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Strengths and Challenges of the different Types of Populations in Family…
Strengths and Challenges of the different Types of Populations in Family Therapy
Military Families (Gladding, Chapter 3)
Strengths
Travel and learn new cultures.
Ability to deal with crises in a positive and effective manner through practice (Gladding, 2019,p. 79).
Possible openness toward God due to intense challenges.
Commitment of family members to the nuclear family as the people they have in common in all of their moves (Gladding, 2019,p. 79).
Challenges
Uncertainty of deployment (p. 59).
Finding support, making adjustments, building friendships in a community (p. 59).
Frequency of moves (p. 59).
Parent Returns from Combat Zone with PTSD, anxiety, depression, substance abuse, relational disorders and physical injury and disability (p. 59).
Nature of work they perform (p. 59).
Single Parent (Gladding, Chapter 4)
Strengths
Children learn responsibility sooner (p. 85).
Resourceful and creative in being frugal (p. 85).
Flexibility with roles and rules; adabtibility (p. 85).
Possible openness toward God due to intense challenges.
God's promise to the fatherless.
Informal; democratic in decision-making (p. 85).
Challenges
Mourning, readjustment and reestablishment of the family life (p. 82).
Solely responsible for care of self and child(ren) (p. 57).
Grief from divorce or death (p. 82).
Martialling resources (p. 84).
Adverse affect on the parent-child relationship due to paretnal absence (p. 84)