...Personally, I feel there are benefits of why fidelity should be out in the open in couple’s therapy. I have always heard “what you don’t know can’t hurt you” and I have felt like there are some things, like infidelity that no matter how painful, should be known. I feel, not knowing about the infidelity it would be hard for a couple in crisis to move forward. Moreover, a partner may feel like the other is distracted, but, they are cheating, so how can a couple resolve issues if there is no accountability or honesty for one’s actions? In contrast, I can see that knowing about infidelity could cause a lot of pain and hurt to be morally honest with one’s partner. Per Butler, Rodriguez, & Feinauer, (2010) some exceptions for a counselor to consider are: (a) one partner is suffering from terminal illness; (b) divorce papers have been filed; (c) if there is possibility for physical abuse; (d) one of the partners is suffering from a serious mental health disorder that could affect the overall ability to facilitate healing: or (e) many years have passed since the partner was unfaithful and the reasons why they have chosen couples therapy is unrelated to the previous infidelity. Additionally, counselors may need to judge the risk of harm to the other partner and whether it is relevant to the couple’s future (Butler, Rodriguez, & Feinauer, 2010)....
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...Circumplex Model of Marriage and Family Therapy Paper Dindy Williams BSHS/312 APRIL 4, 2011 Sharla Hansen Circumplex Model of Marriage and Family Therapy Paper The Circumplex Model of Marriage and Family Systems was developed in an attempt to bridge the gap between research, theory and practice. The model, together with the assessment tools developed to use with it, are specially designed to assess the functionality of families and develop a treatment plan. The hypothesis of the Circumplex Model is that balanced couple and family systems tend to function better than unbalanced systems. Cohesion, flexibility, and communication are the three dimensions of the Circumplex model. These dimensions were the ones most commonly used out of a cluster of over 50 different concepts describing marital and family structure. A variety of other family models independently focused on similar variables relating to cohesion, flexibility, and communication. These models have been developed in the past 25 years by theorists using a family systems perspective. The theorists concluded that these dimensions were critical to treating families. “Family cohesion is defined as the emotional bonding that family members have towards one another” (Olsen, D. H., 2000, May). Emotional bonding, boundaries, coalitions, time space, friends, decision making, interests, and recreation are some of the concepts used to measure the degree of cohesion within the Circumplex Model. The focus of cohesion is how...
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...Sexuality Paper: Marriage Infidelity Abstract This paper will cover the topic of marital infidelity. In recent years divorce has gone over 50% and Christian divorce has grown closer to 57%. Why are there so many couples willing to throw in the towel? Adultery is the cause for many, certainly not all, divorces that occur in our country. There are many reasons why a spouse will choose to stray from the marriage, as well as many reasons for that the marriage should be worked on and saved. God has blessed us with marriage. God wanted us to have a “helper,” someone who could walk through this world with us. God wanted us to have somebody who we could share our joys with and somebody who could keep us focused on His purpose for our lives. Proverbs 6:32- Whoever commits adultery with a women lacks understanding, he who does so destroys his own soul. In the culture of current society the idea of marriages seems to be slipping into being a thing of the past. Monogamy within a marriage seems to losing ground even faster than the idea of marriage. This paper will be outlining the rise of infidelity and the role that society has had in not just looking the other way, but oftentimes praising the act as “human nature.” Is it possible to bring marriage back to its roots, and return the marital bed to one of loyalty, respect, and spiritual oneness? As Carder states, “What is most needed upon the revelation of an affair is compassion and understanding, not condemnation. That the...
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...Head Office 30 Grosvenor Street, Neutral Bay, NSW 2089 Ph: 02 9904 5600 Fax: 02 9904 5611 Coming to grips with family systems theory in a collaborative, learning environment. info@thefsi.com.au http://www.thefsi.com.au Bowen Family Systems Theory and Practice: Illustration and Critique By Jenny Brown This paper will give an overview of Murray Bowen’s theory of family systems. It will describe the model’s development and outline its core clinical components. The practice of therapy will be described as well as recent developments within the model. Some key criticisms will be raised, followed by a case example which highlights the therapeutic focus of Bowen’s approach. This is the author’s version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Australian Academic Press for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) Vol.20 No.2 1999 pp 94-103). Introduction Murray Bowen's family systems theory (shortened to 'Bowen theory' from 1974) was one of the first comprehensive theories of family systems functioning (Bowen, 1966, 1978, Kerr and Bowen, 1988). While it has received sporadic attention in Australia and New Zealand, it continues to be a central influence in the practice of family therapy in North America. It is possible that some local family therapists have been influenced by many of Bowen's ideas without the connection being articulated. For example, the writing of Guerin...
