Social Work Practice with FamiliesGoal Set and InterventionNeed: Family needs a better way of communicationGoal: Family members will attend weekly family therapy sessions for the next 12 weeks. The father and mother will have a couples session once a week for six weeks. The goal is to assist the family members in developing better methods of communication and expressing themselves.Intervention/Theory: Transformational Family SystemsApplication to Family: Transformational family system is used within the family structure to improve communication and relationships (Sinan, 2020). The intervention addresses personal actions, perceptions, and emotions related to each persons dynamic in the family unit. For the Maxson family, transformational family systems will assist the family members in building better relationships with each other and improve their communications skills. Currently, the family members are not living together as a family unit because each person has their individual needs, and they ignore each other. None of the family…...
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Byers, T., Newton, K., Whitman, T., & Jones, C. W. (2021). Prevalence of and Relationship Between Caregiver Adversity Scores and Child Client Eco-systemic Structural Family Therapy (ESFT) Outcome: Implications for Family Based Mental Health Services (FBMHS). Community Mental Health Journal, 1-12.
Carpenter, J. K., Andrews, L. A., Witcraft, S. M., Powers, M. B., Smits, J. A., & Hofmann, S. G. (2018). Cognitive behavioral therapy for anxiety and related disorders: A meta?analysis of randomized placebo?controlled trials. Depression and anxiety, 35(6), 502-514.
Sinan, O. (2020). Satir transformational systemic therapy and spirituality. Spiritual Psychology and Counseling, 5(1), 45-64.
Social Work Practice with FamiliesAugust Wilsons: FencesPart 1How would you explain Psychoeducational Family counseling to your fictional family?Psychoeducational family counseling means providing family members with information and education related to mental health services when seeking or receiving the services (Poyamoghadam et al., 2021). The goal of psychoeducation is to assist the family in better understand mental health conditions. When family members understand their challenges due to their mental health problems, they will have better-coping abilities.Psychoeducational family counseling will assist the individual suffering from mental illness to remain courageous when faced with seemingly insurmountable challenges. For the fictitious family in Fences, Troy has mental challenges, and the family is not aware of how they can assist him. Therefore, if they receive psychoeducation, they will understand him and support him and encourage him to face his challenges. With family support, he can begin to receive mental health treatment through counseling. The family…...
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Minuchin, S. (2018). Structural family therapy. In Families and family therapy (pp. 1-11). Routledge.
Poyamoghadam, S., Rezaei, N., Navidian, A., & Ghaljeh, M. (2021). Comparing quality of life therapy and a psychoeducational intervention on burden of family caregivers of patients with severe mental illness. Journal of the Iranian Institute for Health Sciences Research, 20(1).
Social Work with Families and ChildrenPart 1A. Summarize the research and your reason for choosing this population group. Identify limitations in the research and need for additional evaluation.The study aimed to determine the effect of extended foster care on older youth aging out of foster care. The study utilized the NYTD Outcomes survey to determine the association between utilization of extended care and positive adult outcomes (Rosenberg & Abbott, 2019). The researchers used a logistic regression to analyze young adult outcomes and extended care utilization. The aim was to determine if extended foster care was beneficial to the older youth. It was established that allowing older youth to stay in care past 18 years is associated with better outcomes for young adults. Extended foster care is similar to the care youths receive when they have support from family as they begin their adulthood journey. Therefore, youth aging out of foster…...
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Illinois Department of Children and Family Services. (2016, December 16). GET GOAL’D. IDCFS. https://www2.illinois.gov/dcfs/brighterfutures/independence/Documents/GetGoaldHandbook.pdf
Rosenberg, R., & Abbott, S. (2019). Supporting older youth beyond age 18: Examining data and trends in extended foster care. Child Trends. https://www.childtrends.org/publications/supporting-older-youth-beyond-age-18-examining-data-and-trends-in-extended-foster-care
Trepper, T., McCollum, E., De Jong, P., Korman, H., Gingerich, W., & Franklin, C. (2012). Solution-focused brief therapy treatment manual. Solution-focused brief therapy: A handbook of evidence-based practice, 20-36. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195385724.003.0015
Psychology -- Counseling -- Structural Family Therapy Model
"Juno" is a refreshingly nonjudgmental look at teenage pregnancy and a family's ultimately positive, supportive response. Addressing the situation from a systematic therapeutic perspective, the counselor can accept Juno, her family and the adoptive family as they are and help them reach their agreed upon goals. The movie's portrayal of a teenager's situation that is normally deemed problematic in a positive human light makes the happy outcome of this film readily achievable and believable.
Juno
"Juno" (Reitman, 2007) is a film about teenage pregnancy, an aspect of life that frequently positively and negatively confronts modern American families. hen 16-year-old Juno irresponsibly becomes unexpectedly pregnant by her teenaged best friend, Bleek, she decides against abortion and chooses to give the baby to an as-yet-unknown infertile couple. hen she tells her father and stepmother, they are initially rattled but quickly become supportive because after all, they are…...
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Chenail, R. J. (2009). Learning marriage and family therapy in the time of competencies. Journal of Systemic Therapies, 28(1), 72-87.
