The Culture of Family Violence

Family Violence
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May 30, 2022
Understanding the differences in cultural traditions and principles in family relationships is essential for any clinician. It allows them to appreciate better the facts surrounding the patient’s case and use them to provide holistic treatment. In this article, I would like to focus on the concept of family violence in relation to our own culture.
Family Violence
I am a Hispanic, and family violence is considered a crime in my nation and the community surrounding me. Although parents here tend to chastise their children for wrongdoing, this is not considered violence but rather an act of discipline. In our culture, they say that if your parents' shoes have never struck you, you have never experienced childhood. Violence against a spouse is unquestionably violent and should be reported to the police. And, if a parent's method of disciplining a kid is excessive, it might be scrutinized and classified as violence. I can state that our society views family violence differently than other cultures; we believe some discipline to be natural and necessary for children's development.
In our country, the rate of abuse and violence is extensively distributed in different types. There is domestic abuse, physical abuse, technological abuse, and emotional abuse, to name some. But there's not much reported for a more specific type like family abuse. However, some family abuses are happening in the country. The news does not cover it, or people’s rates and complaints are meager compared to other countries CITATION Gab18 \l 1033 (Gabriela Barajas-Gonzalez, et al., 2018).
With that said, this paper’s primary goal is to identify how a family therapist could bring up the issues of family abuse and violence to solve them or give them comfort. But to talk about this issue, a therapist needs to be careful not to cross any boundary of privacy in the family that finds that kind of topic sensitive; they must slowly earn their trust for the family to openly talk about issues concerning abuse and violence in their household. Therapists are known to be good at their word because they seek to find the best answer to a person’s problem through worded advice and prescription. And if applicable, activities that help the family fix its problem should also be done.
In a scenario where a therapist wants to open another topic far from the family’s primary concern, a smooth transition is needed; the following question of the therapist should slowly lead to the goal topic of family and violence. The best way for a therapist to bring up such a problem topic is by slowly leading the conversation into how the family is doing, then slowly bringing up the cases of family abuse and ...