Berry's Immediate Family Case Studies

The Sanchez family is the typical Latino family that you find in most neighborhoods. The mother Celia Sanchez doesn’t speak English since she’s surrounded by people who speak Spanish. As a Latino mother she’s very religious attends church and participates in church events where she gets food as well. Since Celia’s English is limited this has been an impediment during school conferences and other situations that she has faced. Celia wants to apply for food stamps but her husband Hector doesn’t agree and is completely against it. I kind of understand where Hector is coming from being the man of the house he feels that he needs to provide for his family and thinks he’s responsible for everyone. Thus, he doesn’t leave room for additional help and wants to everything himself.

Thirty- four year old Jarmecca Yvonne Whitehead also know as nikki was murdered on the morning of January 13, 2010 in her conyers home.

This years theme is “Leadership and Legacy in Georgia History.” Our topic is the Bradley-Turner Family. The Bradley-Turner family has been very influential in Columbus and Georgia’s history.

John and Mary were high school sweethearts and best friends. They married at a young age, never had issues communicating with one another, and they have always been a very loving couple towards each other and their children. John is a man’s man and is remised when it comes to speak about emotions and feelings. Mary is very passive and was raised to believe that the man is in charge of the household. Dean has the same ideology as his father about expressing feelings and emotions and Sam is passive like his mother but also subscribes to his father’s machismo ideals. Prior to his last deployment the family was a close-knit group and John was very active in his sons’ lives. They attended Dean’s baseball games, Sam’s Math-lete competitions, and he often took his sons on hunting and fishing trips.

“I know my mom and dad love each other but their marriage is not healthy and has not been for a long time.” “They don’t even sleep in the same room”. (personal communication, 08/03/2013). Selyna states she feels like her mother is depressed, but would never admit to it. Selyna and her sister Stephanie are very close to their mother. Selyna’s brother Sergio is gay which has caused the greatest conflict with his father and has resulted in a poor relationship with conflict and discord. Selyna states “When my brother came out it was the most stress I have ever seen my family endure it was very hard for all of us. I have never stopped loving my brother and was able to look past it, but my father never has and I don’t think he ever will” (personal communication, 08/03/2013). Selyna describes her relationship with her brother Sergio and her sister Stephanie as close and has depicted on the genogram as extremely close or fused.

("Mary realized the letter effectively closed the door on her college aspirations. She had already completed sixteen hours of college credits and would get no closer toward graduation."pg.17) They both are loving and supporting to their kids and wanted the best by trying to get them to avoid the violence they had around their neighborhood. But without their Mothers guide they couldn’t follow the right path growing up. Joy gets married but has to end up leaving Bill due to his drug addiction and violent abuse. Soon after, she meets and marries Westly and has two children with him. Westly dies so Joy ends up moving back in to the Bronx with her family. Marys' husband dies when Moore was young. They were both similar because they lived in Baltimore and had to raise their boys without a father figures. Mary responds cruelly when she discovers that Wes is managing drugs, vindictively flushing a great many dollars of medications that Wes intended to sell down the can. Moore's dismissal of Riverdale and poor scholastic exhibitions puts a critical strain on his association with his mom,

A family of four came into counseling. Frank, 43, who works so much. Emily, 39, who is a mom that works from home part-time. Two daughters, Sarah (10 years old) and Whitney (6 years old). One night, Frank came home from work, and Emily called a family meeting. Sarah has decided that she would like to have a little brother because a friend of Sarah’s is going to have a little brother. Sarah spoke with Emily about how much she would love a little brother. After thinking about it, Emily decided to speak with her husband about having another baby. Frank did not seem like he wanted another baby at his age, and was thinking about doing a little traveling now that the kids are getting a little older. Frank has been leaving town a lot more, causing

Slavery separated families when children were young and took advantage of childbearing women, leading to a long-lasting detrimental effect on African American family unity. Although slavery is commonly known to have taken place in 18th and 19th centuries, family values from slavery have trickled into recent times, as spoken of Barack Obama in (date). Well after the historic end of slavery, pieces were written about the distorted family values between previously enslaved families, one being The Family Relation, as Affected by Slavery by Charles K. Whipple. Although some slave masters may have chosen to keep families together, that was not the case for Frederick Douglass. Separated from his mother during childhood, having a master that could

