Dysfunctionly Functional Family

They key to a good family relationship is communication. Sharing time with their children and always hear them when they want to talk with them.

Families are either functional or dysfunctional. “The Red Convertible” would be considered a functional family, but on the other hand, “The Rich Brother” would be considered a dysfunctional family. Functional

Functional assessments focuses on the behavioral aspect of the family, more specifically how each member actually behaves with regards to the other members of the family (Wright & Leahey, 2013). There are two aspects of family functioning: expressive and instrumental. The instrumental characteristic of family functioning focuses on the family’s daily activities. The expressive aspect is a bit more involved and includes nine separate categories including: emotional, verbal, nonverbal, and circular communications; problem solving, roles, influence and power, beliefs, as well as alliances and coalitions (Wright & Leahey, 2013).. When I think about the family I will be assessing, I feel functional assessments will be utilized the most when assessing

Furthermore, dysfunctional families have significant effects on family members; for instance, children from dysfunctional families are more likely to have depression, anxiety and low self esteem. They also develop life ling problems with their interpersonal relationships and unable to maintain a happy married life with

Families develop basic and unique competencies, patterns of functioning, and capabilities designed to protect the family from unexpected or non-normative stressors, and strains and to foster the family’s recovery following a family crisis or major transition or change.

Examples of dysfunctional families can be seen everywhere in society - on television, in movies, in music, and of course, in literature. Many books have recently been published that include complex, conflicted families. The purpose of using dysfunctional families in popular literature is to make the story more relatable, show different views on the traditional family dynamic, and to spark interest with readers. These three intentions are shown in both George RR. Martin’s Game of Thrones and Alice Munro’s Who Do You Think You Are?. Both works contain complex characters that illustrate abnormal family dynamics and the integral value of dysfunctional families in literature. This idea of dysfunction among families can be seen in the Lannister and Stark families in Game Of Thrones and Rose’s immediate family and her husband in Who Do You Think You Are?. The Lannister family in George RR. Martin’s Game Of Thrones are one of the most powerful and rich families in the series. They are a prosperous dynasty and live the lives of kings and queens. However, they are also one of the most dysfunctional families in all of literature. The lives of the Lannister family are filled with incest, betrayal, murder and destruction. The Stark family are yet another example of dysfunction in a family structure seen in Game Of Thrones. Rose’s family in Alice Munro’s Who Do You Think You Are? are the cause of her having a very sad childhood. She resides with her father, his second wife named Flo and

Growing up and seeing kids with both a mom and dad in their life didn’t affect me until I was about 7 years old. That’s when I started realizing that my parents never showed up to any “Bring your mom to school” days or Daddy Daughter Dances. My nana was always there with a Dr. Pepper, Cheetos, and a big smile. Nana was always the first one there for me. Then, my life was flipped.

The purpose of the research was to compare families with children who have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) to families without children with ADHD by comparing the dysfunction and adversity of each family. Study revealed that families that have children with ADHD tend to have more family dysfunction than those families without children with ADHD. According to DSM-IV-TR at the time, ADHD behaviors were classified into two categories “a persistent patterns of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity” (Foley, 2011). ADHD can affect multiple aspects of a child/adolescent’s life. Inattentive behaviors can be being preoccupied with thoughts and not paying attention to detail, make careless mistakes, carelessness, forgetful, not following directions, and easily sidetracked. Behaviors that are associated with hyperactive can be impulsive behaviors, increased activity, have difficulty waiting for their turn, overly talking, and interrupting. “A clinical diagnosis for ADHD includes the presence of six or more symptoms in either of the two groups; symptoms must be present before age 7 and problematic for at least 6 months” (Foley, 2011). The more adversity indicators (large family, maternal psychiatric illness, paternal criminality, foster care placement) present, the greater the likelihood for childhood problems. Family dysfunction such as ineffective communication, parental conflicts, and unorganized family were higher in families with children who had ADHD versus

parents do; in a silent manner, that is indirect and manipulative. They are forced to live by these

Introduction: The theoretical approach that best suites the family during this session is “Structural Functionalism.” This basic assumptions of this approach identifies that all systems must work together to function properly and the function of families is to procreate and socialize children. Terminology that is used within the concept: structure, function instrumental, expressive, equilibrium, the benchmark family, deviant behavior, conformity, innovation, ritualism, retreatism, and rebellion.

Dysfunctional families breed dysfunctional children. This can stay with them all the way up to their marriage and is most likely to occur in their relationship. According to research done by the University of Chicago ( published in the journal of Abnormal Child Psychology) social skills can be interpreted as everything from the basic “please and thank you” to speaking in large crowds. How parents deal with that is just as important for the child as the violence they are being exposed to. In the end, they both affect the child one way or another.

The culture of the staff is one of a dysfunctional family. They communicate, but not always in the most effective and efficient ways. Also, they talk about each other and give each other grief. At the end of the day, they genuinely care and love each other. Because of this dynamic, collaboration and communication is strained at times, because everyone likes doing their own thing. They do ask each other for opinions, but do not necessarily take each other’s advice.

Next, underlying crisis Vance argues about a dysfunctional family which was also cause of poverty and drug addiction. It had a significant impact on the author’s mind and an education. The poor family environment was never productive for a growth and development of the children. The author reports the impact of ACEs on the psychological growth, education, and health of the children. Because of this trauma children underperform at the school and suffer from relationship problem as the author had in early days of his relationship with his wife because he also a victim of ACE.

No family is perfect, but it is how you handle situations that come up throughout life that really determines the health of your family system. The determining factors that can distinguish a healthy family system are great communication, good psychosocial development, a decent self-concept, social skills, as well as individualistic orientation. A healthy family will have conflicts and arguments, but it is how they get past those difficult

In addition, a healthy family also help each other as well as accepting each other for whom they are. Nevertheless, the family’s power to adapt while going through these challenges will solely depend on the ordinary and extraordinary stresses and strains it encounters and its available resources such as, family and friends (Anderson & Sabatelli, 2011).