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Effective treatment interventions with family
Effective treatment interventions with family
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Family Treatment
Effective family treatment is a structured form of psychotherapy that pursues to reduce conflict and distress by bettering the system’s interactions between family affiliates. The family interventions integrate activities to build family support. Individuals or organizations make the interventions to improve the health of a person who is in need of assistance in a family. A family unit is a significant factor in children, juveniles, and young adults’ pro-social growth. Momentous research has established that family functioning offers an early and unremitting influence on conduct disorders, family attachment, subsequent delinquency, peers’ choice, and school bonding. Families are of great significance since they function as the primary social unit during early childhood developmental years (Claxton et al., 2017). Families provide fundamental needs, emotional support, and moral guidance for other members of the family. When the family does not manage to fulfill its obligations, the children usually suffer.
Family dysfunction a significant impact on future antisocial and delinquent behavior. It gives children opportunities and models to engage in problematic behaviors—those kids dwelling in families where divorce has happened likely to show problem behaviors and health issues (Romney et al., 2020). Poor family management practices constantly predict forthcoming wrongdoing and drug abuse. Research suggests that bettering family functioning reduces issues associated with family issues in children and adolescents. In contemporary time, there are interventions intended to provide effective treatment intervention with family.
Theoretical Foundation
The family exercises a wonderful impact on a teenager’s peril for delinquency since it offers kids the primary socialization framework. The association’s theoretic foundation is based commonly on societal control theories, which asserts that felonious actions are more probable to happen when a person’s tie to society is broken or weak. In this theoretical framework, the family functions as a socializing instrument by educating broods conventional values and norms. The theory of social control states that a robust and demonstrative bond between parent and child is one of the essential ways to create social ties and prevent teenagers from taking part in delinquency and other problematic conduct.
The theory theorizes that once children are nurtured in nontraditional family structures or a family functioning lessens, their connection to parentages is stunted. Such persons are more attached to felonious actions than the ones who have grown healthy internal controls. Goldman and Burke (2008) argue that ineffective parenting results in children being physically aggressive, impulsive, and take part in risk-seeking behaviors. Moffitt’s theory asserts that brain growth can be tampered in the womb because of several issues such as the mother’s use of drugs or poor nutrition. It might cause development delays in the child or result in the kid’s executive functioning skills problems. These issues can result to bad socialization or stricter chastisement from paternities as a reaction to the kid’s challenging behavior (Carr, 2019). The theory concedes that childhood delinquent conduct does not result in a life of delinquency and identifies that bothered broods are considerably more likely to grow into disturbed juveniles. The proposal then to prevent a life development of continuing felonious status is to cultivate early intervention plans to aid troubled children in establishing and strengthening ties among and between peers, parentages, and the community.
Effective Treatment Interventions
The strengthening of family programs focuses on modifying the maladaptive designs of communication and interaction in households in which childhoods display developmental problems. On the other hand, some family intervention agendas use multicomponent interventions comprising behavioral parental training, child social-skills training, and family therapy. The multicomponent courses are called family abilities training. Family reinforcement curricula usually are executed for families who have childhoods identified with behavioral and slight emotional complications such as depression, behavior disorder, and social or school issues (Romney at al., 2020). A qualified therapist usually does it in a clinical environment with the children and parent. The effective treatment interventions include:
Behavioral therapy family program
It has different skill creating training for children and parents during part of the session. The household is then brought together for doings all through the latest part of the treatment session. It aims to reduce alcohol and drug use in youth and young adults and co-co-occurring behavior like conduct problems, depression, family discord, school, and work attendance. This intervention is used to address family conflict by improving the interaction and communication of family members.
Structural family therapy
This intervention assesses the boundaries, coalitions, subsystems, and hierarchies within a family and centers on direct interactions among family affiliates as the primary method of promoting change. It uses many ideas to bring together and understand a family. This intervention focuses on strengthening and adjusting the family system to ensure that the parents are in charge and that adults and children establish appropriate boundaries. In this treatment, the therapist joins the family to perceive, learn, and boost their capability to help the family toughen their affiliation.
Functional family therapy
It is an approach intended to motivate and engage families and adolescents to change their harmful effects. It reflects on the understanding that numerous interpersonal systems impact negative and positive influences. The intervention provides in-home family counseling intended to address adolescent delinquency and status-offending behaviors from a family grounded viewpoint. It allows individuals to define themselves whereby their differences are appreciated. It will enable the children to become independent when it’s right and get back to the family’s care when they require nurturing.
