. The subject in this study was the child’s author. This study aimed to describe the development of Jihan’sspeech as child 2,5 years old based on the language function grouping according to M.A.K Halliday. The result of thestudy showed the kid can apply all of language function usage. Those are the instrumental, the regulatory, the interactional,the personal, the heuristic, the imaginative, and the representational. Therefore, she was interpreted has the ability aboveaverage the children the same age. The achievement was influenced by biological factors (parents who have good languageskills) and social environment (in the house, in the school, and so on) which can stimulate Jihan’s language development AbstrakMasa keemasan anak merupakan periode sensitif (sensitive periods). Selama masa tersebut anak secarakhusus mudah menerima stimulus-stimulus dari lingkungan. Tempo perkembangan bahasa anakcenderung variatif tergantung karakteristik anak. Penelitian ini berhubungan dengan perkembanganfungsi bahasa anak. Contoh kasus, Azza Aqila Jihan Syuasabitha (Jihan) anak perempuan yang berusia2,5 tahun. Jihan besar dalam lingkungan keluarga dan taman penitipan anak. Perkembangan fungsibahasanya pesat. Pemakaian bahasa dikhususkan pada interaksi Jihan dengan anggota keluarga.Pengumpulan data dalam penelitian dengan teknik pengamatan berperan serta. Subjek penelitian iniadalah anak penulis sendiri. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan perkembangan tuturanJihan sebagai anak yang berusia 2,5 tahun berdasarkan pengelompokan fungsi bahasa menurut M.A.KHalliday. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan anak itu mampu menerapkan keseluruhan fungsi penggunaanbahasa, yakni instrumental, regulatoris/dogmatis, interaksional, personal, heuristik, imajinatif, danrepresentasional. Dengan demikian, dapat diinterpretasikan bahwa anak itu memiliki kemampuan diatas rata-rata anak seumur dia. Pencapaian tersebut dipengaruhi oleh faktor biologis (orang tua yangmemang memiliki kemampuan berbahasa yang baik) dan lingkungan sosial (di rumah, sekolah, dantempat lain).


2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S125-S126
Author(s):  
Norma Verdolini ◽  
Silvia Amoretti ◽  
Gisela Mezquida ◽  
Bibiana Cabrera ◽  
Manuel J Cuesta ◽  
...  

Abstract Background Family environment plays a key role in the development of psychotic symptoms (Pitschel-Walz et al., 2001; Tienari et al., 2004) and negative family environmental factors are linked to poor prognosis in psychosis (Geller et al., 2000). By contrast, a positive family environment is associated with greater improvements in negative and disorganized symptoms among individuals at imminent risk of becoming psychotic (O’Brien et al., 2006). Nonetheless, little is known about the implication of family environment on longitudinal functioning in patients that presented a first psychotic episode. Methods This study is part of the “Phenotype-genotype and environmental interaction. Application of a predictive model in first psychotic episodes” (PEPS) study, a multicentric, longitudinal, naturalistic follow-up study (Bernardo et al., 2013). The Functional Assessment Short Test (FAST) was used to assess functional outcome. The Family Environment Scale (FES) evaluated family emotional climate in different categories: COHESION (C) for mutual reliance; EXPRESSIVITY (EX), the extent to which family members express their feelings directly; CONFLICTS (CON) for open expression of anger, aggressiveness and conflict; INDEPENDENCE (IND), the extent to which family members are independent in their decisions; ACHIEVEMENT ORIENTATION (AO) for an achievement-orientated environment; INTELLECTUAL–CULTURAL ORIENTATION (ICO) for political, intellectual, cultural interests; ACTIVE–RECREATIONAL ORIENTATION (ARO) for participation in social activities; MORAL–RELIGIOUS EMPHASIS (MRE) for the importance given to ethical and religious practices and values; ORGANIZATION (ORG) for the organization in activities and responsibilities; and CONTROL (CTL), the extent to which the family considers rules and established procedures. Patients with a first psychotic episode (FEPs) and healthy controls (HCs) have been evaluated baseline and after two years of follow-up. Diagnoses at 2 years have been established according to the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV. Linear regression models have been conducted in order to assess the effect that different family environments exert on functioning at baseline but also at 2 years of follow-up, when the group of FEPs has been divided in patients diagnosed with psychotic disorders (PSYC) versus bipolar disorder (BD). All data were analyzed with the Statistic Package for Social Sciences (SPSS v.23 for Windows). All the analyses were two-tailed with alpha set at p < 0.05. Results At baseline, the total sample included 335 FEPs (mean FAST=27.8±16.1) and 253 HCs (mean FAST 3.5±8.1). At baseline the linear model was not significant neither for FEPs nor for HCs and no family environment was associated with functioning. At 2 years (mean FAST BD=13.8±15.1, mean FAST PSYC =20.98±15.4), in the BD group (F(10,14)=2.6, p=.05) worse functioning was associated with CON (β=.741, p=.004) whilst in the PSYC group (F(10,108)=3.509, p=<.001) it was negatively associated with ARO (β=- .305, p=.006) and AO (β=- .204, p=.039) and positively associated with MRE (β=.268, p=.003). Discussion At baseline, no specific family environment was associated with functioning. At 2 years, in BD worse functioning was associated with higher rates of open expression of conflict in the family whilst in PSYC it was associated with lower rates of participation in social activities and achievement-orientated family environment as well as with higher rates of religious practices and values. Family environment exerts an important role in the functioning of FEPs mainly in the long-term, with important implications for early interventions for both patients and caregivers.


