Mental Violence And Its Effects On Children

The other family had like one or two issues while the nguyen had at least four issues. The Williams family had some issue with there father cheating on the wife and she acting perfectly fine saying stuff like,” Our thanksgiving is perfect and we have no issues.” Also the grandmother in the Williams family was egging on the mother about where their son Michael was Audrey kept responding saying “He’s busy and he won’t be able to come.” The Seelig family Had two main issue one being that the daughter is Rachel was lesbian and jerry was gay, which come to my second issue being that Rachel was pregnant and jerry was the donor But the father didn’t believe rachel he kept on denying it saying stuff like,”But jerrys gay? How can he be the father?!” that was really the only issue in that family. The Avila Family really had one issue and it was centered around the father, early on in the children life the father cheated on the wife and left them in the dust, now he came back and the ex wife has a new boyfriend and the two meet, the ex-father claims there still married but the mother yelled” You left us and abandon the children you made how could you come back and claim to still be there father after what you did?!” The ex-father begged for forgivness he said thing like” Im sorry for leaving you i want to make this up i want to get together again and have a happy family.” But the

Mrs. Tiffany Maxwell has a semi-large family. Her mother is African American and her father is Asian. The two have six children together, three boys and three girls. All in which she was once extremely close to. Of all her family, only three individuals live in the Maxwell household. Tiffany and her daughter live there full time. Tiffany’s daughter is five years old and her name is Mariah. She is not her husband’s biological daughter. Her husband, Ronald Maxwell, lives in the home part-time. Since the two have separated he stays at the house when he wants, because he is still paying the bills.

Jack and Diane have two children, Tom who is 5 and Jane who is 3. Other salient family members include Jack’s mother, who is married and lives out of state, but is often called upon during problematic times. The couple met when seven years ago when Jack was near Diane on business and were married within a year. Jack and Diane are both white middle class Americans. They live in California most of the time, but Jack is often away on business. The times that the couple are apart are the hardest because Diane is used to doing everything with Jack. When he is away, they often text, call and skype to keep in touch. Currently, the couple is seeking therapy for marital problems including trust problems and anger/conflict problems as their presenting concerns. The children are described as being good children, although they have concerns that the marital problems may be having an impact on their older child Tom. Over the last few months, Tom has been acting out towards his mother, and has not been listening to her. Each marital distress symptom has emerged at different times, but have compounded until they felt high enough severity for Jack and Diane to seek treatment

Each member of the family is experiencing problems within the context of the family and other super systems they are involved in. Joel and Julia are reconciling after a yearlong separation.

The feud between these families was so intense that it took a double suicide to make the parents realize, it just shows you have to be aware of what is

Experiential family therapy is a general theoretical model that has evolved since its beginnings in the 1950’s to include current models like Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy and internal family systems model. Grounded in the belief that dysfunction in the family comes from suppressed emotions, experiential therapy endeavors to create experiences in the here-and- now that will allow families to examine their internal processes, and not get stuck at the intellectual level of problem-solution or cognition. Experiential therapists encourage transformation through individuation and self-actualization, believing that to bring a

Maybe my family had joined the witness-protection program” (Anderson 27). This is important because Tyler feel lonely and doesn’t have his family beside him. It’s hard for him to get along with his dad and his sister. Tyler, his sister Hannah, and his parents don’t usually bond together as a family. They’re too busy doing their own things.

On June 27, 2008, Kristi Birkeland gave birth to identical triplet boys. Their father, Jack, who was mixed up with the wrong people was around for only five years of Tee, Fletcher, and Cruz’s lives until one day he quit coming around. From then on Kristi raised the three boys all by herself and figured her deadbeat husband Jack had once again gotten himself in trouble. Like their father, even at a young age Cruz and Tee were always in trouble, but Fletcher was different, he was quieter. Twelve years had passed and the boys were seniors in high school. Fletcher was the star on the high school football team and had scouts from all over watching him, his brothers, on the other hand, were too busy getting in trouble. The summer after he graduated, Fletcher worked all summer until that fall,

Regina, three of her siblings, and their mom, who they call Cookie, live in Long Island, New York and tend to not live in a place for long, They don’t have much money to spend on a decent house, car, or clothes because Cookie always spent her money on things that she didn’t need. Growing up Regina had two older siblings, Cherie and Camille, who came from a different father than Regina and her two younger siblings, Norman and Rosie, who also came from different fathers than Regina. One day the family left their old home to go to a new place to live, which Cookie finally got enough money to afford a two story house with no neighbors around. Cookie never treated any of the kids nicely. She would kick them, throw them, punch them, and call them

