Family Alcohol Abuse

Family Alcohol Abuse

Brief Introduction to the Report:

The specific stressor we focused on in developing our FCS and related threads posted for our CRCP week was alcoholism in the family. The FCS family consisted of a 46 year old mother, 48 year old father, 21 year old brother, and a 17 year old sister. The ethnicity and cultural background of the family was predominately African American. This family has an alcoholic family identity. Although it was difficult for the mother to decrease her alcohol consumption to nothing, because she has a close-knit supportive family she knew she was able to do it, and concentrate on her family and repair all the wounds.

During our CRCP week we posted the FCS and threads related to: (a) our interviews and similarities and differences in responses from our interviews, (b) our summary of outside research and web literature we reviewed in looking at this stressor and family crisis. We also came up with “questions to consider”, in order to get the ball and discussions rolling in the discussion board, we received great insight, discussion, and opinions from these questions.

Group Dynamics:

After we first received notice of the topic for our CRCP project, I have to admit that we did procrastinate and we did not contact each other right away. I was the first to contact my two group members via email. I emailed each member to see exactly where everyone’s head were at and ideas that we had about our CRCP. We started to discuss how we would conduct and present our report. About one week before the report was due we broke down how we would create the FCS and we discussed what parts everyone would do and just made sure we had everything covered. About 4 days later we discussed our interviews that had we each had completed. We emailed each other our interviews and all the information that went along with it.

Candice, Su-Yin, and I were able to work together well in distributing all the work load and we had no problem in deciding which direction we wanted to go with our FCS. Our FCS was based on the readings as well as my current family situation. I sent the draft to each group member to see if there was anything that needed to be changed, added, or removed, and we made sure that we were satisfied with the ending results. I have to admit that it was more challenging doing the work as a team via email rather than seeing yourself in class on a regular basis and discussing the report in person. Overall though, I thought this was a great and different working experience in communicating via email. The CRCP was definitely a team effort.

The Interview:

The interview I did was described in interview #2 of