Susan's Case Study

In this assignment, I had the opportunity to select one family system from a menu of choices and therefore, I chose Susan’s family. This assignment will provide an opportunity to demonstrate my ability to apply knowledge to understand Susan’s environment, to collect, organize and interpret Susan’s date, and to assess Susan’s strengths and limitations. The index person is Susan and the circumstances which brought her into services was she suffers from chronic headaches and is hoping that counseling will help her improve her well-being. She first sought help for headaches in 1971, but she is continuously getting headaches more often and came in to get help again because she does not want to live like this anymore.

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Susan’s parents, Andrew Sr. and Katherine are a married couple who have five children; Ellen who was born in 1942, Sarah who was born 1948 and died in 1952 at the age of four, Andrew Jr. who was born 1946, Sharon who was born in 1951, Susan who was born in 1953, and Roger who was born in 1958. Andrew Jr. is married and has two daughters. Sharon is in her second marriage after her first ended in divorce. Sharon has one daughter from each marriage. Andrew’s parents had five children and Katherine’s parent had two children. When Susan began living with her boyfriend it influenced her parents’ decision to disown her. However, Sharon and her husband were arrested for drug dealing, however her parents bailed her out of jail. Therefore, there is a hypotheses that Sharon and Susan do not get along because of the indication that their parents disowned Susan. It is indicated that when Sharon and Susan were younger they played complementary roles. For example, Susan was the “good” child while Sharon became the “loser”. As a result, is was during those years that Katherine described Susan as her “one joy” in the midst of everything else that was going wrong. It is indicated that a hypotheses is that there may be some tension between the two sisters because Susan was the favorite child and now it appears that Sharon is the favorite child. Also, Susan’s parents were both raised by someone else in

It is indicated that two-person system is unstable because it tolerates little tension before involving a third person. A triangle can contain much more tension without involving another person because the tension can shift around three relationships. Therefore, how it applies to my selected family system is it is indicated that when Sharon and Susan were younger they played complementary roles. For example, Susan was the “good” child while Sharon became the “loser”. As a result, is was during those years that Katherine described Susan as her “one joy” in the midst of everything else that was going wrong. Therefore, there is indication that Susan was the favorite child. However, that all changed when Susan began living with her boyfriend because it influenced her parents’ decision to disown her. However, Sharon and her husband were arrested for drug dealing, however her parents bailed her out of jail. Therefore, there is a hypotheses that Sharon and Susan did not get along growing up because of the indication of Susan being the favorite child growing up. As a result the sisters do not get along now because their roles have changed. There is indication that parents but specially the mother has caused the tension between the sisters because of picking the favorite child in the