Analysis Of An Interviewee's Interaction With Families, Small Groups

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This interview is carried out to learn more about the interviewee’s interaction with families, small groups, and the community. The students first asked the interviewee about his definition for each of the categories, then explored the reciprocal relationships between the interviewee and these systems. The interviewee talked about his family values and how he has applied these values when working with groups, and the interviewee also talked about how he and small groups and the community he lives in learns from one another, in terms of values, beliefs, norms, and thanks to these reciprocal relationships, he felt that he was able to develop and became more mature. The interactions between the interviewee and these systems reflect the person-in-environment theory, in which the individual and the environment affect one another, and the continuity and change of the Life Course theory of families, in which families need to change to adapt or maintain its homeostasis in face of external events. First of all, the student wants to explore the give and receive relationship between an individual and the environment, such as his small groups and his community. The questions that reflect …show more content…

Continuity and change theory stated that families are influenced by external events, and they will either change to adapt or maintain homeostasis in response to those events (Schriver, 2015). Due to his father’s death, the interviewee became the head of the family and took on the responsibility of taking care of other family members. He also started working more hours to support himself financially. The interviewee had said that it was a tough time during the time when his father passed away. These are some big changes that the interviewee and his family had to deal with in the face of this event, and they are in the progress of adapting and creating the new