This paper has four topics that need to be addressed. Make sure to be intentional about addressing each topic. You don’t have a lot of space, so be thorough and concise. Provide enough detail to demonstrate that you are reading and understand The Family Crucible.
1. What are systems dynamics that you have observed in the Brice Family across chapters 1-8? Make sure to use correct systems terms from the Nichols text.
2. How might attachment influence the interactions you’ve observed in the Brice Family across chapters 1-8? Please consider marital and parental attachments across multiple generations.
3. How might family life-cycle stage influence the Brice family’s experience of the problem that brings them to therapy? Be specific – show that you have read the crucible text and also that you understand family life cycle concepts.
4. How do the Brice family’s contextual variables (think about the family’s power and privilege in areas like culture, race/ethnicity, language, SES, spiritual-orientation, sexual-orientation) influence their experience of the presenting problem? Compare this to how the therapists’ contextual variables influence their experience of the family and the family’s presenting problem?
5. Explain how considering the influence of client and therapist contextual variables on their experience the presenting problem (like you did in question 4 above) relates to social constructionism.
