The Pursuit of Happyness



The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)

As the social worker, what symptoms do you note in this family?

The life of this family was disturbed by many of the social and personal disorganization to perform normal in the social setting of the United States. There are social statuses in the family that are on the verge loosing the function of the family due to economic liabilities and construction of a pattern for life that can help them change their current situation (Dargis .M, 2006). The family is even struggling for even the basic necessities that are quite well defining the situation under financial fulfillment.

The family is struggling for food as it can be seen in one of the introducing scenes that the juices that were left in the glasses on the dining table are being poured back into the jug for further use. Both of the parents are working long hours to fulfill those basic requirements of shelter and food along with taxes and parking tickets to prove that they are responsible citizens like everyone else who is not faced up with such issues.

What is some strength for this family?

The father is constantly playing the role of a dedicated parent and teacher providing his son the exposure to develop to be successful in his life. “Never get tired” behavior of the Chris Gardner describes his explicit personality to reach the goals and targeted aims that he has set for himself and his family. Despite having criticized often by his wife who is not ready to understand his struggle, he continues with the directive of getting out something out of the misery he is facing time after time.

The father (Will Smith) expresses one of basic and most strong strength that without being dependent on education, color or class one can achieve social and financial liberty to earn and manage a social life with his family (Fuchs .C, 2007). The mother in this family is also working out of her capacity to provide those basic necessities to her family when she finds her husband not earning enough money to supply the needs of the household.

Discuss role of boundaries, family roles, rules and interactional pattern in this family?

There are boundaries set in every social aspect in order to carry out in a society where limitation are justified with or without individual comprises. Within this family, the role of boundaries can be examined extensively due to the social condition of Chris who is avoiding situation where he has to pay for it. The family (father and the son) were forced out of their home for not paying the rent of the apartment for around four months. Mostly, this family cannot operate due to the phenomenon of social existence because of the hard work that is not turning their circumstances around.

The role of the family itself has involved a number of distinctive interests that can force to assume the luxury of living that is missing from the family (Dargis ...