Family System

Family SystemIdentifying Information Mr. Gil Buckman is 35 year-old European American Man. He is Married with 3 Children living in the home. The Buckmans are expecting a baby in February. (Grazer Howard, 1989)Presenting or Identified Problem Mr. Buckman is seeking services to military service strengthen his family system. His primary concern is that his son Kevin duration 9 is having difficulty in school and suffering from an emotional disturbance. Mr. Buckman feels Kevins struggles are a direct case of his parenting skills. Mr. Buckman is also struggling with a decision that must be make regarding his career. He wants to ensure his family stableness but making partner may cost him metre with his family. He would like to find other job but with a baby on the way he does not feel this is an option. (Grazer Howard, 1989) medical checkup chronicle There are no known health risks. The Buckman family appears to be preferably healthy. save, Gil reports that his father drinks quite heavily, mostly on special occasions and might possibly be an alcoholic. Kevin is seeing a headhunter for his emotional call for. (Grazer Howard, 1989)Immediate Family System The Buckman Home consists of the Client Gil Buckman, his wife Karen Buckman, and their 3 children Kevin, Taylor, and Justin. Karen is a 34 year-old, European American mother to Kevin age 9, Taylor Age 6, and Justin age 3. She is also expecting a baby. All of the children are the biologic offspring of Gil and Karen and address their Ethnicity.The Spousal SubsystemGil and Karen suck difficulty communicating at times. Gil resents Karen for not telling him around the pregnancy sooner. Karen thinks Gil is blaming her for take awayting pregnant. Women fall in choices, Men have responsibility. They maintain a healthy sex sustenance and mutual belief systems. (Pellebon, 2009)Sibling SubsystemKevin Taylor and Justin have petty arguments and antagonize each other. Kevin resents having to care for his younger s iblings and a lot replies why do I have to do everything? when asked to serve comfortably his siblings. (Pellebon, 2009) farm/Child SubsystemGil is a mature father. He tries to rectify his own relationship with his father by being a develop parent. He broadcasts well with his kids, keeping an open dialogue. He has a very macho type relationship with Kevin, firearm he is more nurturing with his daughter Taylor. Karen admits that they were more overprotective with Kevin when he was younger and less anxious with Justin. (Pellebon, 2009)Parent/Grandparent SubsystemGil and his father have a strained relationship. Gill is bitter that his father was neglectful. Frank realizes he has made mis piddles and is reaching out to Gil. Frank also feels his son is a better father than he was. of late hes been learning to communicate with Gil. He previously was more partial to Larry. (Pellebon, 2009)Extended Family System not in home Mr. Buckmans Grandmother age 88 lives with his Parents Fran k age 64 and Marilyn age 63. grannie has been uprooted since the attend of Frank and Marilyns youngest son Larry and his son Cool. The Buckmans are of European American Descent. Cool Buckman is bi-racial. His ethnicity is both European and African American. Gil has an older sister Helen, who is a single mom to Julie and Gary. He has a younger sister Susan who is unify to Nathan and they have a daughter named Patty. The youngest sibling discussed earlier is Larry.The Buckman family is intermeshed with open dialogue. Family roles are clear with the perfunctory diffuse boundary. (Grazer Howard, 1989)Peer Relationships and Impairment Mr. Buckman is deeply rooted in his family. They have limited community involvement, Gil coaches his sons junior-grade league and Karen babysits children in the neighborhood. He has strained work relationships due to his lack of socializing in range to be with his family. His work and family responsibilities dont allow much free time for social networ king. This can cause a deficit in support systems. (Grazer Howard, 1989)Environmental Factors Gil works outside the home. Karen stays home with the children. They live in a two story suburban home located in a very sightly middle- class neighborhood. The home is modern and well furnished. Little financial struggle except maintain a moderate budget. Gil and Karen seemed very chaotically connected to Gils family. They get along with their neighbors and the community. (Grazer Howard, 1989)Educational/ Vocational/ Employment score and Impairment Mr. Buckman chose to college instead of taking over his fathers business. He works in financial firm. His need to help his son is taking away from his ability to perform well in employment (Grazer Howard, 1989)Legal History Mr. Buckman does not have a criminal record nor has he sought legal services or been sued. His younger brother has a gambling addiction and has been involved with illegal racketeering. His niece Julie was arrested for p anhandling. (Grazer Howard, 1989)Resources Gil Buckman sought services to help with his son, so he and his immediate family would be the Client System. However the extended Buckman Family are so enmeshed that it is hard to separate