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...* * * * * * * * * Case Study: Steve and Cindy * * PACO 603 Premarital and Marital Counseling * * December 11, 2013 * Case Study: Steve and Cindy * When entering into marital counseling, a couple is often seeking help to resolve differences or problems either one or both are struggling to overcome. Steve and Cindy have recently begun this journey by seeking help with their marriage from a pastoral counselor at their church who uses Olson’s PREPARE/ENRICH program (2009). They have both taken the program’s online tests, which cover a multitude of key areas such as the couple’s background, relationship dynamics, and personalities. This paper addresses three main areas including the identification of the couple’s key strengths and weaknesses, a discussion of potential issues with the couple’s personality, and the development of a plan to counsel and support them through church ministry. * Key Areas Identified * Hawkins (1991.p.23) describes the concept of intimacy as “oneness with healthy separateness”. When reviewing the results of Olson’s PREPARE/ENRICH report (2009), it becomes evident that many areas of strength and weakness exist in the couple’s relationship. The answers provided under idealistic distortion indicate that both Steve and Cindy realize that there are problems in the marriage needing to be addressed but Steve is minimizing the severity of the problem. Cindy’s results state that she is...
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...Healing Hospital Healing: adjective tending to cure or restore to health (Merriam-Webster. 2015). When a person hears the word healing they might only associate the word with physical healing. However, when a Nurse hears the word healing they consider not only the physical person, but their spiritual and emotional wellbeing. Until recent years the Medical community has focused on healing the body and neglected other aspects of a person’s health and wellbeing. Thanks to organizations like Healthy People 2010 a better understanding has occurred, in which now the importance of treating the person as a whole is understood. Efforts to make changes in which a patient is treated are in full effect thanks to this better understanding. However, with all these changes coming to the forefront all at once it has become challenging for the Medical Community. The Purpose of this paper is to illustrate the components of a Healing Hospital and the challenges that come along with implementing those components. Supporting the Physical as well as Emotional Wellbeing Practitioners main focus when treating a patient is to acquire a diagnosis, and then treat or cure that diagnosis then send the patient home. This is all well and good however, they could be potentially leaving out treating the emotional wellbeing of a person. Which could lead to the patient recovering but later on returning for medical attention because either the issue has returned or become worse. For example, a young...
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...of 18 Jason Cruise Liberty University Online Psych 210-D04 LUO Abstract In the United States, divorced couples have become the norm of a culture so diverse and self-absorbed. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that approximately 46% of all marriages end in divorce. As a result, children often suffer irreparable damage emotionally, socially, and academically. This paper seeks to examine the vast biosocial, psychosocial, and cognitive aspects related to divorced parents and the stressors and consequences there within. In addition, many children are drastically affected by the three periods that occur during a divorce. The results incur that, although sometimes the situation improves, most children often experience lower academic success, as well as decreases in their biosocial, psychosocial, and cognitive development. The Impact of Divorce on Children under the Age of 18 Overview of Divorce Divorce is a common reality in every country and culture throughout the world. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that approximately 46% of all U.S. marriages end in divorce (Marriage and Divorce, 2013). Therefore, researchers have placed a lot of focus on divorce over other methods of terminating a cohabiting relationship (Berger, 2011). In addition, Berger (2011) says, “Divorce occurs because at least one half of a couple believes that he or she would be happier not married” (p. 619). Thus, researchers question why divorce has become...
