Family Therapy Tactics: Case Studies

This assignment requires students to apply different family therapy tactics to specific cases, utilizing various references such as 'Functional Family Therapy' by Alexander et al. and 'Rebuilding Trust' by Goodkind et al. Students will analyze each family's background, consider their unique challenges, and develop tailored solutions using a mix of strategies from the provided sources.

Youth and Their
Families

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
1. 10 questions to gather important background information and circumstances..................1
2. Power differentials between the family members..............................................................1
3. Concept of privacy and confidentiality..............................................................................3
4. Communication techniques to provide the family in clear, factual and ethical way..........3
5. Tools to identify the issue of family and behavioural change to improve the relationship3
6. Honest relationship between primary and secondary clients.............................................4
7. Attending family meeting to reflect the issue.....................................................................4
8. Strategies used to encourage family members to take personal responsibility..................4
9. Obstacles which affect the professional relationship.........................................................5
10. A: Type of safety or ethical concerns with Balagee family.............................................5
B: Youth work code of conduct and ethics............................................................................5
11. A: Impact on cultural values.............................................................................................5
B: Apart from cultural background and create multicultural acceptance in youth work ......5
12. List of communication skills as good and bad practices..................................................6
13. The objectives of family align with solid youth's policies and serves outcomes ............6
14. Miracle question and goals for outcome meetings...........................................................6
15. Goals and objectives of John............................................................................................7
16. SMART objectives...........................................................................................................7
17. Information about Max concerned with Paul and Margaret.............................................7
18. Plan of activities and timetable for John and their family................................................7
19. Indicators of concern, pattern of behaviours and strength barriers to family involvement8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Youth is the period in between childhood and adulthood. It is defined as an appearance,
spirit and many more characteristics of young ones (Ngo and et.al., 2013). In this stage, the
youth usually have to deal with troubling mind and mould behavior and they need extra care
from their family members.
According to the given case scenario, John lives with his parents, Paul and Margaret.
Although they bring max, to their home who is kinship brother of John. Max has a record of
underage intoxication, violence, petrol sniffing and many more. He was living with Paul,
Margret and John and then later on started hanging out with older boys. His family was also
being summoned by police several times and poke John as by abuses him due this kind of
behaviour John getting disturbed mentally. So, to resolve the matter they take help with solid
youth. In this report will going to cover entire questionnaire through which can get to know
about the background of their family, and how refer how to deal with th concept of the privacy
and confidentially while living in the family. Also cover the communication key betweent the
family by maintaining the decorum so through this also resolve issues.
1. 10 questions to gather important background information and circumstances
There are ten question through which the social worker would get to know about their
background and circumstances with the help of questionnaire.
1. What is your full name? Why did your parents select this name for you?
2. When and where were you born?
3. How did your family come to live there?
4. Were there other family members in the area? Who?
5. What was the house (apartment, farm, etc.) like? Rooms? Bathrooms? Did it has electricity?
6. Describe the personalities of your family members.
7. What world events had the most impact on you while you were growing up? Did any of them
personally affect your family?
8. Describe a typical family dinner. Did you all eat together as a family? Who did cooking? What
were your favourite foods?
9. How holidays were (birthdays, Christmas, etc.) celebrated in your family? Did your family
have special traditions?
10. What do you know about your family surname?
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2. Power differentials between the family members
Person 1 Person 2 Has power How
John Max Max Max misuses
his power by
bullying and
dominating
John
Paul Max Paul Paul is the
elder them him
and always
show right
direction.
Margret Max Margret For Max,
Margret is her
aunty and she
want him to be
good boy.
Paul Margret Paul He is the head
of family and
making efforts
to fix issues.
John Paul Paul Because The
Paul is father of
john and he
want hinm to be
happy and
healthy as
before.
John Margret Margret Margret is the
mother of John
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and so, she can
order and make
him understand
with supporting
her.
3. Concept of privacy and confidentiality
Privacy and confidentiality can be described as the concealment that actually refers the
enough right to control , overaccess themselves by including physical privacy. It also ensures to
keep information of oneself by them that comes under the laws regulated. On the other hand,
confidentiality refers to the subject matter only and according to the legal duty of this solitude.
