Family Origin Theories

JM is very healthy young boy with no history of any complication disease. He has allergy to peanuts. JM’s mother said if he eats peanuts he starts itching and his eczema start. No known drug allergies. He does not take any routine medication. JM has never been hospitalization. His mother states that JM is up to date with the immunizations and last time to see his physician was December last year for year checkup and he see his dentist every six months.

Structure, “something arranged in a definite pattern of organization” (Merriam-Webster, 2016) Most people are exposed to structure from the beginning. The child's first example of structure is understanding family structure. Your mother is usually the first tier supervisor; she sets the rules on meal times, play times, and rest times. What is more, If you don’t follow the instructions given; you may receive some type of discipline. If the child / employee does not respond to the first line supervisor; eventually, the issues are then moved up the to the next level of management the father / manager. Indeed, Wait until your father gets home” or wait until the manager gets here.

Power, dynamics and stress have an effect on family and marriage livelihood. Family and marriage examinations help therapists to identify relational developments, family developments and the stress factors involved. The therapists are able to determine the systemic aspects seen in a family relationship through establishing time for dialogical communications (Harold Goolishian, 1988). The studies can either be based on fictional prospects or scientific research. The relational theories and processes involved help in studying a particular connection among the family members. Through applying psychological hypothesis in the case study, it helps people to understand the different behaviors of people.

Systems theory is a lens with which to view human behavior in relation to interactions with different systems, such as family, school, work, and community (Rogers, 2016). Assessing how families function through a systems theory lens allows social workers to examine and understand the different systems that affect the family and the individual. It is a necessary tool in identifying how a family functions in relation to the systems in which it exists as well as identifying what influences are affecting the family. Recognizing these many influences will allow the social worker to understand strengths, weaknesses, and issues of the individual members of the family, as well as the family system as a whole (Thomlison, 2010).

Avoidant personality disorder is defined as experiencing an extreme pattern of feelings of inadequacy accompanied by fear of social contact (Funder, 2013). It is difficult to imagine going through life without ever feeling inadequate, or failing at something (Funder, 2013). Avoidant personality disorder is high in the trait of neuroticism, and low in extraversion (Funder, 2013). An adaptive trait associated with avoidant personality disorder is a person who is sensitive, quiet and essentially a homebody (Funder, 2013).

It known as the anxious and fearful Cluster. It includes avoidant, obsessive-compulsive and dependent personality disorder. They all have a genetic association to anxiety. Individuals who are shy, timid, and socially inhibited characterize the avoidant personality disorder. They have extremely low self-esteem, and see themselves as incapable, inadequate and undesirable. This people want close relationships, but rarely take social risks. As a result, they avoid social situations, which makes it harder for them to meet people. They are also hypersensitive to rejection and negative feedback, becoming even more withdrawn when that happens.

Avoidant personality disorder is an anxious personality disorder characterized by extreme levels of discomfort in public, beliefs in one’s relative inadequacy, and sensitivity to criticism (Comer 425). Oftentimes, people with this condition prefer to be solitary over risking rejection by the outside world (Avoidant); they do whatever possible to keep others from gaining the opportunity to hurt them. Some psychologists distinguish avoidant personality disorder from social anxiety disorder (Comer 425) while others believe they should not be considered separate disorders due to the significant symptom overlap and the frequency of co-occurrence (Nelson-Gray 31).

The disorder tendencies are inherited by biological factors. This could make sense, as this characters parents aren’t really introduced, his family could’ve been known to be anxious and rambunctious all the time. Study might suggest that because of his species being known for their messy life styles and easy going attitudes, he was rejected because he was too nervous to get messy with the other children, and he was also the runt of the litter. The idea that this anxiety disorder being passed on through biological factors into this character cannot actually be proven as there is no evidence for his family tree. In fact, it could be joked that he doesn’t actually have a family and is just a toy.

