Based on your analysis, what are the strengths of your family system? What are the areas of weakness? What goals will you set for yourself, or what goals would you have set for yourself? How would the diagnosis or identification of an exceptional need have affected your family system?

DISCUSSION ESSAY

Describe your family structure and cultural, racial and ethnic background. (You may choose to focus on your family from when you were a child or your family now that you are an adult.)

Create an ecological system graphic to show your family’s external supports- including the Microsystem, Mesosystem, Exosystem, Macrosystem and Chronosystem. This graphic should be specific to your family’s supports.

Examine and explain your family’s system by considering the components: boundaries, communication, cohesion, adaptability/flexibility and climate. How does each work for your family? Share examples from your family experience

Based on your analysis, what are the strengths of your family system? What are the areas of weakness? What goals will you set for yourself, or what goals would you have set for yourself? How would the diagnosis or identification of an exceptional need have affected your family system?