Case Study Of The Johnson Family Case

The Johnson Family is in crisis. The Johnson family is going through a difficult situation concerning their finances and their children. The household circumstances is that because of the father, who is in the army and in Afghanistan, it left the family with little income forcing the mother, to get a job. The children are going through a tough time without their parents even though they have their maternal grandmother taking care of them when their mother is not able to. This paper will analyze the case as well as to use appropriate theories to explain what is going on with the children. In this case, there are two daughters. The oldest daughter Sarah is three years old. Since Sarah is three years old that would put her in the Childhood Stage …show more content…
The father of Sarah and Gina is in the military. It was when he was deployed to Afghanistan that Sarah started to display baby like behavior, she was very close to him and very upset when he left. In most military families when a family member is deployed it affects the whole family, especially the children. Also, their mother who now has to work at Walmart to get some extra money to help pay the bills is not at home as much as she used to, leaving the wellbeing of the children to be left with the …show more content…
“In this stage infants need constant love, affection and nourishment and the infant would have to trust that these things will be provided for them, if not the infant will start to start to mistrust” (Zastrow, C. H., & Kirst- Ashman, K. K., 2013 pg. 314). Gina is in the Sensory Motor Stage of the Cognitive Theory. This stage says that “every child is born with certain strategies for interacting with the environment” (Zastrow, C. H., & Kirst- Ashman, K. K., 2013 pg. 124). Gina needed interaction with her mother and since she was not getting it when she was work, when she got home from work she cries for the most of the night while in her mother arms to make up for the time she didn’t get to bond with