Part I: Short Answer Questions
Answer the 5 short answer questions below. Each short answer response should be between 100- 200 words (they cannot exceed 200 words). You are to include the short answer question along with the answer. (be sure to number the questions).
What is the main purpose of the genogram from the family systems perspective?What is the function of Minuchin’s family mapping?What are the similarities and differences between both?
There are multiple variations to the standard genogram. In addition to standard genogram goals, what do sexual genograms attempt to uncover? What are the proposed changes for use of the sexual genogram with sexual issues? Another variation revolves around understanding kinship via function and biology. Functional relationships that are depicted and integrated into, for example, an African American genogram are based on what concepts? What is the difference between Functional Kinship: Nonbiological Kin and Functional Role Kinship: Biological Kin?
Define invisible loyalty and split filial loyalty . Provide a possible detailed case example not discussed in class that depicts these concepts ? How would you describe the family ledger in this case and what led to these patterns according to the Contextual Family Therapy model? ?
What is the emphasis of the Structural Family Model? How would this model describe a good enough well-functioning family and what would lead to family discourse or dysfunction? In your opinion, what are the key strengths and possible limitations of this approach?
Describe the common theme and focus of therapy across all the experiential family models. Discuss what role does attachment, especially early childhood attachments, play in couples’communication and interactive patterns? What experiential model holds the attachment theory as its cornerstone and why?
Part II: Terms
Define the 4 terms below. Provide a definition in your own words. Definitions are not to exceed 45 words.
Family legacy
Minuchin's Triangulation
3. Enactment4. Attachment Injury
Part III:Case of the Johnson’s family. Please carefully read the case below and respond to the prompt. Be detailed and descriptive in your response. Provide supporting evidence and explanation of your responses using proper terminology.
Mr. and Mrs. Johnson came to family therapy and their complaints were mirror images.He claimed that she was “bossy and demanding”; she said that he “had to have everything his own way.” Mr. Johnson was the youngest in a close-knit family of five. He described his mother as a warm and loving stay-home mother but said she tried to smother him and that she discouraged all his efforts to be independent. Subjected to same pressures, his two older sisters knuckled under and still remain unmarried, living with the parents. Mr. Johnson’s father was amarine and was rarely home. Mr. Johnson and his siblings grew up hearing the mother tell them that the wives always have to do all the work at home and take care of the family. She would often complain to her children how the father would come home from service on a leave to onlyhave sex. Mr. Johnson, however, rebelled against the mother’s stringent rules and left home tojoin the Marines at age seventeen. As he shared his experience in the Marine Corps and successful business ventures, it was clear that he was proud of his independence.
Mr. Johnson is confronting his wife about wanting to get a second job now that the daughter is 15 years old. He is convinced and accuses her that the daughter is doing poorly inschool and got two tattoos without permission. He tells his wife, “your bossiness didn’t get our daughter anywhere except failure. You should’ve spent more time at home rather than work.”Mrs. Johnson would often cry out in session that she feels all alone and not cared about. Mrs.Johnson would criticize her husband’s lack of involvement and comments on her constant concern for the daughter. Meanwhile, the daughter usually remains quiet sitting with her feet up on the chair next to the father.
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