Multisystemic Family Therapy
It is an intensive community and family-based treatment for severe juvenile wrongdoers with likely substance abuse problems and families. The main objective of this intervention is to reduce out-of-home placements and youth criminals. Many years of research have established that multisystemic family therapy is a piece of evidence-founded intervention for juveniles with severe clinical issues, including substance abuse, serious offending, delinquency, and parental physical abuse (Eeren et al., 2018). It is an effective intervention for extreme delinquency behavior and lessening of wrongdoing and incarceration; therefore, it should be recommended for clinical practice.
Conclusion
Studies of family established programs discover that family strengthening interventions have a more direct and immediate influence on improving family relationships, communication and support, and reducing family conflict. Interventions that function to strengthen the connection base of family support ideologies are more likely to yield optimistic outcomes than interventions that do not emphasize these merits. These interventions are better able to recognize the source of problematic behaviors in addition to means to correct behaviors in both parents and children. Effective treatment interventions with family are designed to deal with the problems affecting the family’s functioning and health. It can also aid a family through a challenging period, a significant change, or behavioral or mental health problems in family members.
Reference
Eeren, H. V., Goossens, L. M., Scholte, R. H., Busschbach, J. J., & Van der Rijken, R. E. (2018). Multisystemic therapy and functional family therapy compared on their effectiveness using the propensity score method. Journal of abnormal child psychology, 46(5), 1037-1050.
Romney, J. S., Hawkins, L. G., & Soloski, K. L. (2020). Gender Conformity and Suicide: A Case Study Integrating Structural Family Therapy and Satir Experiential Therapy. Clinical Case Studies, 19(4), 282-300.
Claxton, M., Onwumere, J., & Fornells-Ambrojo, M. (2017). Do family interventions improve outcomes in early psychosis? A systematic review and meta-analysis. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 371.
Goldman, S. E., & Burke, M. M. (2017). The effectiveness of interventions to increase parent involvement in special education: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis. Exceptionality, 25(2), 97-115.
Carr, A. (2019). Family therapy and systemic interventions for child‐focused problems: The current evidence base. Journal of Family Therapy, 41(2), 153-213.
Fiorello La Guardia
Fiorello La Guardia
Introduction
Fiorello La Guardia was born in December 11th 1882 in a city called New York. He was brought up in a place called Arizona, spent some time in Hungary together with her mother and other relatives and later went back to New York. He went to the New York University to study Law and graduated. He went direct to practicing law which later made him find his way in politics. During his second trial in 1916, he won elections and became a Republican in the Houseof Representatives. He served for some few months and in 1017, he did not participate in the House and was enlisted in the efforts of war. This was a promise he had given to his voters that he would enlist if he was for the war. His seat in the house was kept vacant and he possessed a good record in war. This made him be elected the second time but he declined and resigned towards the end of 1919. He wanted to concentrate on his role as the New York Board of Alderman President. From the year 1923 to 1933, he was elected in Congress. He was a very outspoken leader and supported a person known as Woodrow Wilson in the efforts of declaring war. He also advocated for the reforms in social welfare but opposed prohibition. There are many contributions he made that led to him be regarded as important in Life. This paper looks at the reasons why He is important. I will also provide my opinion on the same at the end of the paper.
Why La Guardia is important
When He was elected in the year 1916 in US House of Representatives, La Guardia was a very devoted reformer. In his capacity as a congress man, he was able to represent a slum district which was ethnically diverse in the East Harlem. Even though he was very much barred not to attend certain committee posts due to his political independence, he was a vocal leader who worked tirelessly in progressive causes. He took office in March 1917 and later commissioned in the US State Air Service Army where he rose to be the Ca.44 bombers unit Major in Command on the World War 1. He later resigned the post on December 1919.On the same year he vied for the President of New York City Board of Aldermen and won.
La Guardia won the seat of Congress of East Harlem from the strongholds of Italian in 1922 and worked in the house upto March 1933. He was not an isolationist at any given time. He always supported making use of the American influence instead of democracy (O’Brien, p247). He therefore supported anti czarist Russian Revolution and Irish independent movement. He however did not support Vlasimir Lenin. The man stood on his grounds and unlike his colleagues like Norris, he was always for internationalism and spoke in the League of Nations, disarmament conferences, peace together with Inter-parliamentary Union favor. He also wanted to make socialism be regulated and nationalized.
Like a congressman, He was very vocal and worked tirelessly in all progressive causes. He allowed a lot of immigration. He also removed the troops of US from Nicaragua who were to speak out the rights of impoverished farmers, struggling families, striking miners and oppressed minorities. La Guardia was able to fight for the great government Wall Street oversight, progressive income taxes together with national employment insurance which was for the workers who had been idled by Great depression.
The man we are talking about was among the first Republicans who voiced their opinions on the act of prohibition and urged people to note that the dry cause was likely to be disastrous later on.
