Case Assignment: You Examine A Family Ordered To Seek Treatm ✓ Solved

Case assignment: You examine a family ordered to seek treatm

Case assignment: You examine a family ordered to seek treatment after a plea bargain. A couple in their 40s is accused of exploiting the wife's elderly mother.

The case details describe financial exploitation, medical neglect, and coercive control within the home, culminating in hospital involvement and law enforcement notification. As the marriage and family therapist, you are asked to prepare a 4-6 page paper addressing core clinical questions about the elderly woman’s situation, the intergenerational dynamics, and your therapeutic approach going forward.

In this assignment, you should:

1. Discuss the issue from the elderly woman's perspective.

2. Discuss how the psychosocial theories of aging could have informed her decision to move in with her daughter and her husband and that ultimately resulted in her "tolerating" her son-in-law's behavior.

3. Explore age-related changes in health status that may have contributed to the elderly woman's decisions.

4. Explore the intergenerational dynamics at work in this case study.

5. Consider legal/ethical issues inherent in working with this family.

6. Describe your approach to working with the family unit.

Paper For Above Instructions

References

  • American Psychological Association. (2017). Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct.
  • Lachs, M. S., & Pillemer, K. A. (2004). Elder abuse: A public health perspective. New England Journal of Medicine, 350(1), 1-10.
  • National Institute on Aging. (2020). Elder abuse and neglect: What you can do. https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/elder-abuse
  • Carstensen, L. L. (1992). Social and emotional patterns in aging: Why elders seek meaningful relationships. (Theoretical overview; see Carstensen et al. for socioemotional selectivity theory.)
  • Case theoretical foundation: Erikson, E. H. (1950). Childhood and Society. W. W. Norton & Company.
  • Cumming, E., & Henry, W. (1961). The process of disengagement in aging. Aging & Society, 1(4), 385-403.
  • Atchley, R. C. (1999). A continuity theory of aging. Generations, 23(2), 54-58.
  • National Center on Elder Abuse. (2020). Elder abuse: What is it and what to do. https://ncea.acl.gov/
  • World Health Organization. (2011). Violence prevention: Elder abuse. https://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/violence/activities/elder_abuse/en/
  • Project Management Institute. (2012). PMI ethical decision-making framework.

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