Evolutionary: The Belcher’s have never been a good-looking family, and have no appealing physical attributes to sustain romantic relationships. Because of this unfortunate curse of unattractiveness, the Belcher family has evolved to be overly sexualized so that they are able to find a mate. As a result, Tina is very sexual towards all males she encounters, and often resorts to writing fan-fiction about her sexual fantasies. Psychodynamic: Living above a restaurant that is your only source of income can pose many safety risks such as fires and animal infestation. When Tina was 5 years old, the restaurant caught fire, directly igniting the apartment in which the Belcher family resides. This fire destroyed most of their belongings and the …show more content…
Tina tends to befriend those in her life who possess none of the same traits as her. She does this to not only help better the other person by constantly demonstrating her innate kindness, but to observe the bad within others in an attempt to understand the world around her. Biological: Most members of the Belcher family have severe mental complications. Tina’s aunt, Gayle, has Paranoia as well as slight Schizophrenia. Gayle spends most of her time with her many cats that she converses with. Furthermore, Gayle can be found sleeping under a tent made of tinfoil in her apartment due to her belief in aliens. Cleary, Tina’s strange mannerisms, such as her strange sexual fantasies and inability to express emotions, can be explained by her family history of mental illness. Behavioral: As a child, Tina was very troubled. She would often lie, and create trouble around the restaurant. Tina was punished so severely for her behavior that she is unable to lie, and when she is forced to lie to cover up her actions, she begins hyperventilating, suffers prolonged groaning, and feels such extreme guilt that she punishes
In this paper, a scenario of the Brice family from the book “The Family Crucible” will be described in detail. The Family Development Theory and the Family System Theory will be analyzed to understand the Brice’s family scenario. Also, the two theories will be compared to discover which theory is more productive when analyzing this family’s scenario. Finally, the importance of culture in family issues will be discuss as well as how it helps the development of the family and how it broader its perspective in global issues.
Alison Bechdel's graphic memoir, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, documents the author's discovery of her own and her father's homosexuality. The book touches upon many themes, including, but not limited to, the following: sexual orientation, family relationships, and suicide. Unlike most autobiographical works, Bechdel uses the comics graphic medium to tell her story. By close-reading or carefully analyzing pages fourteen through seventeen in Fun Home one can get a better understanding of how a Bechdel employs words and graphic devices to render specific events. One can also see how the specific content of the pages thematically connects to the book as a whole. As we will see, this portion of the book echoes the strained relationship between Bruce Bechdel and his family and his attempts to disguise his homosexuality by creating the image of an ideal family, themes which are prevalent throughout the rest of the nook.
She was cruelly treated, spit at, beaten, and shunned on a daily basis. Her parents were sympathetic to her dilemma and finally forced her to see a psychiatrist. She was placed on medication that made her very sleepy. The psychiatrist said that “kids will be kids and that possibly she was looking for attention from her parents.” In eighth grade, a group of popular students followed her to the parking lot after school on a winter’s afternoon, knocked her to the ground, and shoved fistfuls of snow down her throat, laughing as they watched her struggle to breathe.
It is not until her unfortunate murder that Angela's imprisonment gets unraveled. Her distorted emotions are revealed as this relatively unknown young woman's death is investigated. Journalists trample inside Ms. Bari's life without any regards to her in an attempt to solve this murder mystery (17). Angela's body was discovered by the porter of her apartment who is 'astonished that there should be so little blood on the floor'; when he discovers that she is lying on the ground dead after being stabbed several times (18). This is the first clue that Angela is cornered in her own little world. She has little blood, which is regarded as the seat of emotions, and her lack of such nourishment suggests that perhaps she was never nurtured. Furthermore, her cause of death, internal hemorrhage, suggests that those feelings imbedded within her were lost rapidly and uncontrollably (19). The obscure grasp Angela has of her emotions is just one facet of her imprisonment.
Based on Vera’s presentation, several factors seem to be relevant to her case. Vera’s reports indicate that she is experiencing faulty thoughts centered around a distortion of her responsibility to protect her mother, as evident by her compulsion to complete time-consuming and distressing rituals to ensure her safety. She also appears
She has a very strong belief this and Thanks God that he didn’t make her like any of those people below her. Even goes as far as debating lives if God would have a given her a choice between any of the people she thinks she is better than. A trip to the doctor’s office for her husband’s ulcer brings a new “revelation” for Mrs. Turpin. While observing the people in the waiting room, she analyzes them and gives them titles in the groups below her. White- trash, ugly and so on. There is one girl in the room though who seems to really have something against Mrs. Turpin. Every comment she makes seems to upset the young girl and make her agitation to rise. It disturbs and also confuses her because she can’t understand why the girl who doesn’t even know her would want to ac so rudely towards such a kind a giving woman such as her. “All at once the ugly girl turned her lips inside out again. Her eyes fixed like two drills on Mrs. Turpin. This time there was no mistaking that there was something urgent behind them.” Continuing on in conversation with the white- trash an outburst of thanking the lord aloud causes the young lady to suddenly hurl the book she was reading at Mrs. Turpin and jumping across the table and attempting to choke her. The nurse and doctor try to contain the young girl while slowly giving her a shot in the arm to calm her insanity down.
