Family Intimate Relationship Interview

I interviewed three different family member of all different age that have experienced my family culture in their own way. For my interview I interviewed My mother Okala Mundeke. She is originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo but she moved to America when she was 35 years old and she is now 50 years old. She has grown up mostly in Congo so she has a strong knowledge of our heritage and family history since she was around it more.. My sister Emmanuella Kalonda she was born in the congo but has little memory of it since she was less than a year old when she came to america. she is currently sixteen years old. But she was raised with my mother learning about family and our culture. My next candidate is my other sister Jocelyn Fetner

As I embarked on this assignment I was unsure how to begin and what stories to tell. I did not know if I should commence with how my family came to America, my family tree, or a fascinating story about how my grandparents met. In order to complete this assignment I convened with my grandfather, Earl W. Stafford Sr., who knows a lot about our family history, to learn as much as I could.

For the professional practice interview, I interviewed Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Joe Exnowski. He has been working with my population of interest for the past four years. He works with an array of students dealing with anxiety, depression, stress, and substance use and abuse. In addition, to working with this population across different college campuses, he also works with couples in private practice. I conducted a 15-minute interview in which we had the opportunity to explore the pros and cons about working with this specific population more in particular, in regards to alcohol use and abuse.

An important part of our education and growing experience originates from our skill to analyze and reflect upon groups we are and have been apart of. This refection can enable us to analyze our strengths and weakness of ourselves in others in the group. By doing this, we can better ourselves in the group setting and strengthen how we work with others. The group I will be analyzing in this paper is the Dutton Family. The Dutton Family consists of fourteen people in the immediate family. For the purpose of the family’s privacy, I will be using pseudonym for each member. Barbara and Bob are the parents of the Dutton family; they had four children of their own, who we will refer to as, K, J, B, and T. K married M and they had two children together,

There is an old African saying, “when an elder dies, it is as if an entire library has burned to the ground.” This happens to be the case when it comes to my family history. Unfortunately, my grandparents on both sides of my family have past away and the rest live across the world which can be difficult to contact. My parent’s are going to be my sources for this assignment. They both have provided me with information about their childhood and the lives of my grandparent’s. By using the stories provided from Deborah A. Miranda’s book Bad Indians, I will compare and contrast the lives of my family to hers.

While my grandfather, Frank Smith, and my great-grandmother, Jeannette Smith, were alive they resided in my home. I never met my grandmother, Georgie Smith, as she passed away when my mother was seven.

Are there any rules or specific roles you have set with your family to help incorporate a more functional routine?

I took the Implicit Association test, and I was not surprised by the results received. I took the Gender-Career IAT test and the result was correct. However, I do think the result have a lot to do with my environment, as well as, my living situation as a child. My test result suggests a moderate association of Male with Career and Female with Family compared to Female with Career and Male with Family. The result of my test was 24% association male with career and female with family, 32% moderate automatic association of male with career and female with family, and 0% slight automatic association of male with career and female with family.

Ethnicity differences are apparent from one family to another. Language, beliefs, and values passed down from our ancestors define who we are in the world. As America becomes more diverse, it is important to understand how a family’s culture can influence differences from your own. I will be comparing and contrasting family life’s between African Americans and Europeans. As a person with European descent, I have experienced many situations where my views have conflicted with those from other cultures. The object of the research is to better understand the difference between cultures and express value in unique families. I believe it is every human being’s responsibility to understand and appreciate other families for who they are.

For this assignment, I interviewed my wonderful mother Joan. I asked her for her opinion on the topics of marriage, sibling relationships, and grandparent relationships. She provided insightful answers that revealed a great deal about her values.

If I had the opportunity to interview anyone in my family, it would my Grandma. She was born in Spain and lived there most her life. I would ask her about the Spanish culture and what it was like to live there, what she wore, what she ate, where she lived and what her friends and family were like. I love Spain and it would so much fun to learn all about it!

provide for his family. When he turned 18, he decided to make the journey to the United States to better his future, as opportunities in El Salvador were stagnant. His father came from a small town in El Salvador, where the only choices for work were agriculturally or factory based. While he did not want to work on a farm in El Salvador once arriving in the United States in the 1980’s, he found a job working in the farming industry. To him, the industry here provided much more than his home country.

Is there a family get-together that everyone attends? Do you and your family have certain rules about eating together? Are you allowed to be on your phone? Or do you all hang out on a sunday together? Culture is what brings so many families close together.

As promised, Doctor Early contacted Karl Druthers and explained about the DeSoto’s desire to take Johnny in as a family member. For Karl, it wasn’t difficult to accept the plea for help and times were scheduled beginning the next day. Roy was the first to attend a therapy session and as he made his way to the 8th floor to meet with Dr. Druthers, he examined his reluctance at the idea of going to see him.

My family health assessment was conducted using the 11 Gordon functional health pattern. Marjorie Gordon’s functional health pattern is a guide for establishing a comprehensive nursing date base, using the 11 categories enable nurses determines the following aspects of health and human function (Gordon 1987). The Gordon 11 functional health patterns are health perception/health management, nutrition, elimination, activity/exercise, cognitive, sleep/rest, self perception/self concept, roles and relationships, sexuality and reproduction, coping and stress tolerance, values and belief. This paper will summarize the findings of each health pattern as well as the family based nursing