16 Apr As a mental health worker, it is essential to understand the family systems: Individuals and their roles and boundaries. This assignment
Assessment Description
As a mental health worker, it is essential to understand the family systems: Individuals and their roles and boundaries. This assignments will help you understand how to analyze a family system.
Access and complete the “Family Dynamics and Systems Worksheet 5.”
While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
This assignment uses a scoring guide. Please review the scoring guide prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are not required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite.
Turn in the completed assignment by the end of Topic 5.
AttachmentsMHW-512.R.T5Worksheet5ScoringGuide.docxMHW-512.T5.FamilySystemsWorksheet
MHW-512 Family Dynamics and Systems Worksheet 5
As a mental health worker, it is essential to understand the family systems: Individuals and their roles and boundaries. This assignment will help you understand how to analyze a family system.
Cite two to four sources (in addition to the textbook) to support your answers.
After viewing the What’s Eating Gilbert Grape film and reading the “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape Case Study,” answer the following prompts:
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Explain how the family of origin dynamics caused the family structure of Gilbert’s family (200-250 words). |
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Explain what the viewer doesn’t know about Gilbert’s family (200-250 words): |
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Hypothesize about what leads to the mental health/social issues in Gilbert’s family (100-150 words): Suicide Obesity Poverty Sexual promiscuity |
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Using Gilbert’s family system, select three of the following of Bowen’s theories and explain how they are present in the Gilbert’s family. Provide examples (75-100 words each): |
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Triangles |
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Nuclear Family Emotional Process |
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Family Projection Process |
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Multigenerational Transmission Process |
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Differentiation of Self |
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Sibling Position |
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Emotional Cutoff |
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Emotional Process in Society |
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Lastly, imagine Gilbert Grape approached you to assist his family as their mental health worker: |
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Explain your approach to providing treatment for this family. What preliminary steps would you take to begin your assessment of this family? Why? (400-500 words) |
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MHW-512: Family Dynamics and Systems Worksheet 5
Scoring Guide
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The worksheet fully explains how the family of origin dynamics caused the family structure of Gilbert’s family in the film What's Eating Gilbert Grape. |
0/20 |
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The worksheet fully explains what the viewer doesn’t know about Gilbert’s family in the film What's Eating Gilbert Grape. |
0/10 |
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The worksheet fully explains Bowen’s family systems theory. |
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The worksheet fully hypothesizes about what leads to the mental health/social issues (suicide, obesity, poverty, and sexual promiscuity) in Gilbert’s family in the film What's Eating Gilbert Grape. |
0/20 |
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The worksheet fully explains three of Bowen's theories and how they are present in Gilbert's family in the film What's Eating Gilbert Grape. |
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The worksheet fully explains the student's approach to providing treatment for Gilbert's family in the film What's Eating Gilbert Grape. In addition, the worksheet fully explains what preliminary steps the student would take to begin his or her assessment of this family. |
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Total |
0/90 |
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