Treatment Plan 138 Final Paper

Will you need or want to contact the parent or obtain parental permission for counseling services prior to meeting with Geoffrey? Why or why not?

Ms. Green is also struggling with weight management as she just went through a major weight loss surgery. Ms. Green has expressed that she feels that she does not have a life anymore, everything she do is for her sons. “I’m the taxi, the bank, the everything. I have to do everything for them.” Ms. Green has shared with the therapist that her oldest son and the second to youngest son are the ones who cause her the most stress. “those two are very dependent and the oldest one loves to play guilt trip on me me. He is just so spoiled.”

The Hearst’s are a working class family who lives in the suburbs of upstate New York and are Catholics that attend mass every Sunday. Olivia (20) white female, attends Commonwealth university, parent are John Hearst (46) white male, Mary Hearst (44) white female, they have another child Samantha (19) white female. The Hearts are very well known in their living and working environment. John and Mary always made sure that their daughters stayed active in their school academics and after school activities. Mary’s parents are deceased and John’s parents, Ann (68) white female, and Bob (69) white male live in Florida and are retired. Mary’s mother who is deceased had some psychotic symptoms after given birth but never seeks medications nor help from a psychiatrist.

“Donny said he’d be damned if he let them drag him to some stupid fairy tutor.” (Anne Tyler. “Teenage Wasteland”) Once again, Daisy made a decision for Donny. Communication is key in any form of relationship whether it is a friendship, intimate relationship or mother and child. Understanding is also key. Daisy did not take the time to sit down and talk to Donny. She did not take the time to figure out what was best for him, instead she let others tell her what was best for her son. Daisy desperately

Instead she holded up in her room, smoking meth, drinking [...] Eddie and his 12-year-old sister gabrielle, had no one to guide them”. Edde survived by seeking out new relationships with the motel manager and his cousin Jonathan Levario creating a fresh loving relationship that was not present within his own family even Jonathan later died of acute heroin and meth toxicity. Because loving relationships are one of the best experiences to have, they are also difficult to maintain. Imagine bottles of liquor and bags of cocaine and other drugs Eddie’s parents indulged themselves into satisfying their

Samantha has grown up with her clean, orderly mother who has always told what was right and wrong. She is expected to get good grades and get into a good college with scholarships and awards. She has been taught to be organized and clean just like her mother and to stay away from anything of the opposite, the Garrett’s. However, when Sam began hanging around the Garrett’s and meeting each one of them, she realized how different their family is from hers, besides being less clean and organized. They were full of love for each other and showed lots of interest in one another. They are always there for each other and help one another with school work or problems they may have. Samantha realizes she can’t remember the last time her mother has helped her with any problems unless it was related to what college she will go to or her future career. Samantha realizes she can’t have her mother find out how close she has gotten with the

She has no siblings. Her typical lunch is well rounded including the proper portions of fruits, vegetables, grains, and meats since all of her meals are made by the family’s cook. Emily and Richard are poor co-parents as Richard often is aloof from parenting issues in the exclusive role of provider for the family so Lorelai is at risk of developing self-control issues (Santrock, 2014). Emily uses an authoritarian parenting style with Lorelai, which is not as beneficial to the child as an authoritative parenting style but is better than her father’s neglectful parenting style as he is exclusively involved in his business and views providing for the family financially as his sole duty as a father (Ludden, 2015). Their discipline practices include giving punishments like forbidding her from doing things without explanation, having screaming arguments with her, and her father ignoring her which are not very good parenting methods and can lead to Lorelai not being happy, being anxious with peers, communicating poorly, lacking self-control, and not being close to the family (Santrock, 2014). She is not allowed any screen time because her parents believed only in traditional, classical education that would prepare her for the education they were determined for her to have to follow in the tradition of everyone getting a great education and then a great job or family. She is of an average

Berry says that Mary has been having this issue for some time now but her family has recently sought out counseling to help Mary want to talk with her family about what’s bothering her rather than trying to handle things by herself. The whole family attends the sessions to help Mary with her self-esteem. So far, the counseling has been working, Mary has gotten better at discussing her feelings with the family. Berry’s brother is 40 years old and owns his own graphic design business. His name is David. Berry reports that she and her brother are not close. This is because he wasn’t around much when Berry was growing up. David is from her mom’s first marriage and lived with his dad. He had a hard time transition to having Berry’s dad as a step-father along with having his own dad. He didn’t spend as much time with Berry, her mom and dad, which bothered Berry when she was younger. When David graduated college, he moved to Florida and got married. Since moving to Florida, he hasn’t maintained a strong relationship with his family. He has a wife and 5 kids. The only contact he is with the family is if his wife calls to let them know how things

transition within their roles as their children adapt to a new life. To complete these tasks Mat and Elizabeth are promoting educational achievement and helping their children fit in with the community. Another task they face is restructuring how they parent and working with their children differently, since their stages in life are going to change as well. For example, Alex is in college and is starting to move away from her family. With that Alex is beginning to try and earn trust from her family and become independent. Scottie being the youngest sibling has not approached the stages in the family life cycle. She is still developing and approaching her

