Explain How To Assess The Population Of Custodial Grandparents

According to the vignette, I feel most comfortable choosing Bowenian family therapy as the pioneer approach and narrative family therapy as the postmodern approach for this family. Of course, that decision would be according to the family needs and if they were unreceptive, I would modify my approach. For the purposes of this paper, the approaches mentioned above are the two that might be most appropriate to proceed through assessment and treatment.

Multiple studies have reported grandparents adopted the responsibility of caring for children, especially in cases of maternal incarceration (Burnette, 1999; Dressel and Barnhill, 1990; Fuller-Thompson, Minkler, and Driver, 1997). Morgan et al (2014) report that 'becoming a custodial grandparent constitutes a major, unexpected role transition in the life course of older adults'. This role can be physically, emotional and financially demanding on grandparents and has been reported to increase the risk of depression and multiple chronic health problems (Burton, 1992; Minkler and Roe, 1993; Poehlmann, 2003). Grandparents may also experience the same guilt and stigma associated with having a loved one in prison (Dressel and Barnhill, 1994; Minkler, 1999; Pinson-Millburn et al., 1996). Turanovic, Rodriguez and Pratt (2012) report that often grandparents can feel as though they are to blame for not providing good enough parenting to their own child, thus, feel a duty to support their grandchildren. Additionally, as this childcare is most likely to take place on an 'informal basis', Grandparents are less likely to receive childcare benefits or support (Beltran, 2001, Hayslip and Kaminski, 2005). With this said, at lot of the samples discussed originate from the USA and may not be generalisable to a UK population. It may be interesting to explore if this grandparent caring responsibility is consistent among a UK sample. As financial hardship seems to be a reoccurring theme within the literature this research shall also include a professional from the welfare sector to explore the sources of support for prisoner's families within this

As a child, the perspective of a parent is very shallow. The child views a parent as the caregiver, the disciplinary, the homemaker, and the provider but do they see their parents own needs? Most can answer as a no, as children are naturally only self-aware. Then we look at the adulthood year and the parent becomes more a person outside of the caregiver status. The parent and child relationship changes, no longer is the parent providing all the needs for the child and the child grows to see the parent in more of a role of a person who has their own struggles, they have their own past, their own emotional and physical needs they need met as well. The child and parent relationship evolves over the years, we see that the child learns of the parents history, the child sees the parent in a different light and we see this in

Often, therapy is significant if the family changes its perception of a situation or discovers exceptions to troublesome times. Regardless, whatever the family brings to therapy is examined from a broad context. The past is not emphasized, except when it calls attention to the present. (Gladding, 2009)

Further evaluation of the attachment theory is explored through projects such as, Through the Looking Glass (TtLG) project. This program was devised to refocus the relationship development between caregiver and child. In this project, a healthcare professional works with both caregiver and child, offering technique and guidance. The purpose of this guided experience is to show collaborative efforts, supporting the enhancement and growth in parent and child relationships (Kaye Colmer, 2011). This article gives an example of program implementations based on research

The loss of mutual resources between the caregiver and the elder contributes to the erosion of their relationship. The caregiver perceives that their care of

The therapist and the client met with the client's parents via webcam for a conjoint session. The client started the session by sharing with his parents his expectations about his parents’ duties when he will graduate from the program. The client seemed anxious because he was not sure about his parents’ reaction towards what he expected from them as he reported that he has a bad experience with them when they were sarcastic and judgmental with him before. The therapist engaged the client and his parents in a discussion about his progress thus far in treatment. The client's parents shared that they are open and willing to listen to his expectations because they want to help him and they want to change their attitude to be not just parents, but

Thus, intergenerational and psychoanalytic family therapies “share several key concepts and practices: examining a client’s early relationships to understand present functioning; tracing transgenerational and extended family dynamics to understand a client’s complaints; promoting

To start the chapter text states that many grandparents who live close or in the home of their grandchild assume a influential grandparenting role. This means that the grandparent plays a active role in the childs life and takes on parental responsiblilies. Similar to this in the “cultural influences” it states that “African American grandmothers who live with their daughters and their children frequently become involved in rearing their grandchildren.”(428) In both of these text it shows the idea that grandparents sharing a home with the grandchild usally become parental figures to the child taking responsibility away from the parent. This is similar to my view that grandparents assume the role of parents when sharing a home with the child. This is beneficial to the child in most cases as stated by both the chapter text and “cultural influences” section. These text provide evidentce that having a grandparent in the home provides the child with a better support system and keeps them out of trouble because they are in a stable home and being parented. This although can be beneficial can also be harmful based on my view for the child and parent. With the grandparent sharing the home and taking on that parential role it allows the child to view their actual parent as less than a parent because they have not played that role. This can cause a disobiedient child aswell as a rebel child. The three

For this written assignment, I will discuss a time in my nursing practice when I used an intervention with a family using each of the four types of approaches, such as: family as context, family as client, family as system, and family as component of society. These four approaches are essential in family nursing care (Kaakinen, Coehlo, Steele, Tabacco, & Hansen, 2015). After discussing the interventions used in each of these four types of approaches, I will provide a conclusion.

Family psychotherapy – this aims to resolve conflicts and tension exacerbated by dementia between family members.

Among the eight themes that were identified in the previous chapter, the outstanding theme that emerged across nearly all the studies was ‘depression’. This was followed closely by ‘need for support’. The next two most common themes were ‘profound grief’ and ‘social isolation’. Within the qualitative synthesis, three themes: ‘couples’ relationship’, ‘siblings’ issues’ and ‘return to normality’ seemed to be of relatively equal importance. However, two of these themes (couples’ relationship and siblings’ issues) have the same connotation and seemed to point at similar issues relating to impacts on the family. Of least importance was the theme of ‘recovery’ which is arguably an intangible benefit and is therefore irrelevant to the aim of the dissertation.

In instances when the grandparent stands in loco parentis to the child or acted as a parent to the child forming a meaningful relationship with them over a substantial period of time, they may request legal decision-making. Several additional requirements must be meet in this situation.

In the process of establishing a relationship with the family, there occurs the assessment process. In the assessment stage, the counsellor collaborates with the family to uncover the presenting problems. According to Hackney and Cormier (2013) problems may be conceptualized in various ways: as needs, stressors, life conditions, misinterpretations, dysfunctional social patterns, or a combination of these determinants. For Max’s case I chose to utilize approaches and techniques from Minuchin’s Structural Family Theory for the assessment and support/intervention stages. However, though the genogram in not a SFT techniques, it is a useful rapport building and assessment tool.

A web-based survey will be used to obtain demographic information on participants’ gender, age, and racial ethnicity. Participants will be administered a battery of paper, pencil self-report questionnaires incorporated to measure the constructs of instrumental sibling parentification and psychological wellbeing. Data will be collected using the Hooper’s Parentification Questionnaire, The Filial Responsibilities scale- Adult, The Satisfaction with Life scale, The Ryff Scales of Psychological Wellbeing, and The Weinberger Adjustment inventory. The Hooper’s Parentification Questionnaire is a 42-item, true-false self-report instrument designed to assess participant memories of taking care of parental responsibilities in childhood. The Filial Responsibilities Scale- Adult is a retrospective self-report measure given to evaluate participant’s histories of parentification with their primary caregiver. The Satisfaction with Life Scale is used to assess individuals’ satisfaction with life as a whole. The Ryff Scales of Psychological Wellbeing is a 6-dimensional 42-item scale that measures an individual’s