The family dynamic appears to be very broken. For Leah the final straw to the family seems to have come when they moved out of the same town as her father. The comfort she had with knowing he was there if she wanted to go see him was now gone. Her mother seems to add several stress points to Leah’s life. One, her mother has a new job that keeps her busy. Two, the man she was dating from the old town moved to be close to her in the new town. It seems any free time Leah’s mother has is spent with him outside of work. Leah is worried about the health of her mother who has diabetes. It appears that her mother does not care well for herself with her medical condition and is suffering some side effects from the nightly drinking and stress of life. With her mother being unpredictable in her moods, even volatile that weighs on Leah. The biggest burden for Leah seems to be what would happen to Leah if something happened to her mother. With all of these factors there is no support system for Leah except her new friends. These new friends are the ones it seems that introduced Leah to the world of escape through drugs, drinking and so on. If she turns away from them and quits drinking and drugs who will she have in her life? Her one friend from back home who is worried about her cannot sustain Leah as a support system. It would seem vital that for Leah to move into recovery from drug and alcohol abuse she would need the support of her mother as a minimum. In that case it would appear to me that having her mother involved in counseling may be beneficial as well. There is so much pain and loss that Leah needs to grieve. The adults in her life who brought her into this world have seemingly abandoned her for their own selfish needs. That has had an impact on her brother and instead of Leah and her brother
The family dynamic appears to be very broken. For Leah the final straw to the family seems to have come when they moved out of the same town as her father. The comfort she had with knowing he was there if she wanted to go see him was now gone. Her mother seems to add several stress points to Leah’s life. One, her mother has a new job that keeps her busy. Two, the man she was dating from the old town moved to be close to her in the new town. It seems any free time Leah’s mother has is spent with him outside of work. Leah is worried about the health of her mother who has diabetes. It appears that her mother does not care well for herself with her medical condition and is suffering some side effects from the nightly drinking and stress of life. With her mother being unpredictable in her moods, even volatile that weighs on Leah. The biggest burden for Leah seems to be what would happen to Leah if something happened to her mother. With all of these factors there is no support system for Leah except her new friends. These new friends are the ones it seems that introduced Leah to the world of escape through drugs, drinking and so on. If she turns away from them and quits drinking and drugs who will she have in her life? Her one friend from back home who is worried about her cannot sustain Leah as a support system. It would seem vital that for Leah to move into recovery from drug and alcohol abuse she would need the support of her mother as a minimum. In that case it would appear to me that having her mother involved in counseling may be beneficial as well. There is so much pain and loss that Leah needs to grieve. The adults in her life who brought her into this world have seemingly abandoned her for their own selfish needs. That has had an impact on her brother and instead of Leah and her brother