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    Case Studies For Dysfunctional Family

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    1. This case involves a mother who enjoys having her sick daughter home from school. However, when the daughter recovers, she claims to still be sick to continue getting attention from her mother. The parents' argument over this causes anxiety in the daughter, who then throws up, allowing her to stay home. This is an example of a detouring triangle dysfunctional family dynamic. 2. This case involves a mother who requires her children to eat specific foods in set amounts. The older, compliant son follows this rule, while the younger, temperamental son refuses. This causes battles over eating that develop into an eating disorder for the younger son. This dynamic shows a stable coalition between the mother and older son.

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    1. This case involves a mother who enjoys having her sick daughter home from school. However, when the daughter recovers, she claims to still be sick to continue getting attention from her mother. The parents' argument over this causes anxiety in the daughter, who then throws up, allowing her to stay home. This is an example of a detouring triangle dysfunctional family dynamic. 2. This case involves a mother who requires her children to eat specific foods in set amounts. The older, compliant son follows this rule, while the younger, temperamental son refuses. This causes battles over eating that develop into an eating disorder for the younger son. This dynamic shows a stable coalition between the mother and older son.

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    Family Dysfunctions

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    1. This case involves a mother who enjoys having her sick daughter home from school. However, when the daughter recovers, she claims to still be sick to continue getting attention from her mother. The parents' argument over this causes anxiety in the daughter, who then throws up, allowing her to stay home. This is an example of a detouring triangle dysfunctional family dynamic. 2. This case involves a mother who requires her children to eat specific foods in set amounts. The older, compliant son follows this rule, while the younger, temperamental son refuses. This causes battles over eating that develop into an eating disorder for the younger son. This dynamic shows a stable coalition between the mother and older son.

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    Case Studies For Dysfunctional Family

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    Tricia Hyazinth Mendoza
    1. This case involves a mother who enjoys having her sick daughter home from school. However, when the daughter recovers, she claims to still be sick to continue getting attention from her mother. The parents' argument over this causes anxiety in the daughter, who then throws up, allowing her to stay home. This is an example of a detouring triangle dysfunctional family dynamic. 2. This case involves a mother who requires her children to eat specific foods in set amounts. The older, compliant son follows this rule, while the younger, temperamental son refuses. This causes battles over eating that develop into an eating disorder for the younger son. This dynamic shows a stable coalition between the mother and older son.

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    Case Studies for Dysfunctional Family

    1. A child stays home for a week with a flu. Her mother, who is lonely and bored, is now happy to
    have her at home. When the child has recovered, she protested and says she is still sick. Her father
    says that her mother is spoiling her and that she must go to school. The argument raises the child’s
    anxiety and throws up then allowed to stay home.

    This case would fall under the Detouring triangle. Detouring occurs when parents, rather
    than directing anger or criticism toward each other, focus the negativity on the child and the
    parent-child conflict thus serves to distract from the tension in the marital subsystem. In this case,
    the mother was already feeling lonely and bored even before the child got sick. These feelings
    made the mother to focus on her child to make her forget about those feelings when in fact the
    feeling of loneliness and boredom should be addressed between the parents alone and not
    involving the child. But since they were not talking about it, they focused instead to their sick
    child. But since the coalition between the parents are stressful for the child, it made her even
    sicker.

    2. Mrs. A believed that children should eat specific kinds and amounts of food. When her son did
    not do this, she punished him. The oldest child, a compliant boy with a good appetite, responded
    by eating in the way she required. The younger child, however, was temperamentally more of a
    fighter had an uncertain appetite. He refused to eat. Mrs. A continued to apply the same approach
    and the result was a pitched battle and eventually an eating disorder.

    In this case, the mother and the oldest child agreed on something which is to eat specific
    kinds and amounts of food while on the other hand, the younger child refused to do so. Since the
    mother and the oldest child are on to the same decision contradicting to the younger child, this
    case would fall under stable coalition.

    3. A symptomatic teenage daughter appeared to a psychologist for her depressive symptoms with
    self – injurious behaviors. She then disclosed her family set up, with her father sleeping on another
    bedroom as her mother often stays late with her lover. Her parents are unaware that she has full
    knowledge of their family situation since her elementary years.

    This case would also fall under detouring. The relationship of the parents was headed
    away from each one of them but instead of dealing with it, they focused on their daughter and
    tried to hide it from her to protect her feelings. But the parents doesn’t know that their daughter
    already knows about it and is making her have depressive symptoms.

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