Dysfunctional family

virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently” (Angelou). As a kid, I didn’t have the courage I needed to see the most important aspect of life, I spent most of my time trying to fit in amongst my peers, with my family, and in my education. However, this essay isn’t about the struggles of being a part of the pack, it’s about the courage to stand out and set out in your own direction. This wasn’t a task for the weak-hearted, this was a journey that weathered…

to Amanda that he goes “to the movies because — I like adventure. Adventure is something I don’t have much of at work, so I go to the movies.” He fantasizes about escaping the insipid chore of working at the warehouse and the confines of the dysfunctional apartment. In retreating to the movies, Tom is attempting to fill the void in his heart that longs for everything his life lacks. He doesn’t think to make his own adventure possible and seeks the easy way out through films, where everything…

Traditional families commonly contain one man and woman, usually married, living in the same house with their children (East 604). People commonly view traditional families as functional families, but if a family does not serve as a traditional one, does that mean the family represents a dysfunctional one? During the novel Jim the Boy by Tony Earley, the reader follows a young boy, Jim, who lives in a less than traditional family with his widowed mother, Cissy, and her three older brothers, Zeno…

fail to adequately sum up the full spectrum of my experiences at the teen shelter and so I decided to simply talk about my experiences and integrate research within it. This summer I was an intern for runaway and homeless teen shelter and center with Family Services Incorporated. My job as an intern was to complete 60+ hours of training, respond to crisis phone calls, help with intake paperwork, interact with teens, and participate in and lead group counseling sessions. I was able to…

of evil, and other ritual actions performed by the narrator that actually deepened the story. In the story, Tara, a nine-year-old biracial girl is often abused by her white grandmother. Before Tara’s visit to her grandmother, there were some family issues that aroused the animosity between her mother and grandmother. So, Tara’s grandmother, Lydia, has difficulty in accepting Tara as her granddaughter and abuse her with utmost hatred. Not only does Tara…

Love has always been a mystery to me. Not in the sense of love that comes from another person of the opposite gender but more so family & self love. These two types of love are my monster/creature in a scooby doo episode, Only difference is that my episode is sixteen years long with no clues left along the way. The definition of “love” is an intense feeling of deep affection. But there are many other definitions that others may classify love to be. Love is the person that I have identified but…

victims. A first hand source of these child soldiers tragedies states, ““At the end of the day, these children are victims of older soldiers, forced into war out of personal circumstances or peer pressure. Some are seeking revenge after seeing their families slaughtered. Once they're given an AK-47 and drugs, their innocence is lost, replaced by a killer instinct”(Koinange). This explains how children were put to the test to become the people they are today. Only because they were victims of…

was on, I was a Huxtable. And in reality, I was still pretty damn close to being a Huxtable. I was the youngest child of a black, upper middle-class family that resided in New York. My parents both had post-graduate degrees – in fact my father, like Heathcliff Huxtable, was a good-humored physician. Just like the Huxtables, we were a nuclear family of seven: two cis-gendered married parents with five spirited children who rarely got into any serious trouble. The relationships between the…

I gave only a little of my family of origin, but when I think of everything I have endured and how I feel today, I wonder if I am in the right program, but then I hear my basic mistakes, irrational thinking, and faulty thoughts and realize that maybe I am in the right field; only time will tell. In my future work with families, I can see my family having an amazing impact. In my family I have seen the plasticity of humans, the strength in tough times, and…

pairing a family therapy model in conjunction with my family of origin has brought about insight regarding how therapy may have been a benefiting factor within my childhood family. A family of origin can be conceived as the ”living unit in which a person has his or her beginnings physiologically, psychologically, and emotionally” (Rover, 2004, p.44). Upon examination of my family of origin, it is evident that I was fortunate enough to find safety and security within a functional family unit.…