Vignette Analysis Of Childhood Alcoholic Family

Vignette Analysis II
Positive Families (Page 117):
Families often have a profound effect, good or bad, on an individual’s functioning throughout his or her life. Growing up Joe was left to care for his 3 younger siblings when his Dad alcoholic father would disappear for days and his passive-depressed mother would stay in bed. While in some circumstances children (optimum of three) correspond with increased life satisfaction. Joe’s parents were obviously unprepared for the demands of raising children and ran away, Joes Dad to the bottle and Joes mother to her bed, leaving Joe to raise three sibling a task Joe was obvious unprepared to perform due to his young age. For Joe’s parents, and Joe himself, children added little to nothing to life

It will be important when considering Joes level of positive health to not just consider the absence of disease, but as the cumulative effects of three measures: 1) biological indicators that include measures of physical processes such as cardiac and pulmonary health; 2) Subjective experience of well-being, such as; optimism, hopefulness, vigor, and vitality; 3) Functional measures that can include an assessment on how effectively Joe is accomplishing his daily activities and his adjustment to getting older. Obviously, Joe has weaknesses in most of these measures and is therefore suffering from negative emotions and unhealthy behaviors that are leading to his ineffective functioning and unhelpful interpersonal skills (Compton & Hoffman,

On one side, there is a focus on the external environment, physical condition and behaviors that promote health, such as exercise and eating well. On the other side, there is a tendency to view the world through psychological processes, such as; expectations, point of view (negative or positive) and belief systems. Unfortunately, when Joe is faced with stressors in life he falls back on an unhealthy interpretation of the world. He is interpreting his present daily struggles with the eyes of child that was left on his own to raise three children. His interpretation of his daily hassles and struggles are negatively affected by his abandonment and he is left in fear and worry about a world, along with interpersonal relationships, that he cannot hope to control (Compton & Hoffman,