After learning his lesson about forgiveness from Ruby, Eddie implements the teachings he received to work towards forgiving his father. Throughout his childhood, Eddie encounters abuse by his father’s hand, and during his battle with depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, after returning from the war, and trying to cope with his leg injury, the only thing that Eddie’s father says to him is, “get up and get a job,” (Albom 108). Many other instances of physical, emotional, and psychological abuse take place throughout Eddie’s life, thus prompting the insightful passage of, “All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair,” (Albom 104). Eddie even goes to describe his relationship with his father as occurring in three stages throughout his lifetime; neglect, violence, and silence. Upon the event of his father’s death, Eddie feels obligated to quit his schooling, work at the Pier full-time, and look after his mother, who is completely lost in her grief in the aftermath of losing her husband. Later on in the novel, Eddie explains that all he wanted to do in life was get away from the Pier, but he uses his circumstance as a reason not to,

Ashley’s family history seems to be pretty normal, and both of her parents are involved in her life. Ashley 's parents are not divorced, and she has a younger brother who is age 6 months. Debbie said that they are not experiences any marital or money problems at the current moment. Ashley and her younger brother both come to our center, while her parents are at work. Debbie and her husband work the same hours, and are home with the children the same amount of hours everyday. Debbie drops off Ashley in the morning, and her Father picks her up in the afternoons. Ashley 's parents are very organized in their schedules, and keep a continual schedule for the children, they feel that this is an essential part of their lives to stay on schedule, and to not interrupt the children 's schedules also. Ashley comes to the center 4 days a week Monday – Thursday from 7:30am until 5:00pm. I spoke with Debbie about how her pregnancy with Ashley went and if she had any problems with her pregnancy. Debbie did not have any sort of issues with her pregnancy with Ashley, she said it went smoothly, and that they had planned ahead for having a child and this helped keep their stress levels down. Debbie took

Vanessa states she often feels “overwhelmed”. When she first brought the children to live with her they obeyed the “rules” for the most part. The children would occasionally give her a hard time. As the children got older, their disrespectful behavior increased. She expected them to do more around the household, but Tanisha and Jermaine felt Vanessa treated them as if they were in the “army” and more often than not, refused to do their homework and chores. No one in the family can seem to come to a clear compromise. Vanessa has given Tanisha more responsibility in caring for her brother Jermaine. Vanessa states, “I am fed up and I don't know how much more I can

Bonnie is totally dependent on her children; however, she maintains the power and authority in the home. At times, Gilbert and Amy take on the role as mother and father and Ellen is very resentment. She challenges Gilbert’s authority, stating “you are not my father.” There appears to be a disconnect because they are so close in age. The family caters to their mother and Arnie, and the older siblings ensure they are always comfortable. Despite the conflict that goes on from time to time, they are a close family. According to Bonnie, she wants everyone to be on a schedule (eating as a family, working, school and daily baths for Arnie).

She lived with her father and stepmother during early and middle adolescence, and then she moved in with her oldest brother during late adolescence around the age of seventeen. She described her father, stepmother, and oldest brother to have very different parenting styles. She described her stepmother as being very demanding and not responsive as it was her way or the highway. Meredith’s stepmother would fall into the category of being an authoritarian parent (Smetana, 1995). She claimed that her father was involved and contributed to her life. As she described him, Meredith’s father would fall into the category of an authoritative parent because he was both demanding and responsive (Smetana, 1995). Since she also lived with her oldest brother during late adolescence, his parenting style should also be noted. Meredith’s oldest brother worked a lot so she did not see him often and was also very lenient about most matters. He was not very responsive or demanding and would most likely be placed as a disengaged parent (Smetana, 1995). Meredith stated that during her early adolescence she was compliant and listened to most of what her father and stepmother asked of her, but became more defiant during late adolescence because she wanted to learn things for herself. When asked to rate the level of control on a scale of 1-10 she rated her

After Fraser III and Marian Shields got married, they had two children, Craig and Michelle. Craig, who was 21 months older than Michelle, helped shed some light on the person Michelle was. He described her as a strong-willed individual, who was always working and working on her study. Her mother mentioned how Michelle would view her brother as a competition because he never had to study as hard and intense as she had to do well in school. Both parents wanted what was best for their children and had high expectations for them. She had described her childhood as being a result of her parents’ love for one another and their “determination to get the parenting equation right” (Slevin 2015:46). Her parents’ involvement in their activities and parenting style was to keep them honest, hard-working and self-disciplined. Everything they did demonstrated the characteristics they wanted their children to have.