They have to obligate professional to health care to protect against that, not so appropriate
disclosure of some personal information towards an individual.
4. Communication techniques to provide the family in clear, factual and ethical way
There are various techniques of communication which help in improving the family
relationship. Some of them are as follows:-
Communicate frequently: - It is important to spend time with each other as a family and
share their good movements of life with each other (Lev, 2013). This will lead to generate a
strong bonding in between all of them. Now, people would not have much time.
Clearly and directly: - Healthy family structure usually shares the thoughts, feelings and
love in a clear and direct manner. It is important to resolve many problems only with doing
conversation each other.
5. Tools to identify the issue of family and behavioural change to improve the relationship
There are various tools through which as a solid youth worker help to identify problem of
Balagee family . Some of them are as follows:-
Survey :- Through family survey investigation, they will get to know the problem while
doing face to face interview that would get to know various things about family bonding. Along
with this, it will also analyse and observe them personally which also helps in understanding the
nature of each family member with helping in figuring out the issue from root.
Questionnaire: - Questionnaire needs to be prepared in which they have to include all
types of questions that will get an idea about their family issue and conflicts. It will also reveal
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their family condition and extent to which they spend with each other and amount that they
require to fix the issue.
6. Honest relationship between primary and secondary clients
As worker solid youth, it is important to give priority to primary client first which is John
because the complete scenario is revolving around that person (Odom and et.al., 2010). He got
bulled by his kinship brother and he started hating Max antagonising along with crying several
times. Currently, John is dealing with mental disturbance due to him. By doing the direct and
honest communication with John, it will help in understanding the issue from his side. Later on,
it is important to interrogate other secondary clients of family such as Paul, Margret and Max.
Though this, they will also get to know various facts and major issues from various perceptions
of rest of the family members. It is important to initiate with the primary clients and take them on
priority.
7. Attending family meeting to reflect the issue
Family involvement increases the child's performance and enhance their brain in various
different sector it also keep mind healthy . It is very important when the family facing with major
issues so they have to deal with various communication tools and techniques (10 Tips for
Successful Family Meetings. 2017). Some of them are as follows:-
 Direct communications so through this they all get together
 By telephonic invitation is better to talk over phone for meeting
 By formal letter and mails they can any time mail them.
8. Strategies used to encourage family members to take personal responsibility
When the controversies and issues revolve then they have to bestable with the
responsibilities of family members. They also try to maintain healthy bonding among all of them.
Some of the strategies are as follows:-
 Meet regularly as by arranged scheduled timing so they can It will help in building strong
bond and healthy communication is a key to resolving any kind of matter.
 Rotate meetings and responsibilities which equally provide all of the family members
with the practice at the solving problem (Holmes and et.al., 2012).
 Encourage all the members of the family to participate in the meetings and respective
discussions. So, this will help in maintaining healthy relation.
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9. Obstacles which affect the professional relationship
In this scenario, there are various things which affect the relationship professionally.
Some of these are as follows:-
Poorly designed professional development: - It is the barrier in which this is difficult for
them to handle working conditions, systematic challenges and other conflicts. It leads to the lack
of quality of professional development (Ryan and et.al., 2010). It often reflects constrains of
budgets and lack of facilitators well-qualified, logical challenge and excitability.
10. A: Type of safety or ethical concerns with Balagee family
Transparency: - It is important to provide fair and honest working conditions between
the c clients and consultant of social youth. . They have to create fair and honest conditions
through which they can easily resolve their issue.
B: Youth work code of conduct and ethics
Youth usually works with young people to improve and develop working and facilitate
them to their social, personal and educational development. In this, they enhance their voice and
influence society plans to reach at their full potential (Hanson and Lang, 2016).
11. A: Impact on cultural values
Cultural values help individuals to improve their performance and basic plan of actions.
They actually feeling, symbols, specific norms, practices and other value which depict in every
things. Some of them are as follows:-
 Home care and the social ecological model
 The cultural context of home care
 Commitment towards the family care
B: cultural background which create multicultural acceptance in youth work
Along with the youth passion, the balagee family will also pursue the multiculturalism or
process towards their young proper, peer in the specific program (Stanton-Salazar, 2011).
