Addiction and the impact on the Family Introduction The purpose of this essay is to discuss the impact of addiction within a family. When addiction is present, family members deal with it in different ways and they take on different roles to help balance out the family dynamics. This essay will go into the different roles and examine the feelings and effects that each role brings with it. When one or more of the caregivers have an addiction, it is usually the children that suffer. The essay will discuss how children brought up in addicted households are affected and the effects on their adult lives.
Literature Review LeeAnn Myers Capella University Dr. Ron Muchnik Family Therapy Models One of the family systems therapy models that I chose to research is Family Systems Therapy. Family Systems Therapy looks at the family as an emotional unit. The Family Systems approach is based on idea that families and their patterns of communication and interaction directly affect human beings and how they function. When applied to families, Family Systems Therapy allows therapists to evaluate the parts of a system (family) in relation to the whole. This theory further suggests that an individual’s behavior is informed by and inseparable from the functioning of his or her family of origin (GoodTherapy.org, 2007-2015).
Examine the different functions performed by the family for individuals and for society. There are many functions performed by a family, however these have declined since industrialisation. In this essay there will be different views of the family and what its role is in society. There are three main views on the family these are; Functionalist, Marxist and feminist, each has its own unique outlook on how a family should be run. The functionalist outlook is that there are shared norms which everyone in the society must follow to work together to achieve the society’s needs.
The entire family has also been invited to participate in all the sessions. Time was spent in regards to focusing on relationships as Minuchin (1974, p. 56) points out that the techniques of the structural model address the underlying patterns of people’s interactions. Special attention was paid to the family’s transactional patterns, as I the clinician, was searching for clues in regards to the family’s structure, the permeability of the family’s subsystem boundaries, and the existence of alignments or coalitions. Structural changes will need to occur within the family in order to reduced or alleviate Trey’s
Anticonvulsants are prescribed to those who have signs of rapid cycling or mixed episodes. Lastly, antidepressants are prescribed to those with stage 1 bipolar and they also receive a mood stabilizer. Therapy is also known to help people with this disorder. Family therapy helps the families work through issues that may be causing the episodes to be more frequent or severe. It also helps the family get a better understanding of what is going on with their loved one and how they can fix the environment around them to decrease the
It is reasonable to make the assumption that at some point in an individual’s life they may show behaviour problems or have difficulty coping with the demands that life brings to them. This ultimately impacts on the family unit and subsequently means that a social worker will have to be aware that families are all unique and have various complex needs (Wilson, Ruch, Lymbery and Cooper, 2008). This in turn means that a social worker may have many different approaches when working with and assessing various families. For the purposes of this assignment I aim to assess the family in the case study and video by taking an Ecological (Bronfenbrenner, 1979) and Life Course (Green, 2010) approach to understand the complex needs of the family. In doing this I have assessed the family under several different headings which are ecological and life course approach, ethics and values in practice, parenting capacity, the community, attachment, developmental psychology, new sociological studies of childhood and assessment and intervention.
Functionalists say that the family is an important institution in society that provides functions to meet some of society’s needs. Section 2b highlights the socialisation function of family. Functionalists say that the family is an important institution in society that provides functions to meet some of society’s needs. The family has the greatest impact on socialization. Infants, especially are totally dependent on others, and the responsibility to look after the young ones typically falls on parents.
Parenting styles are a combination of parental circumstances, habits, and emotional patterns that define the relationships between parent and child. This essay investigates the four main parenting styles from which questions emerge about the effectiveness of each. As we explore the possibilities of each style, please keep in mind, parenting style is meant to define normal variations and circumstances in parenting. Parenting is a complex activity that includes many specific behaviors that work individually and together to influence the outcome of child rearing. Parenting styles are very diverse and usually reflect that of one’s own life experiences.
This essay will discuss the historical significance of the family in relation to the issue, as well briefly examine the impact of gender. According to Perry & Perry (2009), the family as a social institution is identifiable in almost every society ever documented. Families contribute to ones identity (Perry & Perry, 2009), particularly parents, who greatly influence their children. Parental behaviour will affect how a child relates to others in both positive and negative ways, as in the case of bullying. Parson understood this when he developed the theory known as Primary Socialisation, which indicated that the fundamental role of the family was to mould the character of the offspring (Van Krieken, Habibis, Smith, Hutchins, Haralambos & Holborn, 2010).
Upon the leaving of Jason, Kay and Arnold have begun to experience issues with intimacy and communication. They have chosen to seek outside help to deal with these issues as well as personal issues of loneliness and inadequacy. Identification of stage of development: Both Kay and Arnold lay within many family stages that transition back and forth within their cycle. This statement is supported by the two basic concepts within Family Life Cycle theory which looks at the life cycle by way of emotional and intellectual stages that one must go through and the developmental tasks that enhance level of responsibility during these stages. To be successful throughout these cycles, family members need to adapt and change to ensure survival of the family.