...PYC4808 ASSIGNMENT 03 STUDENT NUMBER: 3409-367-2 UNIQUE NUMBER: 842914 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Construct a three-generational genogram of this family system 2. Draw an ecomap of this family in context Briefly describe 3. (a) the story as probably seen from the perspective of each one of the family members. (b) The story from the vantage point of the family’s position in the family life cycle. 4. Provide a first-order cybernetic description of this case. 5. How would a second-order thinker describe this case? References. PAGE NUMBER 1 1 2-4 5 6-8 9 - 12 12 1. 2. The story as probably seen from the perspective of each of the family members Mavis: I am not sure what to do about April anymore. All she does is lie to my husband and I. I have tried my best in giving her the best life possible but nothing seems to work. Nobody understands what I have been through and I want to give April the life I never had. My parents divorced when I was only 5 years old and it tore me apart. I was forced to live with my step-mother and she threw me out when I was 18. April has it is so soft compared to the childhood I have had, she does not appreciate it. I am glad that John loves April as his own daughter and that he takes care of us but he does not understand how I feel and cannot console or comfort me when I need him to. All I want is what is best for our family but April’s lies and behavior is even causing strain on the relationship I have with John. I want to give April the support and...
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...This is my first ecomap experience and I must say that it was very thought-provoking and challenging. Also, creating the ecomap opened new artistic skills for me. I used ten systems of transactional relationships, without a doubt I could have used more. I want to note that I placed my three children in their own system because of the varied transactional differences that I experience with each. My ecomap analysis consists of social supports, community resources, and stressors that compose my relationships and environments. Beginning with my social supports, I have included in this network my spouse, my children, church, grandchildren, school, and work. My spouse and I have a strong connection. This connection is not at the maximum level because...
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...fulfillment of NR 478 Community Health Nursing Practicum Regis University October 17, 2012 Family Health Risk Assessment Health risk assessment is an important component in health promotion and disease prevention in the individual, the family and the community. Choices can be healthy or unhealthy and each individual’s exposure may not have the same implementation. “The factors that determine or influence whether disease or other unhealthy results occur are called health risk” (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2010, p. 334). This paper discusses the family and the assessment process. The use of the genogram and ecomap will be used to present family data. By reviewing the genogram, biological and age-related risks facing the family will be determined. The ecomap will present the social and environmental risks facing the family. As a final point, an analysis of the genogram and ecomap will be utilized to summarize the family strengths and problems or potential problems. Introduction of the Family and the Assessment Process The J family has the following family members: * Mr. D. J., a 58 year old financial analysis who just recently lost his job, has obesity, hypercholesterol, sleep apnea and borderline hypertension * Mrs. B. S., a 58 year old mother, a full-time Registered Nurse, and going to college part-time, has hypercholesterol and suffers with gastroparesis * R. S., a 32 year old medical assistant, works full-time, is a single mother who lives with her parents D. J...
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...people and shape their behaviors. Families in particular provide for one’s first understanding of themselves and their surrounding world. Furthermore, families create meaning and early social constructs. Since starting my doctoral studies at George Williams College, I have gained a new perspective and appreciation for family systems and structural frameworks because they reflexively complement and underscore their clinical predecessors such as psychodynamic and psychoanalytic theories. I tend to use systems and structural components most during the assessment phase of therapy, for example, by constructing genograms and on occasion ecomaps. In a collateral assignment to my outpatient work as psychotherapist, I conduct pre-court evaluations for the Kenosha County specialty courts (e.g. Drug Treatment Court and Behavioral Health Treatment Court). Ecomaps help to illustrate relationships with informal and formal systems; they also highlight current services and potential gaps for program participants, whereas genograms not only facility dialogue between the client, but also produces important historical data. I would like to build upon my current use of genograms, and by extension family systems theory, as an intervention tool. In that capacity, I could move beyond collecting background and contextual information to therapeutic processing. Even in an individual format, genogram work can be useful in working through unresolved issues with family members, such as trauma....
