The Family Systems Theory Of The Walls Family

The family that I am meeting is the Walls family; they are Rex the father, Rose the mother, Lori the oldest daughter, Jeannette, Brian the only boy, and then baby Maureen. The mother and father don’t seem to have any high levels of education, but seem to know more than they let onto. The children are extremely bright. The children have been in and out of school, but are levels above children their own age. Their father is from Welch, West Virginia his mother Erma and her husband also Rex’s brother Stanley lives in Welch with the grandparents. They are on the deeper lower end of poverty and the father has had job after job but does not seem to ever settle down in one he just continues to move from one after another. The mother had a job working

Each person in the family starts to develop a job or rule that that play in the family that others can’t really fill. For example Jeannette and Brain’s relationship with each other are almost stronger than anyone in the family. The role that Brain plays is the one that is extremely quiet unless with his family and even though he is a younger sibling he sees it as his goal to protect Jeannette, even if it evolves fighting older bigger girls but if it’s for his family he will do it. Lori is always lost in a book but he is like the mother of the family even though their real mother is around. Their father is bright man that the kids get to see from time to time but then there alcoholic father appears and that’s when problems arise. When it comes to functioning at younger ages they were almost completely dependent on their parents like all kids are, as they started to reach teenage they started to rely less on their parents and more on each other. They started to get their own jobs, when they needed resources they would rather depend on each other or themselves. The communication was free for the kids if they had a question or a problem they would voice their concerns but the only time they didn’t was when they saw that their father was drinking or was drunk. They left the

The children would be overjoyed to work with their parents to make them better and have them live with them still. Some ethical dilemmas would be not to become too involved but you have to so that the family can trust you into helping them. You almost have to force the hand of the parents which is unethical you are not meant to force someone into getting help but if they don’t improve they are endangering the lives of their children. Another problem is getting the family to make changes again the children are willing to make those changes but the father is another problem. He has been through the whole cycle of change with drinking, he has stopped but then he has gone back and relapsed and it looks like every time he has relapsed he has gone deeper into drinking. Other challenges would be to find ways to get the family to actually attempt the intervention techniques that they would learn through the therapy or with working with the family. Another challenge would be finding a way to help the family pay for all this; it might be an ethical dilemma if wanting to provide these services, but not wanting to show them greater care than any other