Social Worker: Marital Conflict And Divorce

One theory that researchers conducted an experiment in which there was a sample of children with divorced parents and a controlled sample of children in married families. Researchers examined the difference between the two to see if there was anything different in both samples. The whole idea was to see if children in the different groups reacted or behaved differently whether their parents were together or apart. In the study, the researchers established that children with divorced parents did in fact have behavioral problems, inside and out. Researchers also found that even years after the divorce it is still affecting the children involved. This stressor is the effect that divorce has on the children of the married couple who is getting divorced. This effect is ultimately high in most cases, which makes sense. Divorce impacts a lot of people in this world, and while people are divorcing left and right, they don’t take the time to see how it affects their children. The way this stressor can affect families is that the children that are in the middle sometimes have no say in what is going to happen. The stress that divorce has on children reflects in their actions and the way the act towards a certain parent. In some cases, children chose a side which results in the other parent feeling like a failure causing them to become stress about that. The behavioral problem that affects the children results

Social Scientist started to examine the family structure when they began to notice a high divorce rate that began in the 1960s. They wanted to know how divorce was affecting children mentally and if they were more likely to commit crimes than those who had both parents. Social scientist studies began to show that children who come from divorced parents tend to have more academic, behavioral, and emotional problems. When parents decide to divorce or separate, the child or children begin to stress because they know that everything is going to change and this can cause fear among the child. Studies have shown that a few children begin to adapt to their parents separation. However, more than one-third of children were clinically depressed, failing in school, had low social communication, were unable to sleep and eat, and hoped that one day their parents would get back together. Many of them

According to Galambos et al. (2006, p. 2), the management of dual relationships within social work has the potential to trigger many challenges that affect professional borderlines. These issues are more prevalent in rural settings and small communities where dual as well as multiple relations exist because of compact systems. Consequently, one common issue that is likely to arise during social service is the capacity to sustain clients’ privacy and confidentiality (Galambos, Watt and Anderson 2). Citing previous literature on the topic, the authors note that it is hard to get absolute confidentiality in rural environments. Subsequently, ethical conflicts become common between the duty of a practitioner to their client and their obligation

Another significant two-part longitudinal study took place over a 17 year period and examined a sample of 85 children of divorced families. Parents were initially interviewed in 1980 regarding marriage quality. Interviews later determined which marriages dissolved and the conflict levels of those that had not. In 1992 and 1997 interviews with the children of these divorced families were given to determine their physiological well-being,

Attachment styles influence relational patterns between a married couple and their children. These attachment relational patterns known as anxious, avoidant, and secure base styles are a product of the interactions experienced in early childhood with their caregivers. It affects people’s intercommunication with others all through their life span. Individuals’ attachment style involves a systematic pattern of relational assumptions, emotions, and behavior that develop from the subjective constructs definitive of attachment experiences throughout their lives. Negative relational patterns increase the likelihood of marital violence in the home. When experiencing stress related life issues, conflicts may arise due to substandard communication skills leading to physical violence, aggressiveness, resulting in harsh spousal disputes. A positive upswing in marital and family harmony occurs when healthy communication skills develop along with secure based attachment characteristics, such as, humility, gratitude, and forgiveness of self and others. These characteristics provide coping mechanisms that establish a positive self-identity and healthy social interaction with others. As the anxious and avoidant relational styles exercise these positive characteristics, in time, they develop a positive view of self and others while learning to work through life stressors, which benefit the marriage and family.

As a social worker, there are obligations you should abide by in the field of practice. Dual relationships should among the client and the social worker should never take place in the field of practice. The NASW Code of Ethics, section 2.07 states, social workers who decides to engage in sexual intercourse with their client’s, will suffered many consequences for their actions. (NASW Assembly, 2008).

What is the modern family? Today the modern family is completely different then what it was twenty years ago. Today, it is more common to have a family with divorced parents, before divorce was seen as unacceptable and a disgrace to the family, but in today’s society, it is more acceptable, and common. Divorce does not just affect the two married people, but it also affects any children they may have. To fully understand how divorce affects children, one must the history of divorce, the changes in the child’s or children’s life, and the effects those changes may bring.

Divorce causes many problems for children and has many implications. Psychological implications include mental health problems and behavioral problems. Social roles are turned inside out and upside down. Children are often pulled in many directions. In the United States divorce is very common and often leaves children confused and without options. Many turn toward violence, crime, drugs, and isolation. Studies show how adults can reduce the tension for these children. Other

The first area that affects children of divorce is the emotional aspect. One of the emotional changes seen in students is that they lash out more verbally. In other words they become more argumentative. Frequently this is seen in the way that respond to their parents. Often times these Incidents occur when one or the other of the parents is dealing with a discipline issue. Another place this aggression can be seen is at school. It occurs when a teacher asks

Most people argue that the family is in ‘crisis’. They point to the rapidly increasing divorce rate, cohabitation, illegitimacy and number of single parent families.

Amato, Paul R. "The Consequences of Divorce for Adults and Children." Journal of Marriage and the Family 62.4 (2000): 1269-87.

Couples that are in a conflict relationship pattern are most likely to seek out help because the couples seem to be more aware of the pain. In many cases conflict is nothing new to individuals who are struggling with it. Gilbert (1992) states “They may have grown up with it. Sometimes conflicted relationship partners grew up, not with conflict, but with other patterns that were just as difficult” (pg.46). In all reality conflict is a way of handling relationship anxiety and in many cases anxiety doesn’t come from the relationship, any type of anxiety can trigger conflict (Gilbert, 1992). To improve people’s relationships who are in a relationship pattern of conflict they have to stop focusing on the other partner and start focusing on themselves and what they bring to the relationship. While reading on the concept of conflict in relationships I noticed many similarities to my life. I can recall many instances in my life when conflict was a big issue in my relationships. Now that I have learned more on the relationship pattern of conflict I will be able to recognize it and hopefully improve any future relationship that struggles with conflict. The second concept discussed in the chapter was the relationship

Age can effect marital conflict of divorce on a parent, adult child relationships and gender play a huge role in the differences of coping with parents who go through divorce. In the article “The Interactive Effects of Marital Conflict and Divorce on Parent - Adult Children's Relationships” by Yu, T., Pettit, G. S., Lansford, J. E., Dodge, K. A., & Bates, J. E., they hypothesized how parental marital warfare and divorce can both independently correlate with the parent-adult child relationships well-being. They claim that the timing between the portion of marital trouble and the measure of parent-adult child relationship effects may also have affected the relationship between parental-marital trouble and parent-adult

Conflicts which lead to unresolved issues can influence the quality of the marriage. Although several research was made on marital relationships, the factors which influence the arising of continuous conflicts are still not clear. Unresolved issues are problems which are continuously brought up in a marriage. However, marital conflicts are not the only source of unresolved issues in a relationship. Unresolved conflicts within the marriage can affect the longevity and quality of the marriage, but personal background and individual trauma contribute to marital problems more often than conflicts within the marriage. In fact, marital conflicts are usually started because of personal unresolved issues. If a person develops a behavioral property

The Journal of Youth and Adolescence manifests that divorce does not damage a child's existence as, "being exposed to conflict within the family in the form of arguments and violence is positively related to feelings of anger and depressed mood among adolescents" (LIRN). The various authors of this complex article attempt to clarify that there is a definite correlation between depression and anger as well as family conflict. The article distinguishes that divorce does not harm children but in actuality provides relief from continuous turmoil and an oppressive environment. This