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...An eco-map is a tool that assesses the individual families, social and community relationships social workers uses that to help with the development of case plans. The Eco map is a detail picture that displays the client relationships with their external connections both positive and negative connections. In an eco-map a dark straight line represents a important relationship between the client and the external connection. A broken dotted straight line represents a weak connection. Dark straight lines with crosses through them indicates a stressful relationship. Using the ecomap it will help the practitioner to understand the family values and assist with encouraging client and families to open up during the session. The external connections that are listed on my ecomap are church, home, school and job. All four external connections has help with my personal development. The connection I have with my church is positive. Attending Ezion Mt Carmel presented me with so many opportunities me being a part of seeds of hope dance ministry the choir, girl scouts, stop the violence coalition. I also gain mentors that are still in my life today. A s a child being a part of all those programs and receiving the positive guidance kept me out of trouble and influenced me to do positive things....
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...nclude the following in complete sentences based on the eco-map you submitted on LeRoy Karas: For your introduction, provide a one paragraph summary about LeRoy. Give a brief history of his life. For your second paragraph, based on your ecomap of LeRoy, explain the strongest influences on his behavior. In your third paragraph explain how LeRoy's ecomap might change as he transitions from middle adulthood to late adulthood. Include information about either Levinson's life structure theory or Erik Erikson's theory of psychosocial development to explain the transitions LeRoy is experiencing. Your fourth paragraph should be about your own prejudices or biases. Answer the following questions in paragraph four: If you were working with LeRoy, do you think you would have any prejudices or biases toward any of the systems affecting his behavior? If so, what would they be and how would you handle them? What stereotypes and misconceptions would you have to consider? (Be sure to use the information on ethics from the National Organization of Human Services and refer to it in your answer.) In your fifth and concluding paragraph, explain what you might learn in terms of your own behavior from working with LeRoy or another client similar to him. What attitudes or behaviors often change within you as a result of working with people and helping others? Your Assignment should include a cover page and a final reference page where you cite your course text, the National Organization for...
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...The family goes to family dinner once a week with M’s side of the family. They participate in sports with their friends and family. They use government resources such as food stamps, and child care assistance. A is involved in child care and interacts with other kids on a daily bases. The family’s ecomap showed strong relationships with friends and family. Two full time jobs and L is also a full time student. They all regularly see a health care provider, and dentist. M and A are very involved with family and attend all family events. See appendix C for more information on the family’s ecomap. These findings show an active family that is involved in activities and social with family and friends. This is used for identifying health risk and risk reduction. Regular exercise helps prevent obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. Substance abuse risk is seen to decrease in children with a close family, families that do activities together, and behaviors modeled in the family. This can help identify risk factors amongst the family (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2014,...
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...Yulawnda Patton HN 144: Unit 9 Assignment Kaplan University LeRoy Karas was a young outgoing teenager who was the eldest of two boys. LeRoy had the physical ability and potential to become a football phenomenon. His parents favored him over his younger brother Elroy who was the complete opposite of LeRoy. Physically LeRoy was bigger than most of his peers and his athletic capabilities led him to be selected as an all-state linebacker during his senior year of high school. When LeRoy was 16 years old he began drinking almost a six- pack of beer a day, and by the time he turned 17 he began smoking. Even though LeRoy knew that drinking and smoking would get him kicked off the team he still continued this negative behavior. LeRoy wasn’t interested in studying just playing sports, drinking, smoking, and partying. Luckily LeRoy received a football scholarship and was able to attend college. He continued to excel in football but his bad habits continued and therefore his grades began to suffer. When LeRoy’s scholarship eligibility was used up he dropped out of college. He then married a college sophomore named Rachel who became pregnant and dropped out of college as well. Without finishing college LeRoy could only get jobs based on his skills and began job hopping. LeRoy continued his destructive behavior of drinking, smoking, and partying with his co-workers which led him now to become a poor husband. Leroy had now fathered three children with his wife and instead of making a...
