Gender Roles Of Dan And Claudia

She touches on the cases of Kip Kinkel, Sam Manzie, and the movie “The Bad Seed”. Kinkel and Manzie received help at a younger age before they committed their crimes; there is irony that lies in that. The fact that Kinkel had been hearing voices or that Manzie’s Sega Genesis couldn’t be reached are not excuses to Quindlen. Through the author’s use of logos and ethos, she allows the audience to view the situation differently. Her logos is seen through a cause and effect dynamic. In both cases of the boys’ crimes, their psychological problems were the reason of their actions. Ironically enough, when the parents spent too much time focusing on the psychologist and not their child, the treatment did not work. When neither the parents nor the psychologist cared enough about the child’s mental health state, the treatment did not work either. This highlights the importance of the needed balance between home and doctor care. Both cases show ethos, along with “The Bad Seed”. Quindlen possess a disturbed attitude towards this movie. The movie portrays the punishment of children in this case for having struggles. This creates another reason why teenagers silence their problems; to avoid further negativity from those who

1. The following paper discusses a case scenario of Adrian, Judy, and Pam. The family is presenting to therapy in regards to their concern about their adult daughter (Pam) not listening to her parents (Adrian and Judy) requests. From the beginning of the session, it is apparent each member has a different view of what their role is in the family. Roles are vital in ensuring healthy family functioning and should be clearly defined so that each member understands what they are to accomplish (Tobin, 2016a). It is revealed later into the session that Judy and Adrian were not able to conceive children, so they adopted both Pam and their deceased son, Victor. Victor committed suicide ten years ago.

The family entered into therapy by believing that Claudia was their entire problem and that her actions alone were the root of their problem. As noted before, she was just the perceived problem. And in order for the parents to see that Claudia was only the perceived problem the therapists reversed the blame that the parents had projected on to their daughter. I believe this technique was most striking. Through the art of helping the family to view their situation differently, the therapists initiated change allowing the family to step outside their norm and see that their failure in marriage was affecting their parenting abilities. The therapists then gave Claudia meaning in reducing her feeling of failure and at the same time proposed the more serious problem that the parents had slowly began drifting away from each other.

The problem that brought Debbie, Fiona, and Frank to counseling was Debbie’s pregnancy. Fiona would like Debbie to live as normal of life as possible and terminate the pregnancy so she can finish school and be a teenager. On the other hand, Frank is excited about Debbie’s pregnancy and is pushing her to keep the child. Due to the ongoing argument between Frank and Fiona, Debbie has not been able to voice her opinion about her pregnancy. According to structural family therapy, the family is a whole and in order for symptoms to be relieved, change within the family’s structure must occur (Gladding, 2015). Therefore, the underlying presenting problem is the insertion of Frank into the family and his power

During the second session, the family was provided individual opportunities to relate his or her perceptions of the struggles in the family. Using Claudia as the identified patient, the family related struggles directly associated with Claudia’s behavior (Nichols, 2013, p. 15). Whitaker (1978) conceptualized the issues in a different perspective stating, “sounds like Claudia is in charge of getting Mom and Dad to start fighting, and you and Laura are in charge of helping them stop” (p. 11). Whitaker also indicated the parallels involving Carolyn’s anger at Claudia for hiding in her room and David’s propensity to hide in his study (p. 11). Using the unconscious frame of reference from session one, another conceptualization that was presented was that of Don’s willingness to talk as the reason that the family had not wanted to bring him to the first session (p. 12).

Resistance of certain clients to group therapy is among the many challenges that therapists commonly face. George seeks to detach himself from the problem and sees his role in the family as that of a saint. Being the apparent head of the family

Throughout this chapter, the reader is faced with Equality being captured and interrogated. His emotions are beaten and dazed, but his true intentions of a brighter future still surface. The reader themselves are facing moments such as, “We had been caught” (page 63) and “Lash them until they talk” (page 64). This forces the reader stay on the edge of their seats. They feel such deep emotions and develop a connection with Equality its hard no to feel pity and hope the best for him and his life. The reader wants his wellbeing, but this chapter was the exact opposite of this. His hope for escape and his recalcitrant success makes most readers feel nervous and

In this story, it fascinated me when it made reference about the therapist needing to be transferable to the mother or father role in the family regardless of the therapist’s sex. In this case the clients are the traditional mother and father with two male co-therapists. Whitaker was seen taking on the maternal role when addressing Carolyn’s childhood and current issues with her mother while Napier observed the conversation. This was a great part of the book which portrayed isomorphism. This idea of being able to stay neutral as well as to identify with the role of mother or father adds another layer of complexity to help guide the context of the situation.

The model to use with the Jacques family would be the cognitive-behavior. The cognitive-behavior therapy offers different treatment. These treatments include adjunctive interventions, communal needs, and aversive control (Wetchler et. al., 2015). The adjunctive interventions would be to look at their behavior interaction. This would include that the Jacques family becomes aware of their communication skills. Communal needs involve the Jacques family learning intimacy, nurturance, and

The following treatment plan will look at the Jarrett family, an upper-class family that struggles with the death of the oldest son, Buck. After the last harsh confrontation with her husband (Calvin), Beth decided to run away to Houston and leave the family. Without knowing if Beth wants to come back, Calvin and Conrad join therapy to face this delicate situation. By considering this information, our treatment plan will look at their family dynamics from three theoretical perspectives: Bowenian family therapy, Structural Family therapy, and Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapy.

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.

In this paper I will be describing how the first two session of the Brice family went. I will talk about what systems approach to therapy was used, and will include how Whitaker and Napier conceptualized the family’s difficulties. I will also describe how this differs from an individual understanding, and will talk about what specific interventions they used to support their systemic understanding of this family.

What was most interesting to me, the book was faced to parents, teachers, or leaders to help them develop these physical, cognitive, social/emotional developments but through teaching the children these things the parents are also developing themselves as well in many ways. The four-step approach was something that would be beneficial in any situation and it is also helpful for children. Little girls really can be mean and what this book faced a lot was about how parents and little girls can see and face it but what they didn’t focus on as much as recognizing when a little girl was being the bully. There are always two sides of the story, but the bully could be completely happy and mom doesn’t know anything is wrong and the little girl being bullied has a mom who is using the four-step approach to help her daughter stand up to a

Considering the case of the given vignette, I choose to work with Strategic Family Therapy for the treatment of Mary Gonzales’s family. The family developed a culture of their own where the younger child of the family, Gladys, developed an attitude of valuing her Mary’s autonomy since her very early ages. According to Watzlawic, et al., (1967), people maintain some axioms while communicating. The first of axiom is, people are always communicating. In this given vignette, the younger child Gladys also developed a mechanism of communication.

For Mark and Brianna, I select the Milan mainly because, from the history presented, I’ve already formulated a hypothesis. That hypothesis is that a traumatic event occurred – Mark lost his job – and the family is not dealing with that in a constructive manner. The Milan approach allows me to test my hypothesis at the first appointment with the couple and adapt the counseling plan as needed. According to Reiter, the therapist must understand the family system outside of labels by changing the family perception of who is “good” and who is “bad.” (Reiter, 2013, p. 149)