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...Outline Worksheet for Monroe’s Motivated Sequence: Questions of Policy/Action Title: Legalizing Gay Marriages Speaker: Tyrel Brown Specific Purpose: The specific purpose of this speech is to educate people about marriages and persuade people to help in the fight towards legalizing people of the same sex to be married and not put on contract. I. Attention A. Attention getter: FCKH8 Video Clip B. Establishment of Ethos: I am an expert at this because I have studied both opinions on this situation and referred to different people about their view on this topic. C. Central Idea: The central idea of this speech is to open the listeners eyes to ground rules set up from the beginning that states that separation needs to be made between religion and government, so the two shall never meld to become a theocracy. With the issue of gay marriage, lines get blurred and religion rears its head to influence a government’s decision of who shall be married and who will be refused. (Transition) What is marriage? Marriage is a social union or legal contract between a man and a woman that creates kinship which is an institution in which interpersonal relationships, usually intimate and sexual, is acknowledged in a variety of ways, depending on the culture or subculture in which it is found. Basically marriage is a statement to the world that this is the man/woman that he/she has decided to have sex with for the rest of his/her life. II....
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...review of literature and critical analysis of the information in an ethnographic, qualitative manner. Table of Contents TITLE …………………………………………………………………..…1 ABSTRACT ……………………………………………………….….…..2 Introduction ……………………………………….………………………4 Research on infidelity …...………………………………………..……….5 Social media as a source to increase cheating………………….………….6 Adult children of parental infidelity…………………………………….....6 Results of children with cheating parents …………………………………7 Assumptions and Limitations ………………………………………….…..9 Conclusion…………………………………………………………………11 Work cited …………………………………………………………………12 Infidelity A business owner has been married to his wife for only 25 years. This couple has 3 children. The couple appears to be happily married, and they have a nice home. A late Friday night after he leaves his company he decides to go to a bar with his cousin and leaves the wife to take care of his and his cousins kids. At the bar the man and his cousin go to the bar to order a beverage. Not after ordering his drink, a woman goes up to him. She asks the men if she can join them. The three of them seem to enjoy the evening. But after a few hours the cousin decides to leave. Leaving only the married man and the lady at the bar. The woman asks if he wants to go home with her. The man his marriage was not great but he has not had an argument with his wife for the day. In fact, she took care of the cousin’s kids without complaining. They have...
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...family is composed of persons joined together by bonds of marriage, blood, or adoption and residing in the same household (p.9). These are just some of the many definitions of family I have come across in my search. We are never given a chance to choose our family, however that is why knowing and learning the meaning of family is essential. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate and define what family is. I will explain my own familial experiences over the years, and how this definition is constantly changing. I will also share the perspectives of others on how they view family. Finally, I will share my definition of family, including the theoretical foundation I find most helpful to explain it. Various Perspectives on Family In recent weeks, I have had the opportunity to speak with my own family, coworkers, and friends about what family means to them. My children described family as people who share unconditional love and respect, and someone who you can be close to and share your feelings with no matter your mood. Most of my friends believe the word family describes those who you feel connected to emotionally, who do not necessarily need to be related by blood, but someone you trust and love. One coworker feels family means being there for you through...
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...Research Paper on “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini Introduction: The international best-selling novel, The Kite Runner was first published in 2003 by Riverhead Books, written by the Afghan-born American novelist and physician, Khaled Hosseini. He was born into a Shia family in Kabul, and later on in his life when the family moved to Paris because of his father’s occupation, Hosseini’s family was unable to return to Kabul due to the bloody Saur Revolution; hence they had to seek political asylum in the United States. Being as young as he was, roughly 11 years of age, the actions of his home country must have left an impression on him. It is such a great read because among many other themes such as betrayal, redemption, bullying, inhumanities of revolution, discrimination, loyalty, hypocrisy, horrors of rapes etc. the main focus of this story is of a man who is haunted by his past demons. We see in some of the opening lines of the novel, “I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975… That was a long time ago, but it’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.” These opening lines gets the ball rolling on what is to come and to be expected from the story, of possibly an aged man who is looking back at the past and justifying how it has made him the way that he is to date. The setting vividly takes place in the disorderly country of Kabul, Afghanistan...