Gehart, D. R. (2014). Mastering competencies in family therapy, 2nd edition. Balmont, CA: Brooks-Cole Cengage Learning 978-1-285-07542-6.
Gerhart, D. (2011). The core competencies and MFT education: Practical aspects of transitioning to a learning-centered, outcome-based pedagogy. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 37(3), 344-54.
Reitman, J. (Director). (2007). Juno [Motion Picture].
Family Therapies
Structural family approach
Major contributors of Structural family approach
Structural family approach mainly operates by considering problems within the family structure, it emphasizes on dealing with the individual symptom through examination of the whole family interaction pattern. Furthermore, this theory does not insist on the relation between family interactions and pathology but, it associates the symptoms with family's interaction. Structural family theory has three operating areas, these include; the family, the problem itself and the change process. First stage entails, the therapist knowing the kind of family he/she is dealing with, the composition and hierarchy of the family. he/she tries to fit in the family's environment so as to capture the real picture. In the second stage, the therapist identifies is specifically stopping the family from living harmoniously. he/she also finds out the function and position of the problem behavior Goldenberg & Goldenberg, 2008()
History of Structural family approach
Salvador Minuchin is credited…...
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Bobrow, E., & Ray, W.A. (2004). Strategic Family Therapy in the Trenches. Journal of Systemic Therapies, 23(4), 28-38. doi: 10.1521/jsyt.23.4.28.57840
D'Angelo, S.L. (1995). The Milan approach to therapy revisited. PsycCRITIQUES, 40(4), 352-352. doi: 10.1037/003578
Goldenberg, H., & Goldenberg, I. (2008). Family Therapy: An Overview: Thomson Brooks/Cole.
Rosen, K.H. (2003). Strategic family therapy. In L.L. Hecker & J.L. Wetchler (Eds.), An introduction to marriage and family therapy. (pp. 95-121). Binghamton, NY U.S.: Haworth Clinical Practice Press.
Family Systems Theory; Application of Family Therapy Theories
The concept of family therapy has over the years has been developed into different approaches that have definite characteristics. These theories have been used to bring forth solutions to different family issues that are experienced on regular basis. It is not easy to understand the structure of a family since there are no universal structures that the family problems or challenges take, this means that even in the application of the family systems theories in bringing solutions to families, the application purely depend on individual unique family challenges and not on a universal template. These unique characteristics that each family challenge takes makes it hard to apply one system theory and have full confidence that it will work, hence the frequent overlapping of the theories, and in this case the strategic family therapy and the structural family therapy will be applied to help…...
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Nichols M.P., (2009). Family Therapy: Concepts and Methods.
Multiple Therapeutic Models of a Family
The main components of structural therapy
Structural therapy is a family treatment model founded on the frameworks of systems theory. The distinctive component of this model is the emphasis it has placed on structural adjustments as the primary objective of the therapy session. This emphasis is prominent over details of adjustments in individual behaviors. This model is distinctive because the therapist is the most active agent and receives much attention in the course of family restructuring (Lock & Strong, 2012).
The main purpose of structural family therapy is prevention of sequences from repetition by coveting the hierarchical structures of families. This encompasses shifts in power distribution among family members by adjusting interaction styles. Nevertheless, structural family therapy operates by making alterations on the dysfunctional family structure through encouragement and promotion of growth among family members with the primary intention of re-building the family (Petridis, Pichorides, & Varopoulos,…...
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Goldenberg, H., & Goldenberg, I. (2008). Family therapy: An overview. Australia: Thompson Brooks/Cole.
Lock, A., & Strong, T. (2012). Discursive perspectives in therapeutic practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Peterson, G.W., Steinmetz, S.K., & Sussman, M.B. (2009). Handbook of marriage and the family. New York: Plenum Press.
Petridis, N., Pichorides, S.K., & Varopoulos, N. (2010). Harmonic analysis, Iraklion 1978: Proceedings of a conference held at the University of Crete. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
Experiential Family Therapy (EFT) is the central place of humanistic therapies and psychology. This therapy includes the works of Fritz Perls, Carl Rogers, and Abraham Maslow, along with the communication theories and family systems of Paul Watzlavick, Don Jackson, and Gregory ateson. It is called a meeting place for all the theorists because clearly the experiential family therapy includes multiple systems used for therapy. The authors ecvar & evcar (2006) like to call these 'experimental approaches to family therapy' instead of 'experimental models'. Virginia Satir, one of the main predecessors of the experiential approach, is also considered to be part of communication approaches as well as experiential (Lester, 2009).
The family tree of the family system has three main parts: (1) the Communications approach of Virginia Satir; (2) the Gestalt experiential approach of Walter Kempler; and (3) the Symbolic experiential approach of Carl Whitaker (ecvar & ecvar, 2006). However, the focus…...
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Shift From First-order to Second-Order Cybernetics in the Family and Systemic Therapies
The strategic family therapy model came up in the 1950s and was inspired by two primary works: the works of Milton Erickson who came up with revolutionary paradoxical interventions which took advantage of people's resistance to change to help alter psychiatric symptoms first; and the works of Gregory Bateson and the Palo Alto Group that made use of cybernetics in communication patterns of the family. The style of a therapist changes as he or she gets better as a person and as they develop professionally, and also as per what is in fashion at the time. An older person has the chance to look at what happened in their past and see what worked and what failed. This gives them a better perspective of what works and what might not work for a given situation. The path is…...
