Using material from Item A and elsewhere assess sociological explanations of the nature and extent of family diversity today.…
London presents as a 24-year old biracial woman of African-American and Caucasian decent. London came into counseling due to ongoing depression and poor peer relations caused by her anxiety and mistrust issues. London is a single mother recently discharged from the military with minimal support systems in place. She is currently working in a job she dislikes and feels trapped in her present life as it is. Her child’s father is incarcerated and she has been hiding this information from her family out of fear of judgment.…
Rhona and Robert Rapoport (1982) argue that diversity is of central importance in understanding family life today. They believe that we have moved away from the traditional nuclear family as the dominant family type, to a range of different diverse types. Families in Britain have adapted to a pluralistic society; a society in which cultures and lifestyles are more diverse. In their view, family diversification represents greater freedom of choice and the widespread acceptance of different cultures and ways of life. Unlike the New Right, the Rapoports see diversity as a response to people different needs and wishes, not as abnormal or deviation from the assumed norm of the nuclear family. The Rapoports identify five different types of family diversity. Organisational diversity refers to the differences in the ways family roles are organised. For example, some couples have joint conjugal roles and others have segregated conjugal roles. Cultural diversity is the belief that different cultural, religious and ethnic groups have different family structures. Social class diversity is the differences in family structure that are partly the result of income differences between households of different classes. Life stage diversity states that family structures differ according to the stage reached in the life cycle- for example, newly-weds, couples with children, retired couples whose children have left home and widows or widowers who are living alone. The last type of family diversity is generational diversity; older and younger generations have different attitudes and experiences that reflect the historical periods in which they have lived. For example, they may have different views about the morality of divorce or cohabitation.…
They were the Jones family. The Jones family had a husband, wife, a grandmother, and a small 4 year old boy. I didn’t really speak to the grandmother that much. It was just an ordinary hello. I mostly spoke to the couple about everything. They both were college graduates and employed. First, the wife was laid off about a year and a half ago and then the husband about 9 months ago. It was so hard for both of them to find a job. All this time they had been surviving off of their savings but eventually came a point when those were gone too. Now they purity much just live at the center and their car and the center is the one that provides them with food. The couple are just tensed and yet still are trying to find a job. Grandma is just old and quiet keeping all her emotions inside of her. The cute little boy is clueless of what has happened to them. He is just happy in his own little world and plays with other children that came to the center once in a while. I remember not clearly, but while I was observing he was talking about going back home, was kind of depressing. I also, interviewed another couple somewhere in their middle adulthood with no children. They both were working in the same firm due to the economy their firm was laying people off randomly and both of them ended up losing their job. I didn’t go up to the woman as she was on the phone. I decided to talk to an old white man somewhere in his late fifties early sixties. He was by himself. At first I didn’t want to speak to him because I was afraid that what if he yells at me, but then I decided to just go ahead and do it because it would be a different age group , gender, and an interview of a homeless just as an individual. I was being as polite as I can to him and put out my questions to him in the form of a conversation not as an interview so it doesn’t offend him. His name was Timothy Garter. Like everyone child he went to school and…
Similarly, the concept of gift giving and receiving can lead to ethical concerns where some counselors and clients are not open to accepting gifts of any sort. Depending on cultural values, some clients might view counselors’ rejection of gifts as being disrespectful and may tarnish the counseling relationship that was built.…
1. Read pages 328/9 in Tassoni, P. et al (2007) Child care and education and write notes on the different types of family structure.…
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Educational- when we look at the educational levels of people and the actions that they take we see that those with low educational levels may produce actions that others with higher educational levels may not make. If we are looking at a person’s level of education concerning religious views, such as Christianity, we would see that the person without the knowledge of what sins are that person may unknowingly commit a sin (McCall, 2011). We could also look at a person’s education in criminal or civil laws if a person has not knowledge that an action is a violation of the law then the person may commit a criminal act unknowingly (McCall, 2011). Without the education, in these areas, the person will have no choice in breaking the law because they did not know beforehand that…
