My Family: A Therapeutic Analysis

The movie Ordinary People is a movie which looks at a family struck by tragedy, It shows how an upper middle-class family handles life when tragedy strikes unexpectedly, and family order is turned into chaos. The movie in essence sheds light into a family, due to a tragedy, has turned into separate individuals living in the same house, who lack of communicating their grief effectively. The movie was shown through a realistic lens, without over dramatization; looked into misplaced guilt at every level. The inability of the family to work through the tragedies lead them to a place where they each felt a breakdown within each other as well as the family dynamic.

Families, as units, are extremely complex and vary drastically from one another. A person might be under the impression that his or her own family is nothing special, especially if they are accustomed to their family’s routines. After analyzing my own family through the sociological lenses of an assortment of scholars, it is now clear that it is not as simple as it seems. Sociologically analyzing my family through the divorces that have occurred in my life makes it clear that divorce can have an impact on a variety of family dynamics, such as my parents and their jobs and domestic duties, the amount of involvement they have with their friends and family, as well as my financial dependence on my parents.

“The Psychodynamics of the Family”, taken from The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender, published in 1978, remains one of Nancy Chodorow most influential works.

I receive little to no financial support for school. The little financial support that I had completely diminished when my mother became remarkably sick. She was rushed to the emergency room where we later found out she had a C5 and C6 herniation that was severing her spine, causing severe neuropathy. Her condition threatened to make her a quadriplegic if not dealt with right away. She was taken into emergency surgery the day of her diagnosis due to the severity of her condition. I am the oldest of 4 so all eyes were on

Structural therapy is a family treatment model founded on the frameworks of systems theory. The distinctive component of this model is the emphasis it has placed on structural adjustments as the primary objective of the therapy session. This emphasis is prominent over details of adjustments in individual behaviors. This model is distinctive because the therapist is the most active agent and receives much attention in the course of family restructuring (Lock & Strong, 2012).

Families of Origin have significant impacts on how individuals view their future relationships. This is especially apparent when problems arise among couples. The ways that parents teach their children how to approach the different roles in intimate relationships can replay itself repeatedly.

The history of family therapy began around 1960, when Gregory Bateson coined the term, “system thinking.” This type of therapy was a daring departure, both technically and philosophically, from traditional and individual treatment during the 1960s. Gregory Bateson was inspired. He felt that the unit known, as “the family” needed to be celebrated and that is exactly what he did” (Family Therapy, 2010, Para 1) Along with Gregory Bateson, are a list of several others who contributed to the evolution of Marriage and family counseling. This list includes the founder of social work, Mary Richmond, Mr. W. James, who researched the organic expression of social systems intervention and Mr. J. Dewey. Each of these

Family therapy is essential to working with clients because it helps social workers connect the patterns within each family. According to Nichols, “family therapy considers how problems may be a product of the relationships surrounding them” (p. 50). It can help health professionals understand why there is problematic behavior in family members through the context of the family dynamics and relationships. Family therapy is how we aid our clients in understanding these relationships, and how we help them solve and work through the family problems. This paper will discuss, assess, and provide treatment goals for the Taylor family using the Structural Family Therapy perspective.

Family Therapy, sometimes called family focus therapy or family systems therapy is a style of psychological therapy that works to revolution the relationships within families to help them better cope with varies problems. Family therapy aids family members find constructive ways to support each other. Family therapy can be beneficial in childhood and adult situations as well as conduct and mood disorders, eating disorders, drug abuse and psychiatric illnesses as well as couples suffering difficulties.

The family has not expressed ambivalence but they need to improve their relationship with Randel. Ms. Wanda Ferguson and Randel do not get along with each other and do not talk. Mr. Johnny Boggs also find himself closer enough to Wanda's husband, Charles. Ms. Wanda and Randel has refused to work in family therapy to improve their relationship; however, Mr. Charles thinks she may be open. Mr. Boggs wants other family members to be involved with Randel due to his physical limitations and inability to provide effective supervision. Mr. Charles keeps himself available to Randel for discussion, advice, and support; however, Randel remains withdrawn. While reporting Randel's previous illegal drug use all family members had tried to minimize, but

We originally chose this theory because we believe family plays a huge role within the patient’s healing process. However, after research, we realized the theory was not directly liked to the patient but instead to the family as whole and their ability to deal with the disease process, stressor, or crisis that might emerge. However, the family’s adaptation or coping affects the patient's

The family is the fundamental unit of society. In it, the human being is born, grows and develops. Ideally, in this natural environment, its members remain stable relationships sharing and meeting their basic needs. These relationships should be intimate, loving, respectful, when living conditions allow its members to develop as autonomous and social at the same time people. Family therapy studies the development of the family and the operation of this. To meet the basic material and psychological needs, ensures the development of stable, integrated, mature emotionally and makes possible a constructive interpersonal functioning by providing an appropriate, durable, consistent, and intimate and underwriter average adult human personalities.

My theoretical approach to family therapy is very integrative as I believe families cannot be described nor treated from a single-school approach. I view humans through a humanistic and existential lens but am more technically structural and solution-based. With this integrative approach, I believe I will be the most effective in helping families grow and reach their goals.

Have you ever had a time of in your life where everything goes your way? That you can get anything you want in your wildest dreams? That’s my entire life, sounds wonderful don’t it? Well at first yes , you’d be right but not anymore not after learning the truth of my family and the reason why we have so much. My family turns out to be the head family in a criminal organization called Luna , this sudden realization came from when I turned 10, many of the people that surrounded started to change , they started to fear me like I was some kind of monster and they were right as eldest son of the current boss i was next in line for the throne which granted me lot’s of power within the organization, but also it gained lot’s of respect but this respect was mostly based on fear,I could never tell if people were being generously nice to me or were they just out to get on my good side for their own benefit. My parents are not much better i barely spend time with my mother or father and mostly hear about their achievements through my uncle’s monologues when we study about history. Did i mention that i’m homeschooled? Yeah with my parents reputation having the cops or rival organizations find out about their son could lead to complications to say the least, but even so my father doesn’t like to take chances and i was beaten , trained ,and

”No one is ever born into Life alone. Everyone has shared the bond of family, at least at birth, and for many people it is a bond that will follow them throughout life. For many people it is the most important bond of all.”