Family-Centered Care

Presented By:
NC Muneeza Shafiq
NC Zanib Bibi
A Simple Definition of Family-Centered Care

“F.C.C. is a partnership between families and clinicians.

It’s a collaborative relationship. It helps families set the
goals for their child’s treatment and recovery.”
 Family-Centered Care

• Family-centered care is a way of providing

services that assures the health and well-being
of children and their families through respectful
family/professional partnerships.

• It honors the strengths, cultures, traditions, and

expertise that families and professionals bring to
this relationship.
• Health care visits for children youth and their
families can be more than getting shots, having
ears examined or getting treatment for the
physical symptoms of an illness. 

• During visits and in all forms of communication,

strong family/professional partnerships ensure
that a child/youth receives the highest quality of
health care.
Common Concept in Family
Centered Care
Why is family
structure important?

Having close relationships

with family members is
essential for everyone
because those
connections provide
support, love, and
connection. Children in
particular benefit from a
loving family, regardless
of its actual structure.
 The roles and responsibilities of
members of a family
•General Functions of the Family
•The following are the general functions of the family:
•Procreation: bringing new members of the family into the world for continuity of
the family and the society.
•Provision: The basic necessities of life such as food, shelter and clothing are
provided in the family.
•Moral Guidance: Training of the children in line with the acceptable norms of the
society in good character formation.
•Education: Family helps to give formal and informal education to children.
•Peaceful Co-existence: Peace in the larger society starts from home. The parents
settle disputes that may arise among family members.
•Means of Identity: Family name is born by all members of the family which makes
them to be different and give due recognition in the society. Most cultures abhor
fatherless children without proper family attachment.
•Communal life: Members of the family are bond together and see themselves as
being bound together by love. They share together in the times of good and bad.
 Roles of the Father in the Family
In the family, the father performs the following roles:
• Providing love and care for the wife and children.
• Providing moral guidance for the children.
• Supplying the basic necessities of life such as food,
shelter and clothing for the family.
• Providing the children with quality education.
• Ensuring the whole family is comfortable, in accordance
with his earnings.
• Protection and security. Father is the chief security officer
of the family. He makes sure that all the members of the
family are secured from internal and societal dangers.
 Roles of the Mother in the Family
• Giving birth to children.
• Cooking for the family.
• Keeping the house and the surroundings clean.
• Assisting the husband financially when necessary.
• Seeing to the moral education of the children.
• Ensuring peace in the family.
• Ensuring proper hygiene within the family.
• Supervising the children’s home work.
 Roles of the Children in the Family
The children perform the following roles in the family:
• Obeying the parents and other adults.
• Assisting in performing household chores, particularly in
the kitchen, garden and laundry.
• Running errands for older members of the family.
• Maintaining the good tradition of the family.
• Keeping the family name alive.
• Being good representatives of the family in the outside
world by protecting the good name of the family.
 Role of Grandparents in the Family
• They are the ones who are done with giving all their
duties to their kids and want to have a safe life at their old
age.
• They also take care of the kids when parents go to work
or even take care of the house in the absence.
• They are also the ones to give the grandkids perching
and teachings to maintain traditions of the culture and
rituals they follow which often parents due to their hectic
schedule fail to give.
 Role of Sibling in the Family
• Brothers and sisters play their part to protect and care
for children and young people in their community by
being supportive, caring and looking out for each other.
Be a positive role model for your siblings to learn from
• The elder ones are responsible to take care of the
younger ones and to make sure that they work as the
emotional and psychological moral.
• Further, they are also bound to obey their parents and
help them perform different household chores and
other activities that can make sure the mother or father
gets a better helping hand.
 Role of Sister in the Family
• Helps mother in doing household chores
• Doing errands and going to the market with grandmother
• Taking care of younger siblings
• Going to the bank to withdraw the family allowance
• Understanding and considerate sister
• Role model to the younger siblings
• Helps the younger siblings in their school homework
• Responsible guardian to the siblings when parents are
not around
• Respects the elder members and love all the family
members
 Role of Brother in the Family
• Assigned to the heavy works in the house
• Carpentry works
• Fixing technical stuff (computers, laptops, phones, etc.)
• Protects all the girls in family when grandfather is not
around
• Do simple household chores
• Respects the elder members and love all the family
members
Importance of family-centered care
Family-centered care ensures that healthcare is planned
around the whole family, in which all family members are
recognized as care recipients and active decision-makers.
At the core of family-centered care are the principles of
trust and equal partnership between the healthcare
provider and the family.
Research has highlighted the following benefits of family-
centered care:
• Improved healthcare decision-making, based on better
information and collaboration between professionals and
families.
• Greater parent confidence, parental satisfaction, parent
personal control and family empowerment.
• Increased competence of children and adolescents to
better manage their own healthcare independently.
• Opportunities for healthcare professionals to learn from
families about the actual workings of a healthcare
services and system.
• More efficient and effective use of a professional’s time
and healthcare resources.
• Improved communication between healthcare
professionals.
Role of each family member living with a
child with SMID