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Section 1: Family System and the Environment Courtney’s family system is accompanied by her boyfriend, Mitchell, his father, Steve and his grandmother, Linda. Mitchell is twenty years old and works a full time job as a department head of sporting goods at Farm & Home Supply. Mitchell and Courtney live with his dad and his grandmother because they are not capable of living on their own also, Mitchell and Courtney financially cannot afford a place of their own to live. Steve and Linda suffer from a prescription drug addiction. Linda’s daughter and Steve’s sister recently passed away by an overdose on prescription drugs, but they still continue to abuse the prescriptions. Mitchell and Courtney have come home numerous times to find Linda incapacitated in her chair while drooling and speaking of things that do not exist nor make sense. Courtney has explained her experiences about Linda trapping her when nobody is in the room and constantly degrading her, Courtney says that she feels as if she is walking on eggshells. Courtney explains that Linda comes into her room and …show more content…

One of her strengths is that she is currently attending MacMurray College to obtain a degree in Social Work and Psychology, but she is stressed because she is not able to study and get her assignments done because of her home environment. Courtney also mentioned that her best friend just passed away from Osteosarcoma and she is coping with that. She states that the adaption to her being gone is not an easy transition and her home life is only making it more challenging because there is always negative energy towards her in the home. Courtney said that she would rather stay later at work or in the school library. This is because she is afraid of the transactions that she may encounter with Linda could be offensive or belligerent criticism. Transaction is another word for communications with a person in the

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