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A 6 page overview of a family as an interrelated series of components. Presenting a fictional case study, this paper provides a genogram of the major relationships and an analysis of the family unit under Minuchin’s theory of the structured family. Bibliography lists 5 sources
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6 pages (~225 words per page)
File: AM2_PPgenogr.rtf
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The nuclear family comprises one of the most basic units of social interaction. This interaction, however, is not always a healthy interaction. Such as the case
in situations of family violence. Domestic violence is one of the most disturbing social issues of our time. Indeed, it is one of the more unfortunate aspects of
our increasingly complex urban society. Regardless of the reasons, however, domestic violence is an inexcusable situation. Most often the targets of domestic violence are women and children.
The purpose of this paper is to explore a family in which such violence occurs, to present a genogram of that family, to describe the system issues which are at
play, explain these interactions and issues under Salvador Minuchins theory of the structured family (first formulated in the 1960s), and formulate an approach for dealing with this family from a
therapeutic approach. Minuchins theory is instructive in a number of regards. Clements (1982, 325) reports:
"The family structure model conceives of the family as an open social system in transformation, characterized by the organization of hierarchical positions
and recurring transaction patterns between and among these positions". The family which will be explored
in this paper is the Suarez family. The Suarez family consists of a single mother and four children, three boys and one girls. The mother is twenty-four years
of age and the children range in age from nine to nine months. The family has been in the assessment/intervention program for two years. They have suffered from
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