The Flowers Family Analysis

Making a genogram can enhance one’s training as a helping professional by laying out points in a person’s life and family that have caused distress and could affect practice in the future. By self realizing the crisis points in one’s family it can help to identify triggers that could lead to countertransference as well as resurfacing of old traumas during counseling or leading a group. Plotting out one’s life is a way to organize a family especially if there are multiple marriages of parents and non-traditional family ties within a standard family tree. By knowing where you come from and the experiences that shape your family you can better

There are two approaches that I would like to somehow integrate into the assessment process which are Bowen’s genogram and narrative therapy line of questioning. Both approaches can help come up with a complete picture of the family, along with uncovering the family’s story. An article written addressed how integrating a classic family therapy technique can be used in the context of narrative therapy. The author suggested that genograms create a unique opportunity to explore and re tell stories which assists the family in re-authoring (Chrzastowski, 2011). According to our reading Re authoring is when a family member already ascribed a certain belief about their lives. Furthermore, visual devices used in the assessment process can be a great

This semester, you will have the opportunity to construct a family genogram for informational purposes. You will develop a genogram, documenting information from both sides of your family (maternal and paternal) for 4 generations starting with yourself. The genogram may be hand drawn or you may use a computer drawn one. (You can download a basic program from www.genopro.com/free or from http://www.progenygenetics.com/students/ ) Your

A genogram is a tool utilized in health care to help better understand a person’s family history. Similar to a family tree, a genogram looks at genetic influences, but it is also a “depiction of family structure and dynamics, particularly the in the context of transgenerational patterns” (Chrzastowski, 2011). A genogram typically goes back three generations and can cover topics such as, religion, culture, family relationships, communication styles, health and illness, etc. Genograms help us to understand how a person’s family’s history helps to shape and influence their present situation and any potential future situations. It is a useful tool in providing family-centered care. In psychiatric-mental

In Maya Angelou’s “Sister Flowers” and Gordon Parks’ “Flavio’s Home,” both authors best utilize the senses of smell and sight. In “Sister Flowers” the author uses smell to portray the vanilla scent of the tea cookies. In the text, “The odors in the house surprised me. Somehow I had never connected Mrs. Flowers with food or eating or any other common experience of com- mon people. There must have been an outhouse, too, but my mind never recorded it. The sweet scent of vanilla had met us as she opened the door.” (28) While Angelou describes pleasant smelling things, Parks’ is quite the opposite. The smells Parks’ describes are foul stenches of decay. The author describes in the text, “We sidestepped a dead cat covered with maggots. I held my breath for an instant, only to inhale the stench of human excrement and garbage. Bare feet and legs with open sores climbed above us—evils of the terrible soil they trod every day, and there were seven hundred thousand or more afflicted people in favelas around Rio alone.” (21) Sight is yet another sense that is utilized throughout both texts. In “Sister Flowers”, Angelou describes Ms. Flowers hidden smile. “I don’t think I ever saw Mrs. Flowers laugh, but she smiled often. A slow widening of her thin black lips to show even, small white teeth, then

In this “Autumn” chapter, Claudia MacTeer uses flower imagery to describe how she and Frieda respond to their environment. This metaphor calls attention to the importance of nurture and environment for these young children, especially during these formative years of childhood. Like flowers, we depend on our environment for sustenance, so in turn, Pecola Breedlove, Soaphead Church, and Louis, Jr., inherit the legacy of self-loathing and Claudia and Frieda MacTeer inherit the legacy of self-worth.

I was looking forward to completing this assignments, as I was able to connect with family members and gain a better understanding more of how my heritage and culture has helped to shape my career development. I did not find difficulties constructing my genogram until having to document my grandparents careers. Growing up, I knew that my grandparents owned farms because I spend a considerable amount of time playing on the expanse of land. However, I began to realized that I was not sure if that had always been their occupation. I did have to call my father to get a bit more information about my grandparents and their occupations. I was not far off from what I believed to be true. However, I did realized that both of my grandmothers were homemakers until my aunts and uncles were school aged.

Genograms are used to graphically represent a family tree and display detailed data on relationships among the individuals included in the family tree. In essence, families are complex systems that interact with kin groups in specific ways, and a genogram helps to show a diagram of a family tree, but also maps out interactions, relationships, traits, and characteristics that may otherwise not be noticed. The purpose of a genogram is to identify and understand patterns in family history which may influence an individual’s personal behavior and traits. Family Systems Theory, presented by Dr. Murray Bowen, suggests that an individual cannot be understood in isolation from their family members. According to Dr. Bowen, the family is an emotional

A family is seen as a group of people who are biologically or psychologically related. They connect on historical, emotional

The family that is being observed for this assignment is headed by a married couple who has been together for a little over 40th years. Cliff Barnes a 61 year old male is married to Amy Barnes 66 years old. Their immediate household composition includes Amy Barnes’s 44 year son from a previous relationship, her 22 year old grandson and the couple’s 15 year old adopted daughter. I have included the immediate family members in the attached genogram because they play a major role in the family dynamics.

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The objective of doing the genogram is to get to know the patient by gaining understanding of his/her family background. Assessing the family using systemic approach enables health care providers to learn about the ways in which family members interact, what are the family expectations and norms, how effective is the members communication, who makes decisions and how the family deals with life time stressors (Hockenberry & Wilson, 2007). This paper outlines the assessment and analysis of the three generation of Wits’ and Smiths’ families, its relationship, health pattern, habits, tradition and structure. It also provides a nursing teaching plan. The interview was conduced with Alina Wit, a second generation mother of three.

I agree with both your post! The genogram is a great tool for visualization. As the saying goes a picture is worth a thousand words. As our book indicated the genogram then begins to be a tool of planning changes in the couple's respective family of origin (Hecker, 2015). Bowen believes the clinical goals should lower anxiety and turmoil. Focusing less on the problem, rather reframing the problem and showing how the problem could be multigenerational caused by factors beyond their control (Klever, 2009). Thereby, using the therapist as a healthier part of the triangle, where they help to ease anxiety, and acting more calmly (Hecker, 2015). Bowen also suggested using “I” statement which helps family members separate their own emotions from

The therapist engages each member of the family by beginning with the presenting problem. This tool engages the family my gathering information from individual family members helping to lay a foundation that identifies relationships and family patterns. The genogram also

The novel The Language of Flowers, is one written by author Vanessa Diffenbaugh. The novel centers around a young girl named who goes by the name of Victoria Jones. As the reader begins, they are made aware of Victoria’s upbringing and all the difficult challenges she had endured during her time living within the foster care system. Diffenbaugh does an excellent job intertwining both the past and present to help readers understand her turmoil, as well as her joy. The author expresses this through the main character Victoria, who eventually develops a gift for flowers in which she uses to changer not only her life, but others’ lives as well. In fact, flowers are the only way that Victoria feels connected to the world around her because she