Mike had given a speech to Bodnar about the hardships that the men went through in the mills. He wondered if God had put him on his earth was to be worked in the furnaces. “Once I used to ask myself, Is this what the good God put me on earth for, to work my life away in Carnegie’s blast furnaces, to live and die in Braddock’s alleys? I couldn’t believe it. Now I know that God had nothing to do with it. Chance rules the world” (Bell, 197). Mike felt everyone should love the job they work in and shouldn’t feel as if they’re not appreciated. “I don’t mind work. But a man should be allowed to love his work and take pride in it” (Bell, 196).

All of these functions of a typical familial life stem from the biological perspective of the individual displaying openness to experience. For example, a study testing the role of openness to experience on the brain’s default network found that those who are high in this factor have a network that works more efficiently than those who are less. This default network is specifically useful for thinking, processing, reasoning, and several other prime functions of the brain. With this information, the individual is able “to more effectively engage the neurocognitive processes associated with this network” (Beaty, Kaufman, Benedek, Jung, Kenett, Jauk, Neubauer, and Silvia, 2015, p. 778). To go along with this, other studies have shown that

I chose number three (Family story) for my family history project because I wanted to talk about the great events that happened within our family history.

For my genius hour project, I decided that I am going to researching my family history and my family past, where my family is from. It sounds really cool to learn about my family history and where they came from? I really want to know where my family is from because I want to know where I am also from and what I have parts of the world are in me. I know that most of my family is from Europe, that is all I really knew before I started this project. But I did not know what parts of Europe my family came from. I really wish that I could know where all of my family is from and what their last names mean. My thesis for the genius hour project is to find out where my family came from, how old they were when they came to America. And did my family

The Family Tree, by Carole Cadwalledr, is a novel that attempts to overcome the patriarchal control of society by focusing on the matrilineal line of family history and genetics. The pervasive male bias in literature leads readers to equate the experience of a “good life” with the experience of being male. This misrepresentation of women’s lives produce a partial and distorted understanding of culture and society; which serves to obfuscate relations of power and reinforce the devaluation of women’s roles and contributions. Cadwalledr’s feminine model of development, based on the experiences of women within this novel, stands as a direct testimony of the rigid constrictions of the patriarchal society in which they live. Women have long been

Elliott Anderson and his wife took their granddaughter Eloise into their care after her mother died during childbirth and her father failed to take responsibility. A few years later Eloise’s grandmother whom she was really close to dies in a drastic car accident. This leaves Elliott a widow and to raise Eloise on his own. Rowenna, Eloise’s paternal grandmother feels that Eloise should live with the father’s side of the family even though Eloise has lived with Elliott her entire life; she claims that it is largely due to Elliott 's drinking problem as well as her needing to establish a relationship with her father Reggie and get in tuned with her African American cultural roots. Elliott does not want Eloise to be around her father’s bad influence since he has a criminal record, struggles with drug issues and has been very much absent from his daughter’s life. Since Rowenna and Elliott cannot come to a mutual agreement on where Eloise such live she takes action against him in court and the film from that point forward is a long custody battle and the reconciliation of a mixed race family.

According to chapter eight’s introduction “family forms are historically and culturally constructed in a global context.” (pg. 433) This means that families are often influenced by social structures within their own society and globally. Families often reinforce existing relationships of power and thusly often reflect the society from which they originate. In the United States we tend to have a very cookie cutter notion of what makes the “normal” family. As we have learned families are a product of their environment to expect all families in the U.S. to have similar characteristics is ridiculous as, in fact American society is very diverse. The stereotypical American family is with a married female mom and male dad who love each other. They are likely Christian and will have two happy and healthily children and they will all live together in nice suburban home in relative finical security. The mom will do most of the household chores and her husbands career will be more important then her own. She will, of course, accept all of these things and happily dedicate her like to the wellbeing of her family. I would like to argue that this stereotypical ideal is almost never realistic. In order to navigate day-to-day life in the U.S. we each must weave our way through a complicated net of intersectionality that ensures some degree of inequality or privilege for everyone involved. In the documentary Tough Love we saw this demonstrated. Patrick a white male with a history of drug