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EDP 403 March 17, 2024 Chapter 7 Reflection Paper Chapter 7 dives into various aspects of family relationships. It touches on sibling, extended family, and parent relationships. We jump in to parenting styles and the effects of the different types on adolescents. We gain a better understanding of attachment and conflict between adolescents and their parents. It also discusses effects of divorce and remarriage, physical and sexual abuse, and even a bit about when adolescents are on their own. Throughout the chapter, I have learned a lot about family relationships and will be able to take this with me into my future career as a child psychologist. Family dynamics can differ depending on who the relationship involves. With siblings, there are 5 patterns of relationships including caregiver, buddy, critical, rival, and casual relationship. They include things from the sibling providing care to their sibling as a parent would to being in competition with one another. With the family systems approach, it’s about how the relationships in the family create a sort of balance and when a relationship has issues, it can set the family dynamics off track. I am 1 of 5 girls and I think with my siblings, we have a mix of buddy, critical and rival pattern relationships. With the knowledge of family dynamics, I can address this in sessions with adolescents and figure out the root of the issues. There are 4 parenting styles. Authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, and disengaged. They can range from high or low in demandingness to high or low in responsiveness. Authoritative parents have a good balance of autonomy and responsibility which has the more favorable outcome typically. Authoritarian parenting has an outcome of being dependent, permissive with irresponsible or immature, and disengaged with impulsive or delinquency.
Parents and adolescents have bidirectional effects meaning the two have an affect on each other. Differential parenting also plays a role because if parents are treating one child different from another, this can lead to behavior and psychological problems. I will be able to distinguish the parenting types from the information gathered from the adolescent which will help to determine the best approach to addressing the problems both with the parents and child. Family dynamic shifts such as divorce and remarriage have an effect on adolescents as well. Divorce is associated with higher drug and alcohol use, depression, being withdrawn, less likely to seek higher education, etc and takes a larger toll on young children over adolescence. With remarriage can come anxiety, low academic achievement, depression, conduct disorder, disruption to family structure and more. Remarriage is a bigger adjustment for adolescence compared to little kids. Physical abuser in adolescence can have a major impact on an adolescent and family dynamics. Adolescents can be more aggressive, anxious, depressed, poor academic achievement, substance use issues, and it is more likely to impact large or poor families. Sexual abuse is another issue that can be used to gain control or maintain power over a child. Experiencing this in adolescence can come with trust issues, depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and suicidal ideations to name a few. Adolescents and their relationships with those around them, specifically their family will change the course of how and who they develop in to. They might have a lot of conflict with parents or siblings, run away from home, experience physical or sexual abuse, or smaller things as well but each piece of the family dynamic has a result. This chapter has provided me with a lot of information that will make me suited to support adolescents through the challenges they face and help me show them how to overcome issues that can relate to family structure.
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