2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-38
Author(s):  
Dorota Strzelczyk

Abstract One of the actions that affect the quality of life of the family as a complex system of relationships is interpersonal communication that takes place between the members of the family. In line with the transactional analysis, the trend in psychology founded by E. Berne, relationships between individuals should be based on honest and open disclosure of one’s desires and attitudes, i.e. variety of transactions. Otherwise, there are specific game leading to maintain and increase the distance between family members, weaken the ties between them and leading to a reduction in the quality of interpersonal relationships. The paper below aims to make closer the problems of transactional analysis, beginning from the explanation of the structure of “Ego” according to Berne and the terms “transactions”, “reinforcement” and “life scripts”. There will be presented also games played in family environment and their consequences for the proper functioning of the family.


2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 359-365
Author(s):  
Vesela Ivanova Bozhkova

The prevention of cognitive dismoderate intercourse depends on the distinction of the basic behavioral stereotypes, blocking, moderation (this is a moderate, correct measure) regarding the adequate processing of information between the reflective representations of personality and the importance of the process of personality of communication. The study identifies the main aspects of the relationships of children in the family environment, influencing the process of cognitive dismoderate intercourse, through a projective methodology. Inductive for inferior interactions between family members is the arrangement of the drawings on the left side of the leaf, predominantly in pale colors. The importance of perception, as a sensory perception in children's drawings, is projected, as a reflection of things in the mind, through the sensory organs, indicative of cognitive dismoderate intercourse, is the blunting of the basic logical conclusions of the communicative process in the preponderance of emotional conclusions. The pale colors in the children's drawings, as well as the too bright ones, are indicative of cognitive deficits in communication. The reflective attitude of children to the events and events of their relationships with their parents influences the process of immediate active reflection on the cognitive spheres in the human mind, through internally personal and external objects, situations, positions, phenomena that determine the dysmoderate breaking of feedback in interactions. A large percentage of the students surveyed do not portray their family members holding hands, which is indicative of the lack of trust between family members, in their joint communication processes, they doubt their sincerity towards each other. Distant figures of family members are observed in the images in children's drawings; in practice, this is an indicator of alienation between family members. Basically, children's drawings lack eyelashes, when depicting family members, this is indicative of the lack of interest of family members towards each other. The lack of understanding of the problematic relationships between parents and children enhances the process of cognitive dismoderate intercourse between them, this type of relationship, the children transfer to the school environment. When children draw long arms in the image of their family, this indicator shows the presence in the mind of the child of an overbearing, arrogant and mentally burdensome person. The preventive importance of social interactions and attitudes has emerged, through the indicators of children's drawings indicating the behavioral tendencies and energy charge of adolescents, mainly in their behavior, a rich emotional world of manifested emotions is observed, but most of them are of a negative nature due to blocking and behavioral stressors.


2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (Especial 2) ◽  
pp. 102-108
Author(s):  
Joyce Garbosa de Azevedo ◽  
Fabio Camargo Bandeira Villela

In the family environment, in the relationship between adults and children, and especially in the school field, we often come across children who show some aggressive behavior, whether it is biting, hitting, pushing or, in other circumstances, children and teenagers who usually steal objects or attack people they relate to. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze and understand the roots of this problem that has increasingly afflicting adults, especially teachers, who face complex and unknown realities. For this reason, understanding aggression and knowing how to deal with them becomes an instrument that can help the teacher before these manifestations.


2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 96
Author(s):  
Marty Mawarpury ◽  
Mirza Mirza

The family is the smallest institution in society. A generation is forming from a family. That is why, the building of a family must strong to produce a formidable generation. Family toughness is determined by the foundation of the family builder. Resilience is often defined as endurance. Resilience is generally defined as the ability to overcome adversity, or to thrive despite challenges and difficulties in life. The concept of resilience is becoming increasingly popular in research on the ways people, families and communities recover from trauma, such as trauma from disasters, wars, or the loss of family members. A study of family resilience becomes important because the family is where people grow and develop. In addition, the family is the site of the main activity of the person so that the family become a quality determination of a person facing the future. To understand the process of family resilience, a multi system review is necessary in view of family conditions. The ecological perspective put forward by Urie Bronfenbrenner builds a model of interrelated relationships between families and between families and the social context.


Author(s):  
Amy Weisman de Mamani ◽  
Merranda McLaughlin ◽  
Olivia Altamirano ◽  
Daisy Lopez ◽  
Salman Shaheen Ahmad

The focus on the individual, typical of mainstream U.S. therapies, is alien to other cultures and can cause discomfort that leads to ineffective treatment and early termination. The aim of this chapter is to describe minorities collectivistic beliefs and introduce a rationale for incorporating them into family therapy in a way that creates a cohesive family environment. Skills from this chapter will aid families in emphasizing commonalities while de-emphasizing differences between family members. Therapists are provided suggestions for how to approach any differences that arise in how family members contribute to the family unit. The chapter provides notes on how to encourage family members to practice cultural traditions and destigmatize views of their ill family member. Examples of relevant homework exercises are provided. A case study of a Korean American family is used to illustrate the process.


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