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...never had to. Mrs. Siegel could not understand that Shauna's way of living was survival. Mrs. Siegel was raised in a different environment and in a different country where respect is always giving to your elders. So, for Mrs. Siegel to have a step daughter as disrespectful and ungrateful even when she did try to make her a civilized person became difficult, and she acted as a child when dealing with Shauna. Shauna had misplaced feelings that went unrecognized, and where not discussed in the Seigel household. She dealt with an alcoholic mother, a unemotional father, and a strict step mother who was her only mother figure at 17. Diagram a genogram and ecomap of this client. Using the accepted symbols, indicate the relationship between family members. Explain how you would use this data in assessment and intervention activities. Ecomap and Genogram can be used to assess the family by: Identifying who clearly exist in the family Identifying medical and past behavioral history Formulate a hypotheses about the family functioning Help the family participate in family therapy together How relationships are established Help identify the problems within the family Based on your current knowledge of the client, what would you suspect for projected ego functioning. The sense of reality of the world and of the self is the most projected ego functioning within the Siegel family. Shauna has accepted her role within the family and has accepted that she will not be able to fulfill her dads...
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...Analysis of a Case Study Community Health Nursing - NUR 311 November 01, 2015 Abstract This paper examines the role of a home care nurse in the case of a patient who is non-compliant with care and lacks knowledge about his medical condition. Nurses have numerous legal, professional and ethical duties. The three main duties are to respect all patients’ confidentiality and autonomy and to recognize duty of care owed to all patients. This paper will explore the ethical dilemma involved with a patient unwillingness to comply and the nurse’s duty to respect the patient’s wishes. Further discussion will give insight into the nurse’s legal responsibilities and elaborate on the principle of beneficence, health concepts, autonomy vs. paternalism, patient teaching, family as caregiver, Eco mapping, and therapeutic nursing interventions. Analysis of a Case Study Situation Overview The article, “The Patient Who Fell Through The Cracks,” described Mr. H as a 65 years old, morbidly obese man diagnosed with CHF, PVD, bilateral venous stasis ulcers, and HTN. He lived at home with his diabetic wife and mentally-challenged adult son. The environment in which they resided was unhealthy, possibly due to self-care deficit and lack of knowledge about health and wellness. Mr. H. lacked the support system that he needed to care for himself. Due to Mr. H’s inability to comprehend and self-care deficit immediate intervention had to be initiated by the nurse which involved providing wound...
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...which regards the process of living, or the relational system through which people live, as the subject matter of our observations, descriptions and research (TUT 101, PYC 4808: p 5). In the following discussion we are going to consider and discuss a given case study from first and second order cybernetics by applying first and second order cybernetic principles. We explore what the individual perspectives of the family members may be and the vantage point of the family’s position in the family’s life cycle. We are also going to construe a three-generational genogram of the given family system as well as an ecological map of the family in context. 1. A Three- Generational Genogram of the Bird family 2. An Ecological Map (ecomap) of the Bird Family in Context 3(a) The story as seen from the perspective of each of... . The story as probably seen from the perspective of each...
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... ultimately affected his grades (Zastow & Kirst-Ashman, 2010). He married his high school sweetheart and had three children, and due to his alcoholism, he became abusive and his wife left him, taking the children with her (Zastow & Kirst-Ashman, 2010). He had another child with an unknown woman and eventually remarried having two more children (Zastow & Kirst-Ashman, 2010). He never gave up his addictions and his second wife left him, and his work relationships faulted as well (Zastow & Kirst-Ashman, 2010). Due to his drinking and smoking, his health took a turn for the worst, and he was diagnosed with cirrhosis and emphysema, and is currently living in a long term care facility (Zastow & Kirst-Ashman, 2010). Based on the ecomap, I would say the strongest influences on his behavior would relate directly to alcohol and smoking. From early on alcohol was present through his educational years and through his failed interpersonal relationships (Zastow & Kirst-Ashman, 2010). His income from his work went on drinking and smoking and he owed child support (Zastow & Kirst- Ashman, 2010). While he was drinking and in his marriages, he would become violent while intoxicated, and later on in life, due to his alcohol addiction and smoking, his health deteriorated (Zastow & Kirst-Ashman, 2010). LeRoy Karas is transitioning from middle adulthood to late adulthood. According to Levinson, middle adulthood (age 40 to age 65) is the era in which people tend to have...
