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Family Therapy Case Study

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initially, the counselor would observe how the family organizes around the task, their level of engagement and enjoyment, how decisions are made, their patterns of communication, structural issues (such as coalitions, enmeshment, disengagement, etc.). The counselor would also observe the family dynamics of who dominates, who is left out, as well as if there is an emerging leader (Lowenstein and Sprunk, 2010). (Diamond and Diamond, 2002) The counselor would also identify problems which damaged the trust among Williams family members. The counselor would also get agreement from the adolescent and parents to openly and non-defensively discuss these issues (Diamond and Diamond, 2002). According to Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (2004), family work can be a strong and continuation theme for many treatment approaches, but family therapy is not used to its greatest capacity in addiction. A primary challenge remains the broadening of the addiction treatment focus from the …show more content…

The counselor would understand family’s perception over Asperger’s Syndrome, will educate and guide the family to additional educational resources in the community. The counselor would also teach Jeff and Sandy that effective parenting with Asperger’s teens requires frequent interactions. Parents of Asperger's syndrome children go through unique stressors like affecting family life, causing stress directly (poor social interactions) and indirectly (creates financial burden) (Sofronoff and Farbotko, 2002). Since Asperger's syndrome has only been recognized over a decade, most parents still find difficult to receive the support they need from the community as well as school system. Situations involving social contact with outside world can result in high levels of stress for the parents, especially mothers (Sofronoff and Farbotko,

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The Structural Family Therapy Model, stated by Minuchin, “explains how families maintain problematic behaviors…” along with what is written by Minuchin and Fishman, “…which leads to symptom reduction because a new structure develops in the family…” (as cited in Reiter, 2016, p. 25). This model brings attention to how the behaviors and individual roles of family members changed due issue(s) that presents itself within the family structure. The issue of L.E.’s substance use is the cause in the change of roles as the client continues her substance use. As L.E. is the mother of B.V., and B.V. is her adult daughter, but is also a mother to her son; hostility between the two, because of the presenting issue. The relationship between L.E., and her

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