After divorce, childhood is different. Whether the final outcome is good or bad, the whole trajectory of an individual's life is profoundly altered by the divorce experience. It is not independent agreement. This relationship between husband and wife is essential to a healthy family relationship. "A central finding to my research," says Wallerstein, "is that children identify not only with their mother and father as separate individuals but with the relationship between them.
GNT 1 Task 2 The case manager has to work with an interdisciplinary team to address several issues before Mr. Trosack can be discharged. One important issue that has to be addressed is Mr. Trosack’s psychosocial status to ensure that he doesn’t become isolated, depressed, or lose his identity. The team would educate Mr. Trosack and his family on diabetes, hypertension, exercise, diet, and equipment that may be used. His home environment would need to be addressed. How safe is his current residence?
Although Ann (case study 1) fits in with the government definition, she does not see herself as a carer. This is a common feeling among people who care for family members. My aim is to highlight and discuss some of the difficulties and rewards of caring for a family member. Examples used will be from various sources, including a case study of Ann Walker, research studies by Hussein et al (2002), Townsend (1957) and Dutch et al (2006). There are many difficulties and rewards of caring for a family member, this depends on many factors; who are you caring for, if you are close to them, how much choice you had in becoming a carer, if you had to leave your job, personal attributes and how other family relationships are managed.
They may have many contributing factors which effect everyday life that require exploration during the counselling process. Different ethnic groups may be driven by ingrained thoughts and beliefs which may be introjected by their parents making some of these abuse issues acceptable within their community. For a therapist to work ethically with abuse and the issues a client may bring to therapy it is important to look into, and be aware of, all these acts of abuse and what effects they can have on a client. There are policies and procedures for cases of abuse and latest policies and procedures regarding safeguarding are intended to be in place to support vulnerable people from abuse. Using my own experiences I hope to explore these issues within this essay and in doing so highlight my awareness of how these issues can affect a client and how therapy may help during the healing process.
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.
Family therapy is useful throughout life and can be especially useful in the treatment of long term illness such as depression. Family therapy usually works within family groups but often includes work with people on an individual basis or, when appropriate, individual sessions within a series of family meetings. Family therapy may also include the social networks around families. The family systems Perspective A family systems perspective holds that individuals are best understood through assessing the interactions between and among family members. The development and behavior of one family member is inextricably interconnected with others in the family.
Childhood maltreatment studies have offered diverse predictors in the types of childhood maltreatment associated with BPD. Sexual abuse, inconsistent maltreatment by a female caretaker, emotional denial by a male caretaker, emotional neglect, and emotional abuse have all been found to be significant predictors of BPD (Hernandez, Arntz, Gaviria, Labad, & Gutiérrez-Zotes, 2012). Mentalization, the process in which we make sense of each other and ourselves, is undermined by genetic and early environmental factors (Fonagy, Luyten, & Strathearn, 2011). There may be several pathways that lead to developing BPD but childhood sexual abuse is the most frequently reported by 40-71% of patients with BPD. The severity of the disorder is also linked with the severity of the sexual abuse, which has led some clinicians to view BPD as a form of chronic post-traumatic stress disorder (Lieb, Zanarini, Schmahl, Linehan, & Bohus,
As Ehrenreicht says the Family is the place where we go for comfort and to relax, but it is that very notion of family being a safe haven makes it all that much... In my opinion the ideal family is a group of people that have emotional, blood, or legal ties. The ideal family to me includes a monogamous marriage between two adults who are socially and financial dependent. These adults should also care for young including biological children, adopted children, or mentoring for disadvantaged children. The parents should teach the children, and also provide proper education.
American criminologist Travis Hirschi makes “attachment” (Walsh, 1991:108) the backbone of his control theory of delinquency. Attachment refers to the extent to which a person is psychologically and emotionally close to others delinquency (http://criminology.fsu.edu/crimtheory/hirschi.htm). Particularly, it is the attachment to one’s parents that determine the likelihood of delinquency in adolescence. The attachment embraced within the family serves as a basis for attachments to individuals and institutions that happen later in life. For example, the attached child behaves by giving respect, cooperates with others, and doing well in school to please those whose opinions matter
I really identified with the “Don’t talk, don’t trust, and don’t feel” and also the roles that a child develops living with an alcoholic. The roles are a way to survive. The questions that come to mind while doing research would be; if an adult child didn’t seek help from their past how are their parenting styles with their own children? I would like to see more research on this as they could be parenting with some of the same dysfunction and don’t realize it. Also how the alcoholic home has affects extended family members that are not in the home.