Family Counseling Problem Appraisal: How Should a Counselor Assess a Single-Parent-Led Family Using the Problem-Appraisal Checklist for the Custodial and Non-Custodial Parent?
No chart can give a full determinacy of any family's essential competency, whether led by a single parent or by two parents. Thus, when assessing a single parent-led family a counselor must be especially careful of seeming non-judgmental towards such families deemed non-standard by society, such as single-parent families, and not use an assessment chart as a kind of laundry list of competency. A counselor, regardless of his or her personal approaches, must use any problem-appraisal schema in a helpful rather than a harmful fashion. The aim of counseling is to empower both the custodial and non-custodial parent to move on in their respective family, personal, and professional lives, not hold them to unrealistic standards.When first assessing both parents, the counselor should also remember that in addition to the traditional nuclear family, a single parent could still competently lead a household. However, the family may need some extra help in getting star
Thus, after an initial appraisal is done, the counselor must see if the single parent has re-establish herself-or himself as head of the new household. Is there unmet economic or emotional needs? Is the non-custodial parent a member of a 'blended' family, now, and is he or she taking steps to ensure the children are still part of his or her life, even if he or she is exploring new forms of sexuality, is remarried, or has moved to a different area? Does the non-custodial parent have emotional support structures to ensure his functionality during this potentially difficult time? If he or she does not, this may also affect the children, as will shifts in the custodial parent's living arrangements and economic circumstances. ted anew. Also, the single-parent family may not have begun as a traditional family-a remarried couple may have formed a family that is now breaking up and even a co-habiting heterosexual couple or the gay or lesbian couple could have done
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