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Society Feels About Animals
As a first order primate, humans have a natural affinity with animals of all types that has contributed to their mutual relationships throughout history. In fact, animals of different types have been since the time of the ancient Greeks to improve the emotional and functional status of humans (Mccauley, 2006, p. 358). Animal-assisted therapy (AAT) has grown in popularity in recent years based on its proven efficacy in treating a wide range of healthcare and mental health conditions. Although dogs and cats are most commonly used in AAT settings, horses, rabbits and even fish can also be used. For instance, according to Macauley, "The use of animals ranges from companion animals that provide camaraderie and emotional support to assistance animals that provide direct physical-functional support to therapy animals that aid with the habilitation-rehabilitation in physical, occupational, speech-language, and recreation therapy" (2006, p. 358). Moreover, some researchers…...
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Contextual and Larger System Factors
Role of Collaboration
Steve de Shazer, Insoo Kim erg, and coworkers came up with the original version of the SFT (Solution-Focused rief Therapy) in the year 1982 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin's rief Family Therapy Center. At first, they employed the approach of problem resolution, which they had become acquainted with at Palo Alto, California's Mental Research Institute during their work with psychotherapist, John Weakland. ut upon listening to clients/patients explaining their problems' fine points, they started noticing that clients revealed exceptions as well -- i.e., times when their problem proved to be minimal or even sometimes absent. At this juncture, therapy shifted its emphasis from problem description to two exceptions' specifics. This change of focus ensured migration of therapy to development of a solution, from resolution of the issue. With redefinition of the therapy's focus, a shift was observed in clients' and therapists' individual role expectations, too. Solution…...
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Genogram Project
The author of this report has been charged with doing a family assessment project. The largest part of this report shall be the genogram and ecogram. The personal version of these two diagrams as authored and put together by the author of this report are shown in the appendix. There will be some additional supporting and complementary information as well. This will include the Calgary Family Assessment Model (CFAM) and the Calgary Family Intervention Model. Both of those models will be discussed and reviewed in this report. Also worthy of mention will be the stages of the family life cycle. The rest of the report will be important information about the family members identified in the genogram. This information will include three generations of information, each family member being identified, the family relationship involved, the current age of the person (or age at death), the martial/relationship status of the…...
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Salvador Minuchin and his structural method of family therapy. e will discuss a brief history of Minuchin's life, his peers and influences. The discussion will include a clear description of this particular type of therapy, including the five basic concepts of the therapy and the different strategies used. e will also discuss the strengths and weaknesses of this modality. Finally examples of a family session will be provided.
Salvador Minuchin was born in Argentina in 1921 to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents. (Doorey) Minuchin was the oldest of three children and the son of a successful businessman. hen the Great Depression came into fruition his family's business deteriorated and the family was thrown into a life of poverty. (Doorey)
Salvador's fascination with helping people through psychology began when he was in High School and he sought to help juvenile delinquents. Doorey) He became enthralled with the works of the philosopher Rousseau. hen he…...
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Family TherapyIntroductionThis paper examines the therapeutic approach for a family undergoing significant transition and turmoil, primarily focusing on the identified patient, VL, a 16-year-old diagnosed with Autism and ADHD. The backdrop to VL\\\'s story is a family embroiled in a contentious divorce and custody battle, a situation that strains the familial bonds and exacerbates the challenges inherent in VL\\\'s diagnoses. With a multi-disciplinary approach that includes pharmacotherapy, psychotherapy, and culturally sensitive interventions, this paper offers a treatment plan to address the needs of VL and his family. It also emphasizes the importance of having responsive therapeutic interventions tailored to the unique situations of families.AssessmentThe genogram and interpersonal recordings reveal a family structure fraught with tensions and disruptions. KL, the father, age 49, has a history of hypertension, pre-diabetes, depression, and an anxiety disorder; he feels isolated, and clings to his sister as his main support following the loss of his…...
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Categories and Phases of Loss and Grief for Nancy
Diagnostic Statement for Nancy
Nancy is obese and reports feeling anxious and depressed. Nancy has gained 15 pounds does not sleep well, has low concentration ability and is forgetful. Nancy has a social phobia and exhibits some signs of paranoid schizophrenia. In addition, Nancy has a back injury, which contributes, to her general feeling of ill health and results in not getting the exercise she needs. Nancy is a chain smoker. Nancy feels that she has lost control of her life. Nancy's son Michael has asthma. It appears that Nancy's husband suffers from some type of behavior disorder and is likely somewhat mentally retarded.
DSM-IV-T (2000) Diagnosis
The multiaxial assessment includes analysis on the following five stated Axis:
(1) Axis 1: clinical disorders, pervasive developmental disorders, learning, motor skills and communication disorder
296.xx Major Depressive Disorder
301.0 Paranoid Personality Disorder
300.23 Social Phobia - generalized
(2) Axis 2: Personality disorders…...
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