Family & Personal Relationships

Communication through body movements and gestures

• Nonverbal communication
• Body language
• Dancing
• Verbal communication

The thoughtful concern for other people's feelings and opinions

• Thoughtfulness
• Relationships
• Consideration
• Values

To use acceptable techniques to overcome difficulties, to solve a problem or adapt to a situation

• Cope
• Life Changes
• Therapy
• Nonverbal communication

An unstable or critical situation in which the outcome will make a decisive difference for better or worse

• Life changes
• Relationships
• Consideration
• Crisis

A person or group of persons joined together by blood, marriage, adoption, or other bonds who are committed to each other and provide emotional support

• Functional family
• Family structures
• Family life cycle
• Family

Series of stages through which an average family passes

• Relationships
• Family stages
• Family life cycle
• Family structure

The makeup of a family group based on the relationships of the members in the family

• Nuclear family
• Family life cycle
• Family
• Family structures

Family in which the members relate to each other in positive ways

• Good relationships
• Functional family
• Cope
• Siblings

Significant events that transform individuals and families

• Life changes
• Crisis
• Situations
• Family life cycle

Communication that uses factors other than words, such as gestures, facial expressions, eye contact, and body language

• Verbal communication
• Body language
• Movement
• Nonverbal communication