Grape Family Anne Reynolds SOWK 545 February 14‚ 2013 Victoria Winsett The Grape Family Family Composition The Grape family in the movie “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape” consists of five siblings: Larry‚ Amy‚ Gilbert‚ Arnie‚ and Ellen. The mother and father are now deceased. The father committed suicide sixteen years ago in the family’s basement at the age of forty. The mother recently passed away from complications due to morbid obesity‚ her age unknown. This is a Caucasian family that
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The Family Crucible Christine Lovejoy Activity 7 Dr. Brown As I was reading The Family Crucible‚ I felt as if I was in the therapy session with Carl Whitaker. The book provides an excellent example of family structure‚ and how the system can quickly break-down. The book also provides a detailed account around family relationships‚ personal attitudes‚ values‚ and psychological existence that affect our everyday roles for example‚ the role of a spouse‚ friend‚ and family member (i.e. Sister
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Experiential therapy uses expressive tools and activities‚ such as role playing or acting‚ using props‚ arts and crafts‚ music‚ animal care‚ guided image‚ or various forms of recreation to re-enact and re-experience emotional situations from past and recent relationships. This type of therapy can be beneficial for couples or individual therapy and through developmental learning styles that can be used for personal growth. Experiential therapy was designed to identify with humanistic values‚ understanding
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Book Critique Two: Family to Family Presented to In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for: Bibliographical Entry Pipes‚ Jerry and Victor Lee. Family to Family‚ Families Making a Difference. Lawrenceville‚ GA: Jerry Pipes Productions‚ 1999. Author Information The authors of the book are Jerry Pipes and Victor Lee. Content Summary In the book‚ Family to Family‚ Families Making a Difference‚ the writers detail the major
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For its time‚ narrative therapy was considered radical and unlike past therapies used. The major contributors‚ Michael White and David Epston‚ put aside the main idea and view of the preceding and dominate psychological theories and focused on the person’s story. Both White and Epston were influenced by French post-structural philosopher Michel Foucault. His ideas were largely based on existentialism‚ which gave worth to a person’s own experience. Narrative therapy became a tool to help people
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Eating Disorders and the Family Environment Ashley Gallagher (210331007) SWOK 2035 Professor Lackstrom Section A - Fall Term Final Essay December 1st‚ 2012 Eating disorders are considered to be psychosomatic illnesses that can impair both overall health and psychosocial functioning of individuals‚ primarily in females although the occurrence of eating disorders in males is becoming more frequent. Eating disorders and the analysis of family relationships and interactions is a popular topic
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This paper will evaluate the effectiveness of Brief Narrative Therapy in treating abused women who are in shelters. In addition to living with violence‚ many women who seek shelter have been living in poverty‚ dependent on humanitarian aid‚ and suffering from trauma. Being abused undermines virtually every aspect of a woman’s life; her physical as well as her mental health. Psychiatric effects may include depression‚ suicidal thoughts‚ dissociation‚ Post Traumatic Stress Disorder‚ eating disorders
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------------------------------------------------- Family Therapy Family therapy is a form of counseling which specializes in treating family relationships. Marriage and Family Therapists can work with every combination of family relationship (whole families or couples‚ parents with children or individual members) to assist a family to function in more comfortable and useful ways. While most family therapists work alone with family members‚ others may work in pairs or a larger team of therapists. How Does Family Therapy Work? Family
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Narrative Family Counseling Approach Research Paper Keltic University Abstract Narrative therapy is a social constructive philosophical approach to psychotherapy that has been developed to help clients deconstruct their negative and self-defeating life stories while rebuilding healthy and positive life stories through the use of various techniques. This paper will discuss the leading figures‚ some concepts and techniques‚ ethics‚ some similarities and dissimilarities of other theories compared
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self-help plan. The family systems theory can provide different perspectives to see if a problem is not as large as it may seem. This can come from something that is or is not within your control and it affects people in either a negative or positive way. In this paper family system tools‚ and behaviorism and social learning‚ Adlerian theory‚ contingency and conflict theories will be discussed. Each section will talk about the individual theory and how it can be used. Family Systems Tools As we
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