them. Therefore we go away consider them to be a Target System. There is a tremendous transference of intrinsic and extrinsic get-up-and-go between these two systems. Extrinsically, they spend a keen process of time with each other, helping with family events and combining resources such as serving dishes. Also they share in the responsibility of caring for Grandma. Intrinsically, their emotional responses add to the support the family provides. There are few boundaries in what is acceptable conversation. (Pellebon, 2009)The School and Child Psychologist would be the Action System in helping with Kevins emotional needs. However it is met with resistance from Gil, who fears the stigma of special education and feels responsible for causing the strain. He believes he has the potential energy to solve the problems within his own family subsystem. His intrinsic attempts to be there for him emotionally and mentally have turn up futile. So he moved toward a more extrinsic approach by spending silver on a psychiatrist and spending time coaching his sons baseball team. At this point Mr. Buckman feels he has exhausted these resources and seeks services elsewhere. (Pellebon, 2009)Special Circumstances The Buckman family has no religious affiliation. There are also no known physical or mental health problems. There appears to be a great deal of tension within the family and Kevin suffers from an emotional disturbance. Frank Buckman has been known to abuse alcohol. (Grazer Howard, 1989)Life Area Impairments Gil feels his fathers drinking causes few embarrassment at weddings and family fucntions. However no one has intervened. They make light of it and go on. Kevins emotional issues have put a great deal of added pressure on the family. (Grazer Howard, 1989)Cognitive Affective and Behavioral carrying into action Gil is college educated and quite intelligent. Has strong cognitive abilities but does not handle stress or tension well. He becomes very irritable and irrational. He raises his voice to his family and uses a negative tone. He does not have much confidence in his parenting skills as he has resentment toward his own father. Mr. Buckman is generally content notwithstanding when dealing with family or work. He tries to be nonchalant until he feels his ability to handle responsibilities is threatened. (Grazer Howard, 1989)Positive musical accompanimentFrank knows Larry is gambling and gives him money to help covering his losses. He is reinforcing the behavior to gamble even when Larry loses he is rewarded with more money from his father. (Pellebon, 2009)Negative ReinforcementNathan did not allow Patty to attend preschool and limited her time with Gils kids. He believed that removing these social influence s would increase her ability to learn and maintain her extreme intelligence. (Pellebon, 2009)Positive PunishmentGrandma notices Gil is tense and arguing with Karen. So she tells a story of her first roller coaster ride using it as metaphor for life. She in a sense scolds Gil for getting upset hoping to stop his ranting. (Pellebon, 2009)Negative Punishment The family shares extrinsically, bountiful and combining resources but when Larry comes for a visit they are guarded with their money. They believe withholding money from Larry will stop his erratic spending behavior. (Pellebon, 2009)Respondent Conditioning Gil felt attached by Frank. Frank would take him to a baseball game every year and leave him with an usher leaving him feeling abandoned by his Dad. Even as an adult baseball games trigger sad memories and feelings of abandonment. (Ashford, LeCroy, Lortie, 2006)HabituationThe Buckman family learns to bond and communicate by the routine of tucking the children into bed every n ight. Saying ingenuousnight and I love every night creates a habit of showing care and affection. (Ashford, LeCroy, Lortie, 2006)ModelingGil spends time with his kids and communicates with them in order to model good parenting skills. He hopes that by being a good parent that his kids will grow up to be good parents. He was not aware that his father was also observing and learning to be a better parent. (Ashford, LeCroy, Lortie, 2006)Vicarious LearningKaren learns that her sister-in-law Susan would give her husband Nathan oral sex in the car when he would get tense. Later when in the car with Gil when he is tense she attempts to calm him down in the same manner. (Pellebon, 2009)Strengths and impuissance Gil Buckman is very motivated to make a positive impact on his family. He doesnt cope well with stress. However he is eager to go through change in his life. He lacks self control yet he is resourceful and goal oriented. He is assertive, and willing to preserve in order to meet t he needs of his family. Mr. Buckman gets along well with others, yet has limited ties to his community. What little involvement he has is positive, he has effect fellow relationships. (Grazer Howard, 1989)Multidimensional AssessmentMr. Buckman has the capabilities to utilize resources provided to him. He has adequate means to meet the needs of his family. His readiness to implement change will assist him in his preparation to care for Kevins emotional problems.