Critical And Significant First Step In The Social Work Process

The nurse can use family systems theory and assess Susie's and Mrs. Jones. Assess what is the particular living situation of Susie’s family and what influence Mrs. Jones would have if she were to move in. Particular values from each individual would be assessed and addressed as well as any cultural needs. Family developmental theory involves the individual's growth of responsibilities during family development. Each member in the house will have different roles & responsibilities, now the Mrs. Jones is moving in and it will affect Susie the most because she is now responsible for her mother as a primary care giver.

A family is the most precious identity a person can have. An individual whether from a noble, average or poor family can be distinguished by their discipline, character, behavior, customs and living conditions. In every generation parents and children illustrate different patterns and behaviors in family’s lifestyles prior to the previous ones. Family contributes to an individual’s growth, thinking and behavior. The standards for an ideal family back in the 1960s are extremely different than the standards held by an ideal family today. The principles of marriage, on what a family consisted of, father’s leadership skills, wife’s job, how they managed a family, families having meals together, families attending church and children respecting parents and abiding to their schedule.

This provides analytical approach to families with problems of low and bad structure in the family relations. Also, Structural Family Therapy is a therapy session that requests the therapist to be involved and active as well in the therapy sessions (www.psychotherapy.net ,video). Therefore, during the video of the family of three which is made up of Adrian, Judy, and Pam. Adrian and Judy are a married couple and the parents of Pam. Adrian and Judy has been through numerous therapists to comprehend their daughter’s Pam anger problem. They feel after going to all these therapy sessions there has been no improvement in their daughter’s behavior. The therapist Harry Aponte session with this family projects SFT theory on them. He decided do a strategy by forming an alliance with Pam to form a dynamic with the family (www.psychotherapy.net, video) . So, basically his approach is about helping them understanding their day to day issues they are having. Harry Aponte begins to engage with the family to find ways to the problem. The problem with Adrian and Judy in the video is that are not understanding why their daughter is built with

The Calgary Family Assessment Model (CFAM) uses three major categories (structural, developmental, and functional) in order to assess a family and allow for a helpful resource to use within issue resolution (Wright & Leahey, 2013). Within each category there are multiple different subcategories. Structural assessments of a family may require an assessment of different aspects within the structure of the family such as internal, external, and context. The purpose of assessing the structure of the family is to understand who is in the family, what connections are present among the family members versus those that are outside of the family, and the context of the family. Developmental assessments can in tell the subcategories of stage, task, and attachment. Developmental assessments have a purpose understanding the family’s developmental life cycle, where each family is and what is needed and their functions at this point of assessment. Functional assessment looks at instrumental and expressive aspects within the function of the family. The purpose of functional assessment of a family is to assess how individuals within the family behaves or acts in relation to one another.

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 &

Family theories have been used throughout the history of nursing to help guide patient care and provide the best patient outcomes. Certain theories may be more applicable to the specific patient encounter; however, each theory has benefits and drawbacks to their use. The purpose of this paper is to examine two selected theories, comparing their strengths and weaknesses. I will also discuss a theoretical family in relation to one theory, and how that theory can be best integrated into the care provided by an Advanced Practice Nurse (APN).

Family structure talks about family arrangement and composition which includes the roles and interactions (Edelman, 2014). According to Minuchin (2012), the family structural theory emphasis on the important of the family structure and its changes that occurs and how the individuals in the family relate collectively over time to put up and accept each other. Minuchin says further that a well-functioning family will choose how to solve and handle the family experience with a positive outcome. The goal of a structural family is to express the strengths in each other in critical moments, and helping each other through it. Developmental theory is the methods used as the viewpoint of family tasking and development through phases of life (Edelman, 2014).

The purpose of this discussion paper is to discuss a specific issue of the client, Laura, and the intervention model of Attachment Theory. Key features of the intervention model will be addressed, as well as the manner in which the model will be applied to a specific issue experienced by the client. Each of these aspects will be discussed in regards to their helpfulness in the intervention.

Within this family system, the boundaries identified included daughter and father's connectedness whereas mother's involvement was limited. This alignment as well as the power structure lessens mother's ability to take an active role in the family system. The clinician focus his energy on the mother and daughter motivating them to change the structure of the subsystem. The presenting issue in the family session sets the stage for the intervention

From this scenario, I have learned about systems theory as well as other psychological theories such attachment theory. Firstly, based on my research on “Family Systems Theory “(Murray B.) family systems theory suggest that an individual, in this case, Sinead, cannot be understood as an individual alone but instead as part of a family as a family is an emotional unit. Families in every aspect are systems of interdependent and interrelated individuals that cannot be understood if a single person is isolated and examined. Each member in the family, has a specific role to play and a set of rules in which they must follow. Maintaining a certain system in the family may lead to balance in the family but also to huge dysfunction. For example, if

When Social Worker meet clients with many differents types of problem , it is important to start where the clients is.Therefore, this is one of the reasons that it important we treat our clients and their problems differently. The reason for that, it is a way to find solution relate to our clients problems so we use techniques and models.The family system theory was developed in 1954 by Dr. Murray Bowen. According to Bowen, he believe that a change in one member of the family will followed by changes in all members of the family.He look at family problems from the past affect the client and clients in present day.Therefore, he believe that in order to see relationship between each members of the family and the problems they had in the past that are constantly repeating throughout

Albrecht and Adelman’s study (as cited in Kendall Hunt Publishing Co., 2011) provided a definition of social support as “verbal and non-verbal communication between recipients and providers that reduces uncertainty about the situation, the self, the other, or the relationship, and functions to enhance a perception of personal control in one’s life experience”. Social support is any type of communication that helps an individual feel more secure or certain about a situation and therefore being able to feel that they have control over a situation (2011, Kendall Hunt Publishing Co.). According to Hunt, social support emphasizes the availability of the network of people that provides support, therefore, the presence

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.

This essay discusses how the family is viewed by two different sociological perspectives- functionalism and conflict theory. Firstly, ‘family’ is defined. Secondly, the main ideas of functionalism will be discussed followed by how this theory perceives the family. The main ideas of Conflict Theory will then be examined and how conflict theorists perceive the family.

Families can be regarded as the foundation of society. For Fleetwood (2012: 1), the importance of families is highlighted by the fact that it would be difficult to comprehend a society that could function without them. In addition, even though families and their compositions vary across societies and cultures, the family can be viewed as a universal social institution (Macionis & Plummer, 2012: 625. Specifically, according to Macionis and Plummer (2012: 625) and Neale (2000:1), it has the ability to unite individuals into cooperative groups via social bonds (kinship) and is ultimately experienced differently from individual to individual. However, the family can be a source of conflict, tension and inequality, which is why one of the key practices