In the year 1933, the New York Mayor Walker together with Tammany Hall were removed from the office because of having a scandal. La Guardia had all the determination to succeed the mayor. However he had a big challenge because he had to be the one nominated by both “Fusion” independent group and Republican Party. The big challenge was that he had not been selected as first choice in any of the parties because of their distrust on the Italians. However, he had support from Samuel Seabury the reformer, high visibility and great determination. He also had a great ability of ruining the prospects of the rivals by what is known as divisive primary contest. He was able to obtain the nominations and therefore had high hopes of winning against the competitor John O’Brien. However, Joseph McKee joined the race towards the end to be nominated with Recovery party. He was a formidable opponent in that he was being sponsored by Edward Flynn who was the boss in Bronx Democratic. He also acquired favor from President Franklin Roosevelt. This did not reduce the morale of La Guardia. It even made him stronger and thought of using corruption as a tool for campaigning. He called it the far left Red where John O’Brien was the boss’s pawnand Joseph McKee the anti Semite. La Guardia was able to win where the victory was based on the coalition complex of regular Republicans. The victory was mainly contributed by the Germans who are in middle class level living outside Manhattan, few democrats with reformed minds, socialists a good number of Jews in middle class and some Italians.
When he was joining the office in 1934, he had the following goals that he wanted to achieve. One, bring back the financial health and get rid of banker’s control, two, broaden the work relief program that was funded by the federal to support the unemployed, three, eradicate corruption in the government and other areas in economy, fourth, Change patronage and bring civil service that is merit based which has high prestige and finally make modern infrastructure in areas such as parks and transport sector.
He was able to achieve four goals out of the five in his first 100 days in office and then worked together with Governor Herbert Lehman to improve the infrastructure. He therefore left a legacy as being one of the best Mayors in the history of New York.
He is important due to the fact that he has achieved quite a lot. To mention but a few, he received an award of gold medal for the hundred year association of New York for his tremendous contribution in the city. He was also honored by US Postal Service and was given a 14c postage stamp.
La Guardia was fond of music and loved it. He was well known for conducting student and professional orchestras. He created a high school of Art and Music in the year 1936 called La Guardia High school. On top of this other institutions have been named after him for instance La Guardia community college.
Conclusion
In conclusion, La Guardia is an important man in history. He was a devoted man with principles. A man who believed that everything is possible even when all others had lost hope. Before he became the Mayor of New York, the city was terrible. The administration was poor, decaying parks, poor health and social services, rusty bridges among others. He was able to attract funds and made the administration look attractive; he was able to construct bridges, dug water tunnels, and built water reservoirs, parks, sewage systems among other things. His main aim was to see that the people living in New Yolk enjoyed and had enough security. He was able to fight gambling, cleared burlesque houses among others. La Guardia is a role model to many leaders. He was able to provide the best and honest leadership during his tenure. He served with a lot of dedication that many leaders should emulate and offer services to the people without fear or favor.
It is therefore necessary to mention that La Guardia became one of the domineering leaders in New York and in history. His leadership involved addressing the grievances and sentiments of the people. He was able to fight corruption, presided the world war and made the city the best for people to live in. He is therefore an important leader in the history and therefore deserves to be honored.
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Bayor, Ronald H. Fiorello La Guardia: Ethnicity and Reform. Harlan Davidson, 1993. Print.
Kessner, Thomas. Fiorello H. La Guardia and the Making of Modern New York.McGraw-Hill, 1991. Print.
La Guardia, Fiorello Henry. The Making of an Insurgent: An Autobiography, 1882-1919. Greenwood Press, 1985. Print.
O’Brien, Steven G, et al. American Political Leaders: From Colonial Times to the Present. Abc-Clio Inc, 1991. Print.
In the story
In the story, “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver, the narrator goes through a life-changing event that opens his eyes to a new way of looking at life and blindness. Even though he is sitting in his living room, by the end of the story, he doesn’t feel like he is “inside anything.” The narrator has learned to see things from a new perspective, one in which he is no longer afraid of or ignorant about blindness. He has gained a new understanding and empathy for those who are blind, and his views on life have been changed forever. The narrator has shown that he is willing to change, and it is at this point in the story that he begins to live a new life.
The dangers of close-mindedness can create the illusion of safety by blocking one’s ability to see possibilities. “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver shows the narrator’s ignorance of blindness and how his lack of understanding ultimately led him through a path of self-discovery and a better understanding of what it means to be blind. Close-mindedness is a dangerous thing because the person who suffers from it is unaware of their own naivety and the consequences that will result. In “Cathedral,” the narrator admits that all he knows about blindness “Comes from the movies” (Carver, 5). This demonstrates why his ignorance was so dangerous- he did not explore more information on blindness, and instead relied on something that he knew nothing about. It is this same ignorance that leads him to describe a cathedral as “something to look at on late-night TV” (6). Close-mindedness prevented him from learning enough about blindness to change his perception.