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...SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT AND EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING OF UNWED MOTHERS IN SELECTED TOWNS IN BATANGAS PROVINCE A Thesis Presented to The Faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY JPLPC-Campus Malvar, Batangas In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree Bachelor of Science in Psychology By: ANDREW T. CLAUD RENIER A. EVANGELISTA October 2014 CHAPTER I THE PROBLEM Single mothers have a dual responsibility in their households. Compared to two-parent households, lone parents have not only reduced money but also half the adult time resources available. Single mothers manage many responsibilities including financial provision, housekeeping, and parenting. In addition, they lack a supportive spouse to turn to for counsel, cooperation, and comfort. The stress in the mother’s life and the way she deals with it also impacts her child. Current research suggests that professional help is sought for mental health reasons by single-parent mothers two to three times more often. Of all problems in domestic relations with which the social worker deals, that of the family unsanctioned by Church or State, unrecognized by the community, is probably the most difficult. Although we speak usually of the “unmarried mother” nevertheless the situation involves all the elements of a family group—mother, father, and child. Each of these has certain rights, the parents have certain obligations, and the relationship of the members of the group to the...
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...Terminally Ill Patients' and End of Life Care: A Multidisciplinary Concept Analysis Jennifer Thompson UTA Analysis of Theories in Nursing Nurs 5327 Ronda Mintz-Binder, RN, MSN, DNP April 19, 2014 Terminally Ill Patients' and End of Life Care: A Multidisciplinary Concept Analysis With an aging population in our country we are facing an increasing number of patients’ that are coming to the end of their lives and are presenting with terminal illness. As life expectancy increases we are seeing more and more patent that are 65 year old and older in need of end of life care. Research and medical developments have provided a vast array of treatment options available to our patients’. After patients’ have exhausted all available treatment options for their disease processes they face the reality that their life is coming to an end. Patients’ near the end choose between quality of life over quantity of life. One service available to terminal patients’ is hospice care which offers palliative care to patients’ at the end of life. Health care providers must be able to face and appropriately care for patients’ with terminal illness and end of life care. At times it may be difficult for health care providers to face or present the truth to a patient that further treatment is futile and end of life care would be appropriate. Advanced practice nurses’ will face terminal illness and it is required of them to be able to sufficiently treat, manage, and discuss end of life care with these...
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...Non-Verbal Communication Student Name Here Steve Ott November 10, 2006 Pop Culture Versus Research: How Gender is Perceived in Non-Verbal Communication When selecting a topic for my research paper I started with the idea of exploring the differences in body language used by the different genders. I changed my focus after I read the information presented by two mainstream magazines targeted specifically for women and men. To obtain a woman's perspective I chose an article from Cosmopolitan magazine titled "6 Body-Language Mistakes All Couples Make". For a masculine view I chose an article from Men's Health titled "10 Subtle Signs of What She's Thinking and Feeling". The way in which the information was presented in the two magazines struck me as significant as to how gender is stereotyped by the media and acts as reinforcement in a person's gender identification. I found it personally interesting how the article from Cosmopolitan was four pages long, well documented with excerpts from academic publications, and presented the differences between male and female nonverbal body language as it pertained to relationships. The article in the Men's Health article was very short and succinct and focused on how to read a woman's body language to know if she was interested in having sex. The difference in these two articles only reinforced the stereotypical views of men and women as viewed by our society. I think it would be safe...
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...certainly be a positive development for the company and its shareholders, but there are a few major problems that will continue to keep J.C. Penney in the red. This paper will examine the problems faced by J.C. Penney using information collected from reputable Internet sites to draw a conclusion on solutions that would repair the company’s image and profitability. Brief History of J.C. Penney For over a century, J.C. Penney has been one of America’s leading retailers with steady growth since its opening in 1902. At its peak, JCP had 1,109 department stores operating in the United States and Puerto Rico. In addition to its brick and mortar locations, JCP.com was one of the largest apparel and home furnishing sites on the Internet and the nation’s largest general merchandise catalog business.2 Through these retail channels, J.C. Penney offers a wide array of national, private and exclusive brands, which reflect the Company’s commitment to providing customers with style and quality at a smart price. JCP is traded on the New York Stock Exchange and although it has had a significant downfall in its stock price, it is executing a strategic plan to be the growth leader in the retail industry. “Key to this strategy is J.C. Penney’s “Every Day Matters” brand positioning, intended to generate deeper, more emotionally driven...
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