Assessment Description
As a mental health worker, it is essential to understand the family systems: Individuals and their roles and boundaries. This assignments will help you understand how to analyze a family system.
Access and complete the Family Dynamics and Systems Worksheet 3.
While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
This assignment uses a scoring guide. Please review the scoring guide prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
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MHW-512 Family Dynamics and Systems Worksheet 3

As a mental health worker, it is essential to understand the family systems: Individuals and their roles and boundaries. This assignments will help you understand how to analyze a family system.
Cite two to four sources (in addition to the textbook) to support your answers.
After viewing the Whats Eating Gilbert Grape film and reading the Whats Eating Gilbert Grape Case Study, answer the following prompts:

Explain what is meant by a parentified child. (50-75 words):

Describe a family system that contributes to a parentified child. (100-150 words):

Explain an example of a parentified child in the film Whats Eating Gilbert Grape. What were some of the issues this child had to face? How did this child handle the issues? Explain the parental effect on this child (150-200 words):

After reading “The Four Horseman: Criticism, Contempt, Defensiveness, and Stonewalling,” by Lisitsa, from The Gottsman Institute, answer the following prompts:

Explain the Four Horseman communication styles in relation to parenting by describing each and providing an example (75-100 words each):

Criticism:

Contempt:

Defensiveness:

Stonewalling:

Explain what is meant by pursuer-distancer dynamics in couples:

Describe what the pursuer-distancer looks like in a couple. (50-75 words).

Provide an example of a pursuer-distancer you know (50-75 words):

Recommend ways to break the pursuer-distancer pattern (75-100 words):

Next, list some of the parenting dynamics and challenges of the following parenting types (75-100 words each):

Married parents:

Single parents:

Divorced parents:

Step parents:

Same-sex parents:

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Scoring Guide

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The worksheet fully explains what is meant by a parentified child in the film What’s Eating Gilbert Grape.

0/10

The worksheet fully describes a family system that contributes to a parentified child in the film What’s Eating Gilbert Grape.

0/10

The worksheet fully explains example of a parentified child in the film What’s Eating Gilbert Grape.
In addition, the worksheet fully explains some of the issues the child had to face, how he/she handled the issues, and the parental effect on the child.

0/10

The worksheet fully explains the Four Horseman communication styles (Criticism, Contempt, Defensiveness, and Stonewalling) in relation to parenting by describing each and providing an example.

0/10

The worksheet fully describes what the pursuer-distancer looks like in a couple.

0/10

The worksheet fully provides an example of a pursuer-distancer the student knows.

0/10

The worksheet fully recommends ways to break the pursuer-distancer pattern.

0/10

The worksheet fully explains some of the parenting dynamics and challenges of the following parenting types:
Married parents
Single parents
Divorced parents
Step parents
Same-sex parents

0/20

Total

0/90

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