Registered Practical Reflection: Children’s Aid Society and the Meyer Family These past six weeks of placement have widened my eyes and perspective to many things, including the complexity of foster family’s. While in the midst of my placement at the London-Middlesex Children’s Aid Society (CAS), I was able to choose a family in which my partner and I would attend their home at four various point in time in order to conduct a family assessment and work through any health-related issues they may be facing. The family who my partner and I chose to work with will be reviewed in the reflection as I will examine the experiences of my first interaction with the Meyer family and their newest foster Sophie at CAS. For confidentiality reasons, the
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Our community advisor helped us with this process and found a family she believed would be willing to help us gain community-based experience. One week later, this family had an appointment at the CAS’s medical clinic and therefore, my partner and I were able to meet them for the first time. On this day, the Meyer family’s newest foster, Sophie, was visiting with her biological mother. As they also had an appointment at the medical clinic at a later time, we waited with the matriarch and patriarch of the Meyer family and discussed them being a potential family for our home visits. Once they agreed the home visits, we took them aside and developed a family genogram. Moreover, as I had not been in previous contact with the family, I had to draw on my previous experiences of working with foster parents. These experiences taught me that foster parents are held to a very high standard of care and that they truly love helping children who have come from an unstable home, among other things. I was thereby able to pull from this when considering the Meyer family for home visits. Additionally, my role as a student nurse has expanded from this and other experiences of working with foster parents because I learned I must be one of the many people ensuring the foster parents a maintaining a high levels of care as well as …show more content…
While completing this complex genogram, I noticed that both parents are very caring, strong, and special people. This is because it takes someone with these characteristics to be able to foster children and as the Meyer family has fostered three other children, in addition to Sophie, these characteristics shined brightly. Another aspect I noticed is that the Meyer family is very complex. They are not a typical nuclear family in which all of the children are biological (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2016). The Meyer family has a total of eight children, which is made up of one adopted, three biological, and four foster children. I was amazed by the complexity of the family and felt elated that I was able to work with a family that is made up of multiple members from a diverse
Our community advisor helped us with this process and found a family she believed would be willing to help us gain community-based experience. One week later, this family had an appointment at the CAS’s medical clinic and therefore, my partner and I were able to meet them for the first time. On this day, the Meyer family’s newest foster, Sophie, was visiting with her biological mother. As they also had an appointment at the medical clinic at a later time, we waited with the matriarch and patriarch of the Meyer family and discussed them being a potential family for our home visits. Once they agreed the home visits, we took them aside and developed a family genogram. Moreover, as I had not been in previous contact with the family, I had to draw on my previous experiences of working with foster parents. These experiences taught me that foster parents are held to a very high standard of care and that they truly love helping children who have come from an unstable home, among other things. I was thereby able to pull from this when considering the Meyer family for home visits. Additionally, my role as a student nurse has expanded from this and other experiences of working with foster parents because I learned I must be one of the many people ensuring the foster parents a maintaining a high levels of care as well as …show more content…
While completing this complex genogram, I noticed that both parents are very caring, strong, and special people. This is because it takes someone with these characteristics to be able to foster children and as the Meyer family has fostered three other children, in addition to Sophie, these characteristics shined brightly. Another aspect I noticed is that the Meyer family is very complex. They are not a typical nuclear family in which all of the children are biological (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2016). The Meyer family has a total of eight children, which is made up of one adopted, three biological, and four foster children. I was amazed by the complexity of the family and felt elated that I was able to work with a family that is made up of multiple members from a diverse