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...Introduction and Case Study Creswell (2002) defines the interview as a method of qualitative research that seeks to describe central themes and meanings of various human phenomena and experience. A web dictionary defines the word “generative” as having the ability to originate, produce, or procreate. This implies that a generative family is a family which is able to multiply by producing new offspring. A family is a system or unit which is defined as a group of individuals who are bound by strong emotional ties, a sense of belonging, and a passion for being involved in one another’s lives (Wright, Watson & Bell, 1996). The family visited was a nuclear family. The term nuclear family was developed in the western world to distinguish the family group consisting of a father and mother, and their children, from what is known as an extended family (Wright & Leahey, 2005). Nuclear families can be any size, as long as the family can support itself and there are only the parents and children. The purpose of the interview presented in this paper was to discover and describe the experience of pregnancy by a married woman who is in her late twenties. The paper presents the findings observed in the interview and ends with a series of conclusions and personal reflections on the interview method. The confidentiality of the pregnant lady’s name and that of any member of her family will be respected throughout the paper. This essay is an example of a student's work Disclaimer This...
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...spiritual beliefs and attitudes in the therapeutic process and discharge planning (Hodge, 2005). Hodge asserts that this form of assessment allows the healthcare professional to explore a client’s “spiritual strengths that might be used to ameliorate problems or cope with difficulties” (Hodge, 2005, para. 1). The five qualitative assessment tools offered by Hodge (2005) provide a detailed description and comparison of each tool, and its usefulness, strengths, and weaknesses. One of the assessment methods, spiritual histories, allows the healthcare profession to explore the client’s spirituality through verbal interaction with the client (Hodge, 2005). The remaining four assessments, spiritual lifemaps, spiritual genograms, spiritual ecomaps, and spiritual ecograms require more client participation and active...
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...TABLE OF CONTENT CONTENTS | PAGES | 1 Question 1: Three-generational genogram | 2 | 2.Question 2: Ecomap | 4 | 3. Question 3: a) Story as seen from perspective of each family members | 6 | b) The story from the vantage point of the family position in the family life cycle | 7 | 4. Question 4: First-order cybernetic description | 9 | 5. Question 5: Second-order cybernetic description | 12 | 6. Reference | 15 | Ecosystemic Assignment no: 3 PYC4808 UNIQUE NO: 536936 QUESTION 1 Three-generational genogram of the Bird family Mavis’ stepmom Mavis’ stepmom John’s mom John’s mom Family A (John’s family) Family B(Mavis’s family) Mavis’s father Mavis’s father Mavis’s mom Mavis’s mom ? ? John’s father John’s father Alex Alex ? ? B.F’ Mom B.F’ Mom S S B2 B2 Alexandra (John' stepbrother Alexandra (John' stepbrother John (45yrs) John (45yrs) B3 B3 B.F B.F Mavis (42) Mavis (42) Howard (50yrs) Howard (50yrs) Weak relationship April (15yrs) April (15yrs) KEY : Male: Female: Marriage: Divorce: Relationship abuse: Moved to: Foster home: S: Mavis’s sister B1: Mavis’s brother number 1 B2: Mavis’s brother number 2 B.F: Mavis’s best friend Mavis’s deceased friend : B.F mom : Best friend’s mom Weak relationship: _ _ _ Affected: alcoholic: QUESTION 2 Ecomap of the Bird family John’s dad John’s dad Mavis’s brother Mavis’s brother Mavis’s dad Mavis’s dad Mavis’s stepmom Mavis’s stepmom ...
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