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Running head: ENVIRONMENT AND THE FAMILY SYSTEM1Influences of Environment on Behavior and the Family SystemStudent’s NameInstitutional AffiliationDate
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ENVIRONMENT AND THE FAMILY SYSTEM2Influences of Environment on Behavior and the Family SystemQuestion 1Sandra having retired as a school teacher, she has many plans of which she wants to fulfill after her retirement. However, with her husband having health-related issues, it becomes difficult to accomplish her dreams of traveling and participating in volunteering work. Also, her husband is also violent and abusive even though he has a lot of health problems. Despite this, Sandra decides to care for him and does not leave him and stands with the vow they had made with each other of caring for each other in hard times. With the effect of the violence caused by her husband, her children left as soon they were mature and could not withstand the violence of their father. Sandra feels frustrated since she is unable to meet her dreams and set objectives he had planned after retirement because of her husband. Question 2Although Sandra has finished her career, she does not feel contented of fulfilling his career. This makes her be in a sad moment. This can be resolved by a HSP through making her understand that, even though she has not fulfilled her dreams or expectations she had put after the completion of her career, she has performed part of her dream of teaching to the time she hadretired and therefore no need to despair at the moment. Question 3Sandra’s husband is the cause of the negative influence and emotional stress on her behavior and decision making. Her previous decisions about travel and the volunteer work cannot be fulfilled since her husband has health issues which require close attention. Besides, she
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ENVIRONMENT AND THE FAMILY SYSTEM3is not able to leave him to make her wishes and chooses to keep on looking after him and live miserably. Sandra also accepts the fact that her husband is an alcoholic and even abusive. She stays angry but keeps on with it and has to take care of him since she feels it is required of him totake up the responsibility of caring for her husband. Question 4A HSP may help her manage her stress and trauma by ensuring she focuses on the relationship between the physical demands which are the stressors, and stress. This may, in turn, ensure she can cope up with the stress her husband has subjected her to. There are many steps an individual may decide take personal charge in handling their stresses, while others require the professional guidance to be assisted fully (Walsh, 2003). A HSP may hence help Sandra to find ways to reduce the impact of emotional stress. They may suggest visualization, meditation or even talk therapy. The techniques will allow someone to reduce their stresses while they counteract the negative physical impacts.Question 5No, Sandra involving her children in his motional struggles would have little impacts on her family system. Since her children have also undergone the same abuse by their father, looking for professional help or counsel would be better instead of helping their mother. By involving her adult children, this would, in turn, add more emotional stress from what they have been undergoing together instead of helping her.
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