The Child‚ Family and Service Act (CFCSA) documentation policy requires child welfare agencies to maintain documentation about assessments‚ actions taken and services provided for each child and family within established procedures and timeframes (Smith & Donovan‚ 2003). Social workers may be pulled into complicated battles between divorcing parents‚ child custody‚ or child abuse charges‚ which summon detailed documentation for someone in authority to use in decision-making (Leon & Pepe‚ 2010). Specially
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The Many Kinds of Family Structures in Our Communities Julie Olsen Edwards Based on the author’s work with Louise Derman-Sparks in Anti-bias Education for Children and Ourselves NAEYC 2009 Children grow up in many different structures of families‚ and‚ at different times in their lives‚ their family structure may change. For young children‚ the family in which they live is the “normal” family. It is when children enter group programs outside of their homes that they discover that there are
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The Family Life Cycle Winston-Salem State University The dynamics of the “Family Life Cycle” are forever changing due to environmental factors around us. We live in a country that has legalized same sex marriages and the media glorifies a dysfunctional government. So this leads us to the “Nature vs. Nurture” debate. The “Nature vs. Nurture” dispute has been around for years. The issue is trying to determine which factors have the greatest influence on human behavior. Environmental factors
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Solution-Focused Therapy Solution- Focused Therapy is a model that is goal oriented. The desired target of treatment is to find a solution to the problem‚ rather than focusing on the problem itself. Solution-focused therapy was founded in the early 1090s at the Brief Family Therapy Family Center‚ which was located in Milwaukee‚ Wisconsin. Two of the leading founders for this technique were Steve de Shazer‚ and Insoo Kim Berg. They believed that if the therapist and client worked together to set
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Family Systems Theories Bowen’s Family Systems Theory Dr. Murray Bowen’s family system theory is an integrative theory that conceptualized “the family as an emotional unit and the individual as part of that unit rather than an autonomous psychological entity” (Kerr‚ 1988‚ p.35). This theory posits that individuals cannot be understood in isolation from their families‚ because families are in themselves systems of interrelated and interdependent individuals involved in reciprocal relationships (Kerr
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individuals. One’s family‚ religion‚ and education are the three major forms of institutions in which play highly vital roles in growth. These institutions act as a means of providing opportunity for individual’s overall growth. As Erikson’s stages of psychosocial development demonstrates‚ the first 5 of the 8 stages all include the person’s family‚ religion and education as a significant connection required for healthy human development from infancy to late adulthood. A family can be defined as
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The Family Institution Lamar Mack SOC 101 Pamela Spence April 25‚ 2011 The American family is normally composed of two parents‚ mother and father‚ and the rearing of a single to numerous children. Within the family institution‚ the three sociological theories of functionalism‚ conflict‚ and interactionism are experienced. The purpose of this paper is to explore how each theory applies to the family‚ the similarities and the differences. How each theory affects the views of the individuals
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views on the family Functionalists believe that the family have specific or traditional functions within the family. One function of the family would be reproduction or having children as this is imperative for the world as they will be the future workforce. For example family businesses will need to pass down the factories/shops to the next generation in the family for the continuing of the ancestors business. Other functions include economic maintenance this is where the family provides necessities
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counseling could potentially be the most beneficial. Structural therapy model can be applied to looking at these risk factors when dealing with single mothers and may be a beneficial therapy to manipulate while working with such a population. Structural Family Therapy “The trajectory of assessment in structural family therapy moves from linear perspective‚ in which problems are located in the identified patient‚ to an interactional perspective‚ in which problems are seen as involving other members of the family” Nichols and Tafuri (2013) stated to
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and other sources that you have used during your time at WKU to develop your theoretical knowledge. 1. How does change occur? Change is fundamental in therapy‚ as a result the main reason clients/family seek professional help in the first place is the desire for something to change or they yearn to change others. According to Tartakovsky‚ “In therapy‚ change may mean letting go of dysfunctional relationship patterns‚ irrational beliefs and self-sabotaging behaviors and then replacing them with a more
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