The first theory I immediately thought about was Strengths Perspective in relation to family work. What drew me to strengths perspective was how Collins, Jordan, and Coleman related it to family social work saying:
The strengths-based perspective reveals to family social workers how to discover and explore, embellish, and exploit families’ strengths and resources in the journey of achieving their goals, realizing their dreams, and shedding the shackles of their own lack of confidence and misgivings. (p. 148)
Collins et al. mention family protective factors and how they act as strengths for a family, saying, “These factors play out as the family works together as a team” (2013, p.158). While I was trying to understand the situation, I found …show more content…
Collins et al. discuss how we define gender roles based on a number of factors, including parents, culture, social attitudes, etc. (2013, p.175). I know that my parents had the largest influence on how I saw gender roles. My mother and father had a very equal role in our family. Both of them cooked and cleaned, they never expressed that it was a “woman’s job” to do something, or a “man’s job”. They never told me that I had to get married and have children, nor did they assume I would. I was always impressed with how my parents encouraged me to feel beautiful and comfortable as myself, even though I felt more awkward than most kids my age. This had a large role in how I see gender roles now. I think my parents ideas about gender roles helped in the event of meeting my birth parents because they both acted as a strong support system for me. They were equally supportive and open to talking about the differences between how my biological parents treated each other and how my parents treated each other. My biological family had more of a patriarchal view, whereas my parents were more …show more content…
I had a hard time seeing how largely significant this event was, but they knew I needed to talk about it. In Family Systems Theory, one of the key assumptions is, “A family belongs to a larger social system and encompass many subsystems” (Collins et al., 2013, p.72). This is one situation where two families needed to expand their subsystem to include a new family member. My parents needed to include my biological parents in our family subsystem and my biological family needed to expand their subsystem to include another child. One ritual in my family that has always been important is the need for communication. My father never yelled at me, he only wanted to discuss what happened and how it affected my life. I knew that this was like every other significant life event, there would need to be serious discussion had. I talked with my parents about how I felt excited to include my other set of parents in my life and how I felt lucky to have them. In return, my parents wanted to assure me that they supported whatever decisions I made concerning my biological family, while also cautioning me to try and see the whole
The strengths-based perspective reveals to family social workers how to discover and explore, embellish, and exploit families’ strengths and resources in the journey of achieving their goals, realizing their dreams, and shedding the shackles of their own lack of confidence and misgivings. (p. 148)
Collins et al. mention family protective factors and how they act as strengths for a family, saying, “These factors play out as the family works together as a team” (2013, p.158). While I was trying to understand the situation, I found …show more content…
Collins et al. discuss how we define gender roles based on a number of factors, including parents, culture, social attitudes, etc. (2013, p.175). I know that my parents had the largest influence on how I saw gender roles. My mother and father had a very equal role in our family. Both of them cooked and cleaned, they never expressed that it was a “woman’s job” to do something, or a “man’s job”. They never told me that I had to get married and have children, nor did they assume I would. I was always impressed with how my parents encouraged me to feel beautiful and comfortable as myself, even though I felt more awkward than most kids my age. This had a large role in how I see gender roles now. I think my parents ideas about gender roles helped in the event of meeting my birth parents because they both acted as a strong support system for me. They were equally supportive and open to talking about the differences between how my biological parents treated each other and how my parents treated each other. My biological family had more of a patriarchal view, whereas my parents were more …show more content…
I had a hard time seeing how largely significant this event was, but they knew I needed to talk about it. In Family Systems Theory, one of the key assumptions is, “A family belongs to a larger social system and encompass many subsystems” (Collins et al., 2013, p.72). This is one situation where two families needed to expand their subsystem to include a new family member. My parents needed to include my biological parents in our family subsystem and my biological family needed to expand their subsystem to include another child. One ritual in my family that has always been important is the need for communication. My father never yelled at me, he only wanted to discuss what happened and how it affected my life. I knew that this was like every other significant life event, there would need to be serious discussion had. I talked with my parents about how I felt excited to include my other set of parents in my life and how I felt lucky to have them. In return, my parents wanted to assure me that they supported whatever decisions I made concerning my biological family, while also cautioning me to try and see the whole