Blended Family Counseling

Family dissolution and eventual reconstruction is not an uncommon experience in the United States. Focusing specifically on a child’s ability to adjust positively to having a stepparent could assist family life educators to develop ways that potentially make this transition easier for children and adults who struggle with this shift. The following is an overview of a blended family whose members all had different perspectives on how they viewed being involved in a blended family dynamic. The purpose of this in-depth look at a blended family is to further explore the relationships between stepparents and stepchildren and the correlation, if any, to a child’s ability to have a positive reaction to adjusting to a new family dynamic.

A Blended Family is becoming quite common in our current generation. A Blended family occurs as a result of a break-up, divorce, separation, and even death. An adoption can also be added to the equation. According to dictionary.com, a blended family is a family made of two parents and their children from previous marriages.

Family: Benny is a 7 year old male who resides in South Amboy with the Rodriguez family. At this time Benny behavior in the home has improved. He still a little guarded when it comes to talking about his feelings. Benny continues to struggle with being separated from his parents and history of traumatic experiences, exposure to DV and SU, neglect and removal from her biological parents. He continues to feel torn between his biological parents and his new resource home.

The relationship between parents and a child is a very fundamental part of life, yet not every children gets the chance to be able to have a relationship with their parents. Up to this day, there are 107,918 foster children waiting to be adopted, based on the information given by the website Adoption Network. Each of the 107,918 continue to ache to be taken into a loving household. Even if being adopting into a single parent household children are just as likely to receive love and careness. In the website Lifelong Adoptions, Yissell, a single parent, recalls her own experience with adoption.

Personally I am quite worried by the limited support and materials available to helping step-marriages? I mean in a world where there is consistency in the rise of the numbers of stepfamilies, one would expect a lot of alliances involving religious and non-religious bodies towards helping these peculiar family units? The UK Office of National Statistics (ONS) pointed out that nearly one in every ten dependent children live in a stepfamily? The ONS went further to clarify that stepfamilies are couple families where there is at least one stepchild in the household.

Introduction From the mid to late 20th Century there has been a visible and remarkable changes in family structures and dynamics (Cliquet, 2003). Most people experience society through their own early family experiences, and they grow up thinking that their family is the same as everyone else’s (Saggers and Sims, 2005).

Help Children Get a Home and Save Their Life Single adopters should be seen as much capable as married couple at taking care of children because it is the best thing for the child and the adopter. There are many children who need to be adopted. There are approximately 408,425 children who need to be adopted in the US only (Unmarried Equality). Most adoptive children all around the world have been abused, neglected leading to physical, emotional, and intellectual disabilities (Unmarried Equality).

The procedures of individuals counseling for substance addiction is when the counselor sits down with the client one-on-one and examines the individual addiction problem and treatment options. In a private setting individual attending individual rehabilitation can speak in confidence for those who feel uncomfortable speaking in a group environment. Individual counseling allows the therapist to spend more quality time with one person, this way the patient and the therapist can dig further down into the client overall problems. Several more benefits to individual session is that if the client is pressed for time, he or she can schedule session around their calendar instead of trying to adjust their schedule to attend group meeting. And, if the

There are many different kinds of Canadian families such as a nuclear family, extended families, childless families etc. Reconstructed or blended families are parents that have remarried and are living together with children from previous relationships. Blended families are on the rise in our society now that 40% of marriages end up in divorce in Canada. With most of the divorcees having children, it is not surprising that the number of blended families going up. These families face issues such as Legal and financial difficulties, territories being infringed upon, and Scheduling conflicts between the parents and the children.

Family Therapy Theory Bekka Burlingame Michigan State University Family Therapy Theory Theoretical Review of Bowen Therapy Bowen Family Therapy began as research into relationships between mothers and their schizophrenic children using psychoanalytic theory in the late 1940’s (Denay, 2017). Murray Brown based his therapy on both individuality and togetherness, with a goal of differentiation of self (Nichols, 2013). Bowen Therapy views the entire family as one emotional unit, where each member’s emotional reactivity is dependent on the other family members (The Bowen Center, 2017). There are 8 concepts that make up Bowen Family Therapy and they will be discussed in the following sections.