Reality Therapy In My Family

The genogram provided me an opportunity review my relationships with my immediate and extended families. The theory I would use with my family would be Reality Therapy because of the cognitive distortion we possessed going up in the household. Despite the negative cultural influences my parents were exposed to growing up. Corey (2015) discussed how individuals are not the cause for a particular family dysfunction. The cumulative effect of parents cultural experiences prohibited them from trusting Caucasians. My father was born in lady Island South Carolina and my mother was from Haskell Oklahoma a raised on a Native American reservation. Both were abandoned by their maternal parents. Both of their mothers died at a very young age. However, their father’s relationships were sporadic. I never met my dad’s father (Joe) and I visited my mother’s father (Calvin) a few times before his death.
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My parents’ cognitive distortion that Caucasians (law enforcement and neighbors) were construed as threats to our family solidarity. This was due in part by my family’s complex historical and social dynamics. I learned my cultural diversity still affects me and how I interact with society. Because reality therapy is adaptable and it can be applied to negate several aspects of my life. Particularly, how I perceive my work and relationship with others. Due to my multiple generational ideologies within a family unit my sisters lived through era’s following World War II i.e. inner city race riots, and civil rights movement, Martin Luther King assassination, Black Power, etcetera. This intense period of our history had a major impact on my siblings and contributed to my family ideology growing up. Reality therapy offers a platform to acknowledge the environmental constraints of the