The narrator’s ignorance about blindness eventually leads him to believe that the blind man is only pretending to be blind. The narrator had been married to a woman named Amy at one point, but she left him because he was too distant and cold. He found that she was having an affair with another man, and he took on the role of a “vengeful husband” (7) by getting into a fight with Amy’s lover while they were driving. The narrator’s anger drives him to chase the other car until it crashes into a tree, killing both occupants of the vehicle instantly. It is while the narrator is in an alcohol-induced blackout that he discovers his wife has left him for good because he would never get better.
He let the smoke dribble from his mouth”. This phrase shows that the narrator was unaware of the effect that his actions had on others. He did not see the effects of his own decisions, nor did he realize how wrong and cruel he was being. The narrator refused to seek help or take responsibility for his actions, which ultimately led him back into drinking. “He [the narrator] stopped thinking” (6). Taking on the role of being a “vengeful husband” cost him everything in life and took away all his ability to accept responsibility for himself. The narrator was blind to what he needed from others and from himself. He was blinded by all the “scenes he lived for, the things that filled his head” (6). This phrase clearly demonstrates how the narrator had lost his ability to think for himself and live in reality. In order to be content with being blind, he had to stop thinking and give up on what was important to him. The narrator ignored his wife and son, as well as any responsibilities he had as a husband and father. He was unable to face what needed
to be done or accept the consequences of his own actions. The narrator suffered a loss of sight, but it was not until he lost his ability to see that he lost sight of himself. He was “a man without a center” (6). The narrator was unable to accept the abuse of his wife and son due to his inability to see. He did not have the ability to recognize that he had a responsibility as a father and husband, or that he needed help from others. He lost sight of himself, which culminated in the loss of sight of his family because he was no longer able to accept responsibility for them. He lost sight of what
was important in life and it cost him everything. The narrator did not care about his son or wife, as long as he had songs on the radio or something light on television. His drinking allowed him to avoid any responsibilities and allowed him to escape reality. It was simply easier for him to drink, because he had no idea what he was doing to his family or the world around him. “He went on–went down deeper and deeper in misery, not knowing that any of it was real and not knowing how to get out” (6). He drank whatever he could find, regardless of its reputation or quality. Even so, the narrator did not care about what others thought of him. His attitude in “Cathedral” demonstrates that he didn’t care about anything because he had no vision and could not see what was really happening to him.
The narrator’s lack of concern for himself led him back into drinking after his wife left him. “So we kept on with it” (6). By using the
impersonal “we,” the narrator shows that he no longer cares about himself. He has given up on life, so his wife and son are forced to simply go along with him. They do not force him to stop drinking; instead, they continue to live a life of “drinking and fighting” (6) with him. In a sense, he is killing them, because they are not able to fight back or escape from what
they were forced into by the narrator. By giving up his will to live and going back into drinking, the narrator has lost sight of what is important in life.
The narrator truly learns to see things from a new perspective once he loses his sight. The narrator’s spiritual awareness comes from losing something that is important to him. “He felt suddenly as if he were being carried down some long, dark, cool tunnel” (7). The narrator realizes that there are things out there that are bigger than him and will continue to exist after he is gone. He sees that everything in this world has a purpose and that there is truth out there about what one has to do in life. The narrator realizes that life does not have any purpose if one does not see the way things really are. It is only when the narrator loses his sight that he gains a spiritual awareness of life. This spiritual awareness is the only thing that could have been gained from losing his sight, because he only understands life in terms of the important things and how to get them. The narrator gains a new appreciation for life, because he sees what is important in it. “He saw that he didn’t need eyes to see that” (8). The narrator goes back into drinking after losing his wife, but this time he starts to gain a spiritual awareness of his own life. Without a wife or son around any longer, the narrator has no reason not to be able to accept what he did wrong. He is finally able to see all the mistakes that he made and begin to accept responsibility for them. While being in a state of self-induced blindness, the narrator does not realize how much he is hurting everyone around him. He is blind to himself, which results in him hurting his wife and son. He was blind to what life would be like without them, so he went back into drinking. The narrator was able to see how much he was hurting his family by going back into drinking. He realizes that he missed out on all the good things in life because of his inability to see and deal with reality. Once the narrator starts gaining a spiritual awareness of life, he realizes that there are greater things going on behind the scenes than anything that appears in front of him.