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Show Soup & Salad seminar to discuss traditional family settinq 10 W balance of openness, closeness, and coping with skills within the family, Hasself eld said. Problems will arise within the family system, but the way to deal with those situations is to express feelings openly, said Hasselfeld. "Only when we get our feelings out is when the healing process can begin," Hasselfeld said. According to Hasselfeld, parents need to remember they "cannot change another person, the only-person only-person that can be changed is yourself." A parent can influence children to change, but they cannot do the changing for the child, Hasselfeld said. C - .' - " People can change but it is a process pro-cess that takes time. "The functional, family needs balance within their 'system, They need to have a balance of openness c' and closeness, ' structure and unstructured, etc. said Hasselfeld. Benchmark Regional Hospital is. offering this special Soup 'n Salad seminar to anyone interested in the topic being discussed. The next seminar will be on May 17 and will feature Duncan "Wallace, M.D., discussing "Stress Creation and Stress Release.' Tsi l . . Less than five percent of people in the American society today live in a traditional family setting, said Diana Hasselfeld. Diana i Hasselfeld, Salt Lake Community College, instructor, spoke on "Family Dynamics" at last Wednesday's Soup 'n Salad seminar at Benchmark Regional Hospital. The nuclear family, which Hasselfeld describes as a father, mother, ard children, is where all learnin g should take place, ; - The characteristics of these nucka- family members in the 1980's tn as follows: father, career ' changes, sharing rof roles in - ml home; mother, working, single;, children, latch key, more responsibility, respon-sibility, more active, : Hasselfeld said. .. " ... ::v.'v "Many of the problems children encounter in their lives stern back co the nuclear family,' said Hasselfeld. : According to Hasselfeld "There, is no such thing as a 'good or, bad family; there -are differences, but that , doesn't mean" it's good or ' Jjj'MU AbtilU lyjsiftyvn Ti.itiri- JIne ''functional family" i$ the key to a successful family. By a "functional family' I this means |