Honey has learned to cope with their situation and block out the negative energy that comes with it. She stated that she receives calls from Jordan’s family often, but she has no time for it. She explained how she is discriminated against when people see her and Jordan in public. Jordan is an Irish child and Ms. Honey is African American, but people tend to ask Jordan questions about her wellbeing and they take it as if Ms. Honey isn’t providing the proper care. Jordan tends to discuss Ms. Honey to others, but when they see her they take it as if she isn’t the caregiver or doesn’t fit the description. She is stereotyped by other individuals based on how they expect her to look because she isn’t Caucasian or Irish which they expect. The focus is more on the impact that things have on Jordan. Ms. Honey talks to Jordan to get her point of view on comments that are made to her to see how she feels. The happiness of Jordan is her main goal because she has been through a lot as a child. The interview was lengthy and very…
Attempting to understand family life can be done through many different perspectives. The most central theory in the study of family sciences is the Family Systems Theory. The perspective of Family Systems Theory can be summarized through the phrase “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts”. Family Systems Theory attempts to understand the series of connections between the individual parts of a family and how these interactions and connections affect the family as a whole. A family system is made up of the connections between individuals in a family. Family systems interactions with outside systems determine the openness and permeability of the boundaries surrounding a family system. The goals of a family system affect the behaviors and patterns that become the family structure. Subsystems within the family interact with each other and affect the relationships between individuals. Of course family units are not static and therefore the rules, traditions, and day-to-day behavior of a family system must constantly be changing in order to keep the course of reaching their goals in equilibrium. Family systems are united in their desire to achieve goals formed from a [unified] family paradigm or ideal. In this paper I will use family systems theory to interpret how my own family goals motivate the structures and processes that make up our family system. Family Systems Theory allows me to understand my family’s processes as working towards the family goals to have fun, create togetherness, work together towards accomplishment, and be spiritually strong.…
My client is a 32-year-old woman named Sonya. Sonya‘s heritage is multicultural as her mother is Hispanic and Caucasian and her father was Afro-American. Sonya identifies herself as an Afro –American raised by a white middle-class family. Green (2008) states, “Historically, biracial individuals have been portrayed as lost souls…” (p. 39). Sonya is among a group of individuals who Andrea Catherine Green referred to as the Grey Girls in the title for her dissertation for her Doctor of Psychology degree. Unaware that the effects of living as a biracial were severely eroding her daughter’s self-concept, Sonya’s mother thought that she was a typical teenage girl.…
The family dynamics of the TV show “Married with Children” depicts a dysfunctional, but yet understanding between each family member. Their daily interaction with each other would suggest lack of communication that is taken seriously in the family unit. The husband (Al- Bundy) and wife (Peggy Bundy) presented a disconnection between the two of them steaming from the dysfunction in their marriage. Al Bundy attitude towards his wife appeared to be one with lack of an intimate and emotional connection. Peggy Bundy appeared to have an unconditional love for her husband, but seems to be missing the love that she wants from her husband. Their relationship seemed to be functionally dysfunctional as they move through their everyday lives. Peggy and Al relationship seem to affect their relationship with their children Kelly and Bud, presenting as such of lack of respect for their father.…
Schilb, John and John Clifford, “Making Literature Matter: An Anthology for Readers and Writers.” 4th ed.…
As clinicians our inability to relate to clients due to different social identities such as race, socio-economic class, and other factors may cause difficulty in practice. Discussion of social location, “a process in which the therapist initiates a conversation with a family about similarities and differences in their key identities, such as race, ethnicity, gender, class, sexual orientation, and religion, and how they may potentially influence the therapy process” (Watts-Jones, 2010, pg.405), is useful in facilitating understanding of this common barrier of practice. Fortunately, I have discussed social location with clients and can think of various instances when this discussion was useful. My first instance of discussing social indicators…
This writer conducted an interview with an Asian family. Family consist of father who work as a lawyer ,mother she is a…