Besides telling her child that she hated him and wished him dead Dave’s mother put him through tremendous physical pain and abuse. From a young child till the fifth grade Dave Pelzer had been made to sleep away from the family in the basement in a small army cot. He was starved for days and days on end. His mother longed for any time to severely beat him, it made her day, she would think of morbid things all day to do to him when he got home from school. Among many other things, Dave Pelzer was; stabbed, made to drink ammonia, bleach, and dishwashing detergent, made to sit in a bathroom for hours with many chemicals creating a small gas chamber, put in freezing cold water for hours with just his nose sticking out of the tub, burnt on an open fire on the stove, and made to eat his little brother’s dirty diaper. These were only some of the torturous things his mother could think of to do to her little boy.
...nd personal story that shows the pitiful characters of Arpi and Connie that are victims of bullying at school. Then she concludes the story with a “perhasping” image of Connie and her mother at 7-Eleven transporting the readers from a classroom setting of kids bullied in front of an absentminded teacher to a sad picture in front of a store window. Considering the future, Murphy encourages the reader to evaluate their stand on cruelty and to make that difference not treat one another different. Murphy through rhetorical and tonal elements of pathos, logos, and diction expresses that cruelty in any form is wrong no matter how one tries to justify it. Doing bad for good is never right.
One pages 18 and 19, the reader gets a sense of Tina’s witty nature as she states “I’m an alien (but my parents are Indian)” in response to the question, “What are you, really” (Kashyap 17). Her answer also signifies that part of Tina’s sense of individuality stems from her feeling of being an outsider. This continues on as Tina explains how she herself does not belong to any of the cliques that make up her divided school, rather, her “clique” is her friendship with Alex. Her sense of individual at this time is defined by the friendship, as they are “different and the same,” ergo Tina defines her individuality with another individual (Kashyap 35). However, once Alex terminates their friendship, Tina struggles with keeping her identity now that a large component of it is no longer intact. This is not the end of her nature, however, as Tina continually identifies herself with who she is close to throughout the story (after Alex, Su Ming, eventually Hollis, and of course, Neil), which in turn leads to a broken identity as she sits alone on her bench. However, after the conflict with Neil has concluded and she has given herself time to self reflect, as well as begin to make amends with Alex, we see Tina make development on her identity, as for the first time, she allows herself to exist with her friends without containing herself to
As a social worker it is often complex to determine which theory to employ in practice, each client will warrant for an in-debt assessment of the presenting problem and goals the client desires to achieve. This paper will explore one family intervention model that can be applied to the Taylor family. The two theories analyzed are Cognitive Behavioral Family Theory, (CBFT) and Structural Family Theory (SFT); both theories can be utilized when assisting individuals or families. The social worker will focus on the Cognitive Behavioral Family Therapy model when applying treatment and interventions to the Taylor family case.
Societal emotional processes are an expanded view of the family projection process, but with society as the influence on the family. Bowenian therapists view social expectations, sexism, class prejudice, racism, ethnic discrimination and gender roles as contributors to pressures certain families have to contend with; the coping strategies employed from past generations are transmitted down to the children in the same way (Nichols, 2013). These strategies can be either adaptive or maladaptive to the emotional well-being of the family. Bowen believed, however, that families who were healthier in differentiation were better adjusted to deal with these factors (Nichols, 2013). The application to the family in the case study presented is that Brittany is described as a tomboy, going against societal expectations. She apparently has the ability to pursue things that are of interest to her, or she is overcompensating for her father because she feels a lack of her mother’s attention and possibly senses disdain for Ronnie participating with the grandmother-in other words, Britney may be attempting to act as the “replacement son” for Dad’s affections; more
kindness of strangers, but all of them have abused and abandoned her. In the end, even her
Kaakinen, Gedaly-Duff, Coehlo & Hanson, (2010) report family is the biggest resource for managing care of individuals with chronic illness; family members are the main caregivers and provide necessary continuity of care. Therefore, it is important for health care providers to develop models of care based on an understanding what families are going through (Eggenberger, Meiers, Krumwiede, Bliesmer, & Earle, 2011). The family I chose to interview is in the middle of a transition in family dynamics. I used the family as a system approach as well as a structure-function theoretical framework to the effects of the changes in dynamic function. Additionally, the combinations of genogram, ecomap, adaptations of the Friedman Family Assessment model as well as Wright & Leahey’s 15 minute family interview were utilized.
Deborah started feeling worse as it was happening more often than before. She couldn’t believe that she was getting bullied by her own supervisor. She let the time pass and thought that her supervisor might be having a bad day. The day turn into days and then into weeks. The bullying started from a simple look from her supervisor and started escalating from that point on. Deborah at first though the reason for her supervisor being upset with her was the lack of not being fast
...r debts were based on deception, and she is too scared to tell her husband anything, adding another lie to the web she has entangled herself into. A tragic character to the end, she even has to lie to get the arsenic, saying she has to kill rats but in all reality she wanted to kill herself.