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Systemic Assessment Of A Child And A Family Inside Out Essay

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Unit 3 – Systemic Assessment of a Child and a Family-Inside Out The Andersen family Bill, Jill, and Riley from Pixar’s film, Inside Out, was used as the subjects for a systemic assessment of child and family relationships. The author selected this film because it 's centered on an adolescent who has to deal with significant developmental and emotional changes occurring in her life that are brought on by a move to a new state. The move forces the character, Riley to leave behind everything that she has ever known and loved, like her best friend Meg and her hockey team, and travel to a far away unknown place. This causes an emotional as well as developmental change in Riley. The author is able to empathize with the character due to her own childhood experiences as an Army brat and having to frequently move, leaving friends behind, and as a parent in the military who had to frequently move her own children. She has first hand experience with the emotions an adolescent goes through as well as those of a parent who has to deal not only their own emotions, but with those of their child. For this paper the author will assume the role of a marriage and family therapist (MFT) whom the Anderson’s have reached out to in order to help them with the current problems they are facing. A systematic approach will be used to assess developmental factors, Riley’s individual development, the family’s development as a whole, their relationship, and lifespan transitions. A genogram will be

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