Case Study Analysis: Case Analysis Of Kelly's Family

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Analysis on Kelly’s Family Kelly’s parent working hard to make-end meet, it may implied that Kelly is in poverty family. While the poverty family may makes impact on parent and children, like hardship and stress (McCleeland, 2000). In family stress Model, it stated that a family suffered economic hardship may lead to parent distresses and it lead to hostile-ineffective parenting , and finally it will make his or her child has adjustment like emotional and behavioral problems and impaired competence. (Conger &Conger, 2008) With the application on the case study, the Kelly’s family is poor and we can assume that Kelly’s parent suffer stress on making money to support the family, therefore it could lead to high expectation on Kelly to take care her sibling, and she is used to her parent’s behavior and is careful not to do anything wrong in front of him, it could be implied Kelly’s family is under authoritarian parenting style (Baumrind, 1991). The authoritarian parenting style is a combine with high control with low warmth; therefore it could have a behavioral adjustment on Kelly, like...

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