Family Therapy - Assignment
Added on 2021-04-19
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0Running Head: FAMILY THERAPYFamily therapyAuthor’s name:
1 FAMILY THERAPYContentsCase scenario...............................................................................................................................................2Family history..........................................................................................................................................2Family therapy techniques..........................................................................................................................4Constructive family therapy....................................................................................................................4Strategic family therapy..........................................................................................................................5Compare and contrast strategic and constructive family therapy...............................................................6Bibliography................................................................................................................................................8
2 FAMILY THERAPYCase scenario Family history Alice and John white have two children a 13 year old son Jayden and a 16 year old daughter Sky. John is a medical doctor at Johns Hopkins hospital, working as an orthopedic surgeon and Alice is a civil engineer currently working with M&M Construction Company. This family on the outside looks like the most perfect family, their children goes to one of the most expensive private school, they go on family vacations and to the outside world they are perfect. They have been experiencing problems within the family when Sky expressed her interest in dancing; she wants to be a professional belly dancer; however her father wanted her to pursue medicine because she is a straight A student but Sky doesn’t want to medicine. Her mother is in support of her career choice, and her father is not. Sky’s career choice has led to so much conflict that the parents openly argue in front oftheir children. The arguments have taken a serious tool on Jayden who feels to have been forgotten because every conversation in the house is about Sky. This has made Jayden’s adolescent defiance worse; he comes late at night smelling of alcohol and Bhang. Sky on the other hand is depressed and she has resulted to self-harm because of the conflicts in the house and engaging into sexual activity with a boy in the local gang.
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