3.07 Family Analysis

The three targeted areas are urgently needed by the family system from the assessment are a stable home, an interaction between siblings, and addressing the major ongoing problem within the family. For a stable home, in the movie scene, it appears how unstable the Grapes family home is, the house is damaged, and they did not have enough money to rebuild it or fix the parts that were falling apart. The second target area is the interaction between siblings, they did not express their feelings towards each other or shared feelings among each other and instead kept it to themselves and left it hanging. It kind of goes with my third point which is addressing the major ongoing problem within the family. No one ever talked about the struggles the family was facing. It was tearing everyone apart, but no one wanted to say anything because it would bring up the past which the mother was still suffering from. …show more content…
It affected every single person in the home. Her day starts out with eating breakfast with the family and then watches TV all day. Even though she loves her children so much, she does not take any part in raising them. Children in that town sneak around the house to see her through the window, she has basically become an object of amusement. She does not see a problem with her lifestyle or with her weight. To change this issue, a history interview will have to be conducted so then it could help to gain more insight on the family and the causes that led Bonnie to fall into depression. She could be asked on how she feels about her current situation or changes that she wants to make in her life and what kind of duties she has toward her children because they are suffering also but seems to brush it off every time. She needs to communicate with her children more and give them the attention they