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A 3 page paper addressing the importance of family in individual health. The author discusses family theory within the background of a plot scenario from the film “Thirteen” Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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practice nursing encounters a number of societal issues that lie right alongside the primary focus of physical health. Family function, in fact, is often directly related to physical health.
This fact is drilled home in more than one real life encounter. The media too, however, portrays many scenarios when family function has both direct and indirect impact
on health. The movie "Thirteen" is an excellent example of such a portrayal. It illuminates how a young girls self image is adversely affected by a situation that is
largely outside her control and how this degraded self image parallels her spiral downward into drug use, promiscuity, and even self mutilation. "Thirteen"
is a movie about Tracy, a normal young girl whose world begins to spin out of control with her parents divorce. Having to deal with an overly na?ve and
sometimes needy mother and her new boyfriend combines with Tracy being distanced from her father to negatively impact her self image. She resorts to self mutilation as a means
to relieve some of the pain that she feels inside and then, after entering the high-risk taking world of a classmate, she begins using drugs, stealing, experimenting with sex, and
seeking out more radical means of self mutilation. Each of these changes in Tracys life, of course, goes hand in hand with potentially serious health problems. Not only
are her morals slowly being whittled away, she is opening herself to serious harm. Self mutilation and drugs are the most direct avenues of this harm but Tracys sexual
experimentation and infactuation with piercings are of serious concern as well given the potential for disease transmission and out-of-wedlock pregnancy. "Thirteen"
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