Conducting a Family Interview for HLT-324V Course

Task:

 

When conducting the "Family Interview," please make sure that you inform the individual you choose to interview that you will be using their responses in a compare and contrast cultural paper for HLT-324V. It is important that people give you approval to use their personal stories prior to doing so. Please use this template and the following questions below when conducting your interviews. In addition to these questions, you are required to ask another three questions, which you are to include on this template.  Please submit this template with your paper by the end of Module 2. 

1.What are your family roles/gender roles? How are they the same as or different from those traditionally practiced by your culture (who is the head of the household, who makes decisions, how are decisions made, etc.)? Growing up in Africa, the head of the household is the male because he is the sole provide. But In America, that role has constantly change over the years

 

2.What does your culture and family see as primary family goals (education, marriage, etc.)?
Primary Family goals are education and then marriage. You are to go to school first before marriage, even if it is just high school, you are required to obtain that form of education enable to help you get a job that will sustain you. But above all, you are to go to college and get a degree. You can marry after high school but not before high.

 

3.What is your culture’s view on alternative lifestyles (living together prior to marriage, domestic partnerships, single parenting, etc.)? Well, from childhood, I have not notice or seen any alternative lifestyle when it comes to how we live in the line of mirrae. WE do not have a specifc rules when it comes to mirage as to when and how to. If you are fortunate to marry before sex, or live together before marriage, you are considered a very lucky and blessed person. There is no rule and regulation about mirage.

4.What are your family’s religious beliefs, and have they changed over generations? My family religious believe is Christianity. We are Christian, and attend the Lutheran church. But over the years, we have change from generations, the tradition is no longer kept. Some of us do attend other denomination and some has also converted to islam.

 

5.What are your family’s spiritual beliefs around death and dying? My family spiritual believe about death and dying is taken very seriously due to the fact that when a person died, they will no longer be seen. They are saying out that we will all meet on judgement day, but no one knows if you are actually going to really see all your family on that day. Spiritually we believe that after death, you are head to either heaven or hell so for this reasons, we all pray that at the time of death, that person should have repented from all sins.

 

6.What are your culture’s education and occupational status within the family unit? Within my family, most of us are working in the health care field. From a CNA, CMA, LPN, RN, NP.

 

7.What are your culture’s preferred communication methods (verbal and nonverbal)? In my culture we prefer a verbal communication method. Nonverbal communication is considered rude and disrespectful. You are required make your voice heard no matter what your age is. Everybody needs to be heard.

 

8.Additional question: Work attitudes and structure
Work is taken very seriously in my family. Our believe systems is without work you will not survive. You are taught to be very independent, so you do not end up being a liability on others. For this reason, we make sure everybody that reaches the working age are help to get on their feet to be independent.

 

9.Additional question: Family member roles and organizational systems All family members have a major role in the family. The older you’re the more responsibilities you have. As an older adult in the family, you are required to make sure the younger members become like you or even more than you. Whatever it takes to make them independent, you have to help them so they cannot be a liability

 

10.Additional question: What hold the family together in the time of crisis? In the time of crisis, all problem is taken to the head of the family for investigation. The head of the family is usually the male figure. All problems must be solve and there should be peace all the time among all family members.