The children's (Audrie, Patrick, and Charlotte) stated that their mom (Margaret) does not take care of them. The children stated that they are not safe with the Margaret. The children stated that they do not want to live with Margaret. The children stated that Margaret whips them. Margaret's friend Joy whipped them on their butts, and the unknown neighbor whipped them. It is unknown when this occurred. Margaret was asked was this truth about the neighbor whipped Patrick. Margaret stated that: "Patrick was lying."The children do not have any bruises on them.

The Morgan family members are Caucasian and live in Tampa, Florida. Clare Morgan is a 42 year old twice divorced woman who works as a Bank Administrator for Bank of America. In Clare’s first marriage she had her first son Justin but after a month her husband divorced her. In Clare’s second marriage, her husband did not want to have kids and left her while she was pregnant with her second child Cody. Justin is now 15 years old football player in high school. Cody is 8 years old in elementary school, who play baseball for the local little league. Both children are A students however neither father choose to keep in contact with them. Lately, Justin has become rebellious and Cody feels the lack of communication from his father is his fault.

Another game he liked to play was making Jane or Mum start fights with people who live near them.. These kind of situations put them in a difficult positon because they are placed in a situation where their mindset is thinking cause pain to others so no pain is inflected on me. Jane showed signs of posttraumatic stress disorder when she moved out. She was always scared of leaving her place because she didn’t want Richard to find her (Elliott, 2005). She was scared of him spending so much time with her daughter because she didn’t want her daughter to go through what she did with Richard. The posttraumatic stress disorder would also effect her relationship since she was scared to trust others or get to close to others (Elliott, 2005). One of the ways Jane coped with her posttraumatic stress disorder was by substance abuse. She drank whenever Emma was at daycare (Elliott, 2005). It would start out with a glass of wine or two and then it would be bottle after bottle of wine (Elliott, 2005). Jane started seeing a doctor, who she would constantly tell that she needed help. Her doctor didn’t understand why she needed help, so a counselor was not recommended immediately. Once the counselor was recommended, Jane started to attend, but then

In a small town was a family. This family was the type that always liked being together, it did not matter what they did as long as they did it together. They were a family of five, two girls, Rose and Sara, a boy, Ronnie and the parents, Cynthia and Alfonso. The kids always got what they wanted, everything was fine, until Alfonso's drinking got out of control. Cynthia and Alfonso worked at the same place except they were on different shifts. She was worked second shift while he did first shift. So that meant that he was at home with the kids after school. He was never home though, the kids never knew where he was. Cynthia would try her best to run around and do errands and cook dinner before leaving for work, but her time management wasn't

Conflict perspective- Ms. Johnson is experiencing the conflict perspective, due to the kids moving in with her. She is used to living alone and living on a very conservative budget to support herself. Eventually, with Ron and Rosalind coming to live her living arrangements and financially will drastically change. Ms. Johnson is feeling a little of psychodynamic perspective also with the kids living with her. She expresses to the social worker that they are driving her a little crazy. Fortunately, Shirley enrolled the kids in preschool before she was sent to prison. This gives Ron and Rosalind a social support. They will be in a safe environment and they will be learning things to help prepare them for school. The kid’s physical and cognitive

Sam is a seven-year-old boy with a younger brother named Riley, who is 5 years old. Sam’s mother, Kimberly, is 31 years old and Sam’s father, Casey, is 32 years old. Both are also the parents of the younger brother Riley. Sam’s mother and father were married for four years then they got divorced. Kimberly, the mother, moved out of the family home and into a home of a man, Danny, that she was taking care of as her job. The children were to spend the majority of the time with her, the mother, while Casey, the father, got the kids on the weekends. Both of the boys have a history of asthma but other than that they are healthy. Kimberly works from the home because she has been caring for Danny. Kimberly and Casey were not happy with each other. They tried not to fight or argue in front of the children. Sam is not comfortable at Danny’s house. He feels like his mother pays more attention to Danny than she does to him or his brother, Riley. He wants to live with his father, Casey. After the separation and divorce and the eventual move out of the only home he has ever known, Sam begins to develop some emotional upset. He shouts at Riley for no reason. He shouts at his mother and often refuses