Rose Mary and Rex Walls did not have the future they had hoped they would. They had four beautiful and intelligent children: Lori, Jeannette, Brian, and Maureen, that they had the privilege of raising. However, that is not how they viewed them. Rose Mary is an aspiring artist who never wanted a family, and Rex is a very bright individual, but it is overshadowed by his alcohol addiction. Growing up their kids had to learn how to fend for themselves. However, this brought them closer together as siblings, and taught them how to fight together. “But we always fought back, usually as a team,” (165). The children learned how to protect each other against offenders, even when it came to their parents. To illustrate, it became very evident that they have to provide for themselves when the children find their own mother hiding chocolate from them. “She told us we should forgive her the same way we always forgave Dad for his drinking. None of us said a thing,”(Walls 174). She didn’t think about feeding the whole family when they were going hungry, she only thought about herself. The family was not very financially stable because their father enjoyed spending their money instantaneously, instead of saving it, so hiding something even small like chocolate from her kids is a big deal. This is what Jeannette’s whole childhood consisted

While reading The Family Crucible, the authors made it feel like I was watching a life-time television series. There were several high points and low points during the family therapy session that left me unsure of how the show would end. This book takes you on a journey using family counseling to help a family heal and communicate better with one another. I thought it was interesting how this systematic therapy took place in a time where therapy was looked at as taboo. Many times in that era family therapy was not an option. The main focus was on the family member with the issue and not on the parents or other family members. In the book the authors used different theories and approaches during the counseling sessions which were quite interesting. This process after time enabled the family to look at the journey they were on in order to understand how the family, as a whole, should function.

Sharon 's biological father was horrid to her throughout her childhood. Sharon often refuses to make any mention to her biological father, but those she have been terrible. Sharon’s father would never be in her children’s life, but the impacts he had on her are still present in her life today. Sharon’s mother, Marilyn, has worked very hard to keep her family together. Marilyn has always been a caring woman with a full heart. Marilyn is the storyteller of the family with her grandchildren being her primary source material. Sharon is a mix of the good and bad in her life. Together Jayson’s mother and father have shaped who he is and how he see’s the world much how their ancestors before them have.

The Family Crucible is a story about the Brice family who is recommended by Claudia’s psychiatrist to go to family therapy due to the fact that she has not been making any progress in individual psychotherapy. The Brice family comes in to meet with Dr. Carl Whitaker and Dr. Augustus Napier, who co-facilitate family therapy throughout the entirety of the book.

Derick is sixty-one years old male who lives with his wife and two of their three daughters, ages 21 and 17. Derick was the third of four children. His oldest brother is eleven years older than him, his sister is eight years older than him, and his youngest brother is nine years younger than him. His Dad, Edwin, passed away 15 years ago and his Mom, Rosemary, is 90 years old. Until five months ago, she, lived alone, worked full-time, and drove herself to work and to Northern California to visit her sister. Five months ago, she fell and broke her neck. The family has had to pull their resources together to take care of her. Unfortunately, it is also triggered Doug and the other siblings to relive issues from their childhood.

Sarah and John relationship issues have resulted in separation stemming from lack of communication, anxiety, isolation and disconnection resulting in a dysfunctional marriage. Their lack of interaction in their relationship and being unaware of each family members feeling and behavior has contributed to their marriage break down. John feels, Sarah does not pay attention to him since the kids were born. Sarah finds John irresponsible and that she needs to do look after the responsibility in the family otherwise it would not get done. Another hypothesis is that Sarah has experienced an unnatural death in her family by her father Max who committed suicide, which contributes to Sarah feelings that she was to blame for his

Spirituality/religion. Religion plays a large role in J and K’s family’s life as they are self-identifying Christians. K explained that “what we believe dictates the way we live, the decisions we make and the way we parent our kids” (K, personal communication, June 1, 2018). J added, “it is the driving force behind how the family lives” (J, personal communication, June 1, 2018). Their religious beliefs are their sole source of hope and coping with illness.