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    Intervention Maria’s presenting problem involves coming out as a lesbian to her homophobic extended family members. This client’s inability to comfortably come out calls for an approach that is not only goal-oriented in nature, but simultaneously culturally component in its approach to minorities. Solution-focused brief therapy is a therapeutic intervention that emphasizes formulating solution strategies for an individual’s problems opposed to discussing the origin of the problems themselves (de

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    Alder. I don't say this quote because I think I’m a big phony all of the time, I say it because I recognize that there are parts of me that are phony, so some people never see my true self. I am phony around some adults, for me, that means my extended family, my friend’s parents, and my coaches. Around these people I change the way I talk or the way I act, to show a personality that is not naturally mine. On the other hand, I feel like most people are the least phony while they are around their friends

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    Natalia Sarkisian, “The Color of Family Ties: Race, Class, Gender, and Extended Family Involvement”, overviews the differences between the class, gender, and extended family involvement to Latino, Blacks, and Whites family. They researched that the so-called minorities stay close to their families. They prefer living in large extended families to provide each other with financial support and general family support. One thing they learned is that extended families have nothing to do with ethnicity

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    In Naomi Gerstel and Natalia Sarkisian’s published study “The Color of Family Ties: Race, Class, Gender, and Extended Family Involvement,” which appeared in Stephanie Coontz’s American Families: A Multicultural Reader, Gerstel and Sarkisian present their professional opinions of the popular belief in America that White families have stronger kinship ties than those of minority families, namely Black and Latino/a. Gerstel and Sarkisian are professors of sociology at the University of Massachusetts

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    Chios Research Paper

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    Seventeen dreadful hours in a plane is what it takes to go from Cleveland, Ohio to Chios, Greece. The 747 commercial plane to the mainland is heaven compared to the sinister, much smaller, propeller plane to Chios. The tiny coffin holds maybe 30 people tops and feels a lot like being inside a tin rattle.Landing after two hours of unsettling turbulence awakens thankful thoughts in a person.Compared to the dark dungeon of the plane, everything outside is bright and full of life. The island Chios is

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    community. This report will investigate Type 2 Diabetes in secondary students more specifically Indigenous students and their extended families. The report will focus on how vulnerable Indigenous people are to developing Type

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    McEwan Family Strengths: 1. Celebrating church milestones such as baby blessings, baptisms, primary, scouts, and young men/young women achievements. All extended family, the aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents come together to celebrate these. This strengths is similar to many ethnic cultures. The Hispanic culture has La familia which is extended family of grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. This extension means that all events such as church events included the extended family (1). This

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    joint family

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    of a society i.e. family. A family is a set of human beings related to each other in a non-professional manner, giving rise to a concrete cohesion within the family. Love, care, and affection are the most prominent human values, which are responsible for maintaining these bonds of relationships withina family. Typically, a nuclear family may be conceived as a unit consisting of acouple, children, and grandparents, and pets. In India however, there exists a special kind of family structure that really

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    that my family did not feel or act like family, there just seemed to be a deep-down connection or piece of the puzzle that was absent. This absence established a newly found interested in history and genealogy. I wanted to know where my biological ancestors originated and the historical events they experienced. I faced an engrained desire to obtain my biological connections which so many of my friends and family members felt with their relatives. My initial focus when understanding my family was based

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    Industrialisation on the Structure of the Family The Industrial Revolution was from 1750's - 1850's, which had four main effects. One was the Economic system becoming industrial from agriculture, the second was Mechanisation meaning production in factories becoming more efficient, the third was Urbanisation and the fourth was population explosion - low mobility rate and higher birth rate. Tallcott Parsons (1950's) believed that the extended family in pre Industrial Britain

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