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***Please use APA citing (in text and in reference) *** Also Please do not give one line/generic answers!!!! The model I chose was the strategic model.
Crane grew up on a farm in rural Kentucky and lived a life full of transitions and experiences.
Crane's father had only a 10th-grade education, and his mother a sixth-grade education. Crane was the oldest of two children. He attended the local school in his neighborhood. After school, he would come home and help work the farm, complete his homework, and read anything he found around the house or neighborhood. Crane loved reading books about adventures. He was the first in his family to attend college.
After receiving his bachelor's degree in education at the local state university, he taught school in a one-room schoolhouse for four years and then become principal of a high school in Indiana. During this time, he met his future wife, Faith, who was the secretary at the school. They dated for a year and then married. They had one child, a son named Steven. Crane left the rural Midwest to attend Yale University, where he earned his doctorate. He became a professor of anthropology and taught at The Ohio State University until he retired at the age of 60.
Then Crane and Faith bought an abandoned farm comprising several acres in Ohio. They remodeled the farmhouse and settled into farming in the early years of retirement. Crane cleared and thinned the trees on the hills and mountains of his farm. After some time, he stopped working the hillsides and along with his wife and grandchildren planted a large vegetable garden. When he reached 80, he bought a riding tractor. When he could no longer manage the garden, he focused on four large window boxes where he and his wife planted flowers. As his eyesight became more impaired, he started listening to audiobooks.
Faith said Crane never complained about any of his declining aging process changes. Crane approached each new challenge of physical decline by correctly assessing his abilities, investing in a new project and taking pride in his achievements. However, lately he has become more demanding and attempts to engage in activities that require skills he no longer has. When he is unable to accomplish these, he becomes withdrawn and uncommunicative. Faith decided that she needs to come to family therapy with Crane to seek ways to cope with the situation.
As Faith and Crane's therapist, use the model you have chosen for your final project to respond to the following:
How would you join with Faith and Crane?
What types of interventions would you use according to the model?
What would be some goals you would develop with this couple according to the model?
How does culture play a role in this case?