The Gross Family Case Study

Decent Essays
The Gross Family has endured so much in just short of one year. Jon, the father, was in a terrible accident about a year ago that left his family with great financial and emotional burden. Now this family has lost Jon, their father, spouse, and son.
About two weeks ago, Jon went to the ER due to tremendous weight loss and feeling fatigued. He found out that he had cysts on his pancreas, and would require surgery to remove them. However, Jon was too weak to have the needed surgery, but after receiving nutrition via IV he was able to gain enough strength to sustain the operation. He had a double operation to remove the cysts, and to remove hardware from his jaw from the earlier accident. Surgery went well, but complications came later as Jon

Related Documents

  • Decent Essays

    Circumstance: Ms. Smalls (MHP) made monthly contact with Deonte’s family and Deonte. Action: MHP conducted monthly visit with Deonte’s family and Deonte. Alex and Ryan (MHS) reported Deonte is doing well in school. Deonte continues to have some issues with peers and talking during teaching time.…

    • 118 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    The concept of dysfunction refers to closed communication (Bitter, 2014). Function is described by open communication that leads to health interactions and behaviors (Bitter, 2014). For example in the case of Janssens family, the mother was struggling to gain power and control over her current family dynamics (Rober, 2011). The family would be considered to be functioning at a dysfunctional level. The communication between the mother and her two sons were closed (Bitter, 2014).…

    • 268 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    He went trough this difficult surgery…

    • 896 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Balancing Act – Cheerleading and College Success vs. Complex Family Dynamics By Regina Aaron Escondido, CA - The professional voice that greets callers at a successful auto body shop belongs not to a seasoned vehicle repair specialist, but to Dominique “Domi” Hillery, a former member of Santa Monica College’s all-girl cheerleading squad. Domi was a member of the squad for 2 years and participated in many events and competitions, but her aspirations to become a professional cheerleader, choreographer and entrepreneur are on hold. As with many young adults, transitioning from living at home to “leaving the nest” didn’t work out and resulted in Domi returning to live with her father after being on her own for a few years.…

    • 878 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Over the course of her life she had numerous surgeries. Her first surgery an emergency surgery Lucy had to get the lump removed which was growing with time. All the surgeries entailed not having part right side of her jaw which, was removed due to the cancer. As a treatment to cancer Lucy had…

    • 163 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Family Scenarios

    • 449 Words
    • 2 Pages

    On 3/26/2018 I interviewed the some of family members to David Zell at the Brookfield Police Department. I spoke with Carol Zell at approximately 1110 hrs. Carol advised she was a sister to David. Carol advised that she was unaware of anyone wanting to harm David. I brought to Carol's attention that there was a mention of a family trust.…

    • 449 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Aging is an important aspect of life and planning must be done to ensure that as we age that we have the support and resources available that we need to be taken care of properly. Families have different situations that have to be address as a person in their family reaches old age. Family decisions should be made that keep the care and wellbeing of the older members of the family as the primary concern. Not all decisions are going to be the same for all families and each individual situation would need to be considered to determine what is going to work best for each family. I will look at some aspects of planning and what I have discussed with my family going forward.…

    • 1488 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Dawn's Attachment Theory

    • 781 Words
    • 4 Pages

    The parents had a strong sense of themselves and the associations with their child. Before the baby’s birth, they had a positive view of themselves, as parents and their relationships. Their lives were balanced and secure, but know life is unbalanced and insecure. Terry’s parenting has changed because of the new baby and the stress of taking care of an ill child. According to Helena, Gun, and Bengt (2006), long-lasting illness in the family can be a stressful event or a crisis for family members.…

    • 781 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Your Family Case Study

    • 1310 Words
    • 6 Pages

    Group topic: Your Family PO attended group on time and moderately participated in the group activities that address repairing damaged relationships with family members. Activities included learning different roles in the family, completing the handout, and identifying what needed to get done in order to repair the family ties. PO actively engaged in the group discussion, openly shared the relationships he has with his family in group, provided supportive feedback to others, but had a hard time to identify his own role in the family. PO appears to be in the maintenance stage of change as evidenced by his participation and engagement in group process. Moyer Group topic: Your Family PO attended group on time and moderately participated…

    • 1310 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Fugate Family Case Study

    • 312 Words
    • 2 Pages

    The Fugate family was no typical family. After multitudinous generations of inbreeding, the Fugate family was known by doctors throughout the Troublesome Creek area. Speculation flew through eastern Kentucky on why the people were blue. With more and more people talking about the family, doctors started to come in and investigate. Doctors came to the presumption that the family’s blue pigmentation was a result of the blood that was derived from their past generations.…

    • 312 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Brilliant Essays

    INTRODUCTION The Jehovah’s Witness religion is a Christian movement with 6.3 million followers worldwide with 0.002% in India. This community does not accept blood or blood products based on their biblical teachings. This belief when compounded with a trauma scenario in India where there is alack of awareness of this community leads to creation of obstacles in their treatment plan along with legal, medical and ethical challenges for the health care provider1. ABSTRACT The awareness of the beliefs of Jehovah’s Witness’s in India is very poor.…

    • 1078 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Brilliant Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Sitcoms are a window into the mindset of mainstream America as they move from a very idealistic portrayal of society to a more realistic one, highlighting how American society is becoming more accepting of difference. Sitcoms are the comedic, thirty minute television shows in which the episodes can be viewed alone and still be understood, as long as one has the basic background of the main characters. This formulation was an instant success with the introduction of I Love Lucy in 1951. Sitcoms of the far past, and the ones of today are quite representative of the time periods that they take place in, yet they do still emphasize an idealistic version of society, especially the early ones. Sitcoms such as I Love Lucy and Growing Pains demonstrate…

    • 965 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Grant Foreman explains how heartbroken the parents were after losing their children from cholera during their travel. Foreman says “Parents were turning with…

    • 1577 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Family Assessment The community environment is a suburb of Saint Paul and is on the east side of the Twin Cities area. The housing development is located off a busy street that consists of a public High School, a grocery store, multiple fast food restaurants, a city park, and is one mile from a major highway system. The housing development includes over one hundred and fifty houses that are mostly brick, two story homes with vivid green grass, colorful flower gardens and filled with friendly, waving homeowners.…

    • 1124 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Family Business Case Study

    • 2491 Words
    • 10 Pages

    ENTR: 314 – FAMILY BUSINESS Name – Ireen Ekka GDGWI ID -140107 Essay Question: Consider the primary stakeholder involved, discuss the major challenges and issues that family firms during the succession process. Introduction The Family firm has been important features of the business landscape for centuries and remains important today. They can be small, medium or large and has been seen in all sectors and in all three industrial revolutions.…

    • 2491 Words
    • 10 Pages
    Improved Essays