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THE-02 · TOP-006

Family Systems

Children have evolving capabilities and limited power over many systems affecting them. Errors in family planning and coordination can create developmental, relational, educational, health or safety consequences that persist.

8 canonical Subtopics in this Topic.

Family Planning and Coordination

Family Planning and Coordination is the systematic study and design of conditions, interventions and safeguards affecting children or families within family systems.

Care Coordination

Care Coordination is the systematic study and design of conditions, interventions and safeguards affecting children or families within family systems.

Household Knowledge Management

Household Knowledge Management is the systematic study and design of conditions, interventions and safeguards affecting children or families within family systems.

Shared Family Memory

Shared Family Memory is the systematic study and design of conditions, interventions and safeguards affecting children or families within family systems.

Family Decision Support

Family Decision Support is the systematic study and design of conditions, interventions and safeguards affecting children or families within family systems.

Family Outcome Mapping

Family Outcome Mapping is the systematic study and design of conditions, interventions and safeguards affecting children or families within family systems.

Intergenerational Communication

Intergenerational Communication is the systematic study and design of conditions, interventions and safeguards affecting children or families within family systems.

Crisis and Transition Support

Crisis and Transition Support is the systematic study and design of conditions, interventions and safeguards affecting children or families within family systems.

Stories from Family Systems

Scenario narratives — not empirical findings.

Family Planning and Coordination

The exercise began with a simulated outage and became a test of whether people could still coordinate when the dashboards disappeared. Families, practitioners and institutions are encountering unresolved safety, developm

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Care Coordination

At 8:10 on Monday morning, Ravi, the nurse unit manager, removed the word “successful” from the programme dashboard. Families, practitioners and institutions are encountering unresolved safety, development or coordinatio

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Household Knowledge Management

The family called it “the second shift”: the hours spent reconciling what different services believed about the same person. Families, practitioners and institutions are encountering unresolved safety, development or coo

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Shared Family Memory

The exercise began with a simulated outage and became a test of whether people could still coordinate when the dashboards disappeared. Families, practitioners and institutions are encountering unresolved safety, developm

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Family Decision Support

The machine fault took eleven minutes to repair. Reconstructing why the system had recommended the wrong sequence took the rest of the shift. Families, practitioners and institutions are encountering unresolved safety, d

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Family Outcome Mapping

The system crossed the border in a day. Its assumptions about language, authority and trust did not travel nearly as well. Families, practitioners and institutions are encountering unresolved safety, development or coord

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Intergenerational Communication

The board paper described the result as green. Thomas placed a red marker beside the missing evidence. Families, practitioners and institutions are encountering unresolved safety, development or coordination problems ass

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Crisis and Transition Support

Anika had already told the story three times before the appointment began. Families, practitioners and institutions are encountering unresolved safety, development or coordination problems associated with crisis and tran

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