Satir's Family Therapy Model

Pam will develop and utilize skills to manage her frustration with parents or others, 3 out of 4 days per week.

The purpose of this paper is to select a family and enter into a contract to determine the needs of the family. Five visits spanning five weeks helped identify family interests, needs, and concerns. The paper identifies three priority family needs determined during family visits. It utilizes evidenced based educational materials to teach the family based on the three needs identified. The paper identifies interventions for each need utilizing evidence based practice and education. It evaluates the interventions and examines any adaptations used. The contractual relationship is terminated on the final visit and appropriate referrals

The legacies people inherit from their families act as personal psychics that influence their futures and explain the reasoning behind the choices they make. Malcolm Gladwell, author of nonfiction book Outliers: The Story of Success supports this concept of how legacies influence people and the choices they make. He coins this concept as “cultural legacies” and defines it as: “powerful forces that play such a role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them,” (175). Gladwell explains the cruciality of the cultural legacies in people’s success, decisions, and how these legacies influence how people function. Furthermore, these legacies remain intact in importance to the person’s life and relevant

Following the death of a child, many parents become preoccupied with their own grief which affects their interactions with surviving children (Rossetto, 2015). Terry and Antonio are so caught up in their own grief that they are not paying proper attention to their other three children. The communication in this household is masked because they learned to change the subject whenever Sam’s name comes up. The children as well as the parents did not get the proper amount of time to grieve their loss if they are not allowed to talk about it. Open communication is important for children following the death of a sibling and siblings who were provided family support exhibited less problematic behaviors (Rossetto, 2015). Antonio and Terry have begun to ignore each other and stay silence rather than discuss what the real problems are. They are unable to directly discuss what the problem is and how they should be fixing it. Antonio has become physical towards Terry whenever she does try and communicate her feelings which have led to her staying quiet around

I am Hmong-American student, I am seventeen years old. My hometown is in Wausau Wisconsin in the United States. I attend Wausau West High School and it will be my last year.

Theories of family therapy assist in identifying problems within the family system as well as influence the assessment process including selecting goals and objectives for treatment plans. Bowen approach to family therapy focuses in the area of decreasing the level of anxiety within the family whereas Minuchin family structural therapy analyses the structure of the family system whereas all problems reside.

Yusef Komunyakaa’s “My Father’s Love Letters” and Li-Young Lee’s “Persimmons” are poems about the familial relationship between a father and a child and the understanding between the two. In Komunyakaa’s poem, the child writes letters to his mother as his father dictates what to say in order to woo back his wife. In Lee’s poem traces the speaker’s life as a whole going back from childhood to adulthood as he tries to get assimilated into a new culture and how that has affected his own relationships with his family. Both Komunyakaa and Lee explore the relationships between the speakers and their fathers through a loss of identity and communication; however, Komunyakaa understand the father in a more retrospective manner,

The Vietnam War started in 1962 and ended in 1972. On the same year, the communist from the North, gained control over The South and took over in 1975.

Undifferentiated individuals cannot isolate sentiments and musings; when requested that think, they are overwhelmed with emotions, and experience issues thinking coherently and constructing their reactions in light of that.Parentified child clarifies that the individual no more trusts in reasonableness or equity from relative or the outside world since they tackle parts at youthful age.Family emotion process have to do with the family capacity to manage stress.Furthermore, the capacity to corrspond with each other one during a period of progress.As for family projection,is when problems are gone on to another member of the family.Lastly, triangular involve three person relationship system.For example, when one person in the family have problem with another member of the family.As a result, he or she involve another member in order to help solve the problem or for

Family systems theory is a framework for understanding families and their strengths and dysfunctions. The strengths identified among family relations can be used to help solve existing problems. The same applies with problems identified. The family system theory is based on Bowen’s theory which argues that people cannot leave independent of each other’s network of relationships. People within a family are connected emotionally, which affects their overall well being and social relations and behaviour. There is a growing complexity and diversity in families. Family systems theory provides a foundation for analysis of such complex and diversified families, making it easy to understand for effective therapy (Zastrow &

Emotional cut off is an extreme measure when a family member no longer interacts with the others emotionally, becoming isolated in their function and in their exchange with the rest of the family members. This concept is important to the functioning of a three generational genogram. When a family member displays emotional cut off, the anxiety of the family is spread across lesser members, with this particular member’s isolation creating even more anxiety and pressure upon the family. In extension, this cut off not only impacts the immediate family, but it disseminates itself across the generational boundaries (Dr Murray Bowen, 2014). In turn family members may try to replace this relationship with another one, creating a potential for vulnerability and let downs.

Families are said to constitute realities in which most of one’s attributes are constructed, based on the family interactions, beliefs, values as well as the behaviours that are seen in the specific families one is brought up into (Archer & McCarthy, 2007).

In this assignment I will be discussing two forms of therapies, family therapy as well as narrative therapy. The assignment will begin with an overview of both family therapy and narrative therapy. I will discuss the key concepts, techniques, therapeutic goals as well as client-therapist relationship. I will then proceed to discuss whether family therapy and narrative therapy are able to be applied in a multicultural context. The assignment will then conclude with how family therapy and narrative therapy is applied in certain situations to clients and how each one will benefit the client. A brief comparison between narrative therapy and family therapy will also be given.

A famous film star, Katherine Hepburn once stated, “Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.” Even though Hepburn was probably interviewed too many times and asked many questions, most social workers must utilize the interview process to make assessments of their clients. An accurate assessment is critical and significant first step in the social work process. Information about problems or situation needs to be gathered, analyzed and interpreted (Zastrow & Kirst-Ashman, 2010). BJ is a 69-year-old male, born in Rhode Island. He met his wife at a Jazz Club in Providence, Rhode Island and they have been married for 33 years. BJ still resides in Providence, Rhode Island with his wife, oldest daughter with her three children

Family counseling draws on systems thinking in its perspective of the family as an emotional unit. When systems thinking, which assesses the portions of a system in relation to the whole, is related to families, it proposes behavior is both informed by and indivisible from the performance of a client’s family of origin. Families facing a struggle within the family unit and looking for professional help to address the problems may find family counseling a helpful approach. Within family counseling there are four family system approaches: systems, structural, strategic, and communications.