Multicultural is very effective some of the philosophy acceptance in the youth are as follows:-
 When youth is empowered then they already become participants in construction and
reconstruction of the world.
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 Fear of difference, one instruct which is social construction and demands of humanity of
both the oppressor and oppressed.
12. List of communication skills as good and bad practices
S. no. DO DON’T
1. Be clear and direct Give more attention to phone calls than
people
2 Paraphrase Overuse abbreviations
3 Be respectful Monopolize
4 Tailor conversation of audience React or get upset
5 Face to face Interrupt
13. The objectives of family and their policies which serves outcomes
 By making available home based and non-judgemental which focus on the person centred
and support. This actually reduces stress and isolation although raise the confidence and
well-being of the family (Goodkind and et.al., 2011).
 Woking along with the families which encourage and support them by engaging with
other organisations.
 Make ensure to the families which able to access to all available supports.
14. Miracle question and goals for outcome meetings
Paul and Margret :- There miracle question will be “That thee son John and max live
happily together although share good bonding with each other by helping and enjoying each
other”.
John: - “That his brother should stop bullyhim and teasing him. Share good bond with
him. He also wants to be healthy mindset away from depression.”
Max: - “He wants to have fun and need love in that scenario and surrounding. Also need
fun family which he can get from the John, Paul and Margret.”
15. Goals and objectives of John
Free mind: - He is quite disturb from his brother, Max and now, he wants to restart and
give himself rest from the depressed routine.
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Leaning: - He wants to learn various good acquisition things which help him in climbing
and reattach to their particular aim.
Loving family: - The other goal is to stay and share a strong bond with their family that
listens and consoles him with taking due care and providing love (Yoshikawa, Aber and
Beardslee, 2012).
16. SMART objectives
S: - specific, It demands to know and achieve what they hope to gain from doing any of
the particular things. It depict their particular goals which is resolving their issues and also
develop their communication through which they attain achievements.
M: - Measurable, It is important to ensure and evaluate easily their goals which they are
willing to meat and beneficial. It is vital step by measuring company and that will help to
calculate their issue like how much it is process and how much it is left.
A: - Achievable, It is important to stay realistic when it comes to setting up the goals and
that will avoid deadlines and getting behind accurately. It is the goal which is set by them and
they've to achieve as in the case scenario.
R: - Results- focused, it demands to be very clear about certain outcomes in order to meet
their goals. It also depict that whether the target is achievable or not it should be feasible by the
time and situation.
T: - Time bound, Set deadlines each for goals at more complex challenges steps for the
major process. It is the time period which is set by the balagee family and that worker which
heeling them out to resolve their matter. They set time period of 1 month they have o resolve
issue.
17. Information about Max concerned with Paul and Margaret
Paul and Margaret is genuinely concern about the max along with the John because the
max used to be extremely naughty and his record was not so good. But max is not understanding
and he also started his naughty actions here by to torturing John badly, Due to this the John
stopped to come home and meet Max he was kind of scare to meet him.
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18. Plan of activities and timetable for John and their family
John lives with their parents Paul and Margret. John is 16 years old and he loves to go
outing and play football as well he is good in studies too because he got good grades in all the
examinations and he is kind of ideal son (Alexander and et.al., 2013). Who also work part time at
Fast food Company for their pocket money and help the people who are around with their home.
Their family mother and father is also working ad they used to live happily and through put
genuine scheduled time table.
19. Indicators of concern, pattern of behaviours and strength barriers to family
involvement
PERSON STRENGTH WEAKNESS PATHERN
John Good in studies,
Plays football
Get easily
dominated
intelligent
Margret Mature Nil Decent
Paul Experienced Nil Calm
Max Quick learner Too naughty and
bully
Violent
CONCLUSION
As per the above assignment, it can be concluded that John is very disturbed from his
Kinship brother Max. The idea of their parents which was good to hire consultant. So, with the
help of that individual, they can also resolve the issue of their family and live happily. It has been
assessed that consultant adopted various tools and techniques to improve and know about the
family persons and their background by using various tactics and solving the issue.
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