N480 Family Assessment Ted Lasso by Winfred Hwang

WINFRED HWANG N480 THE LASSO FAMILY

Ted Lasso is a small time college football coach from Kansas hired to coach a professional soccer team in England, named A.F.C. Richmond, despite having no experience coaching soccer.

Introduction

Condition: Panic Attacks

Ted’s panic attacks were inﬂicted due to trauma from his father’s suicide.Ted was 16 years old when he came home from school and opened a door to his father’s body after hearing a loud bang. He called 911, cried to his room, drank a beer, and called his mom letting her know to come home.

When Ted has a panic attack, he experiences shortness of breath, dizziness, blurred vision, and his head starts pounding. At nights, he experiences insomnia and headaches.

Ted’s panic attacks are heightened by the feelings of stress, anxiety, and abandonment. In the show, this includes his divorce, attending funerals, and letting people down. Ted usually does not talk about his feelings. He is always looking on the bright side for others, his go to word is “believe,” yet he tends to be very hard on himself. After multiple panic attacks he decides to ﬁnally open up and make an appointment with the team’s therapist. In a therapy session, Ted Lasso admits that he did not attend his father’s funeral because his dad quit, “he quit on family, he quit on himself”.

Family Overview

Ted Lasso - Ted Lasso is a small time college football coach from Kansas hired to coach a professional soccer team in England, named A.F.C. Richmond, despite having no experience coaching soccer.

Michelle Lasso - Wife and later ex-wife of Ted Lasso as they get divorced in the middle of the series. She gets custody of Henry, their son, because Ted is living in London while she and Henry are living in Kansas.

Henry Lasso - The son of Ted and Michelle Lasso who lives in Kansas, United States. His parents are divorced in the middle of the series and he only talks to his father via Facetime after the divorce because Michelle has custody of him due to Ted living in England.

Duvall’s Development & Family Life Cycle Theory

There are eight stages of the Family Life Cycle and the Lasso family is in the “families with school-age children” stage (Kaakinen, 2018). The show doesn’t speciﬁcally state how old Henry Lasso is but we do know that he is in elementary school. Also, the Lasso family experiences multiple stages of the family life cycle for a divorcing family throughout the show. Ted seems to have the most trouble during the separation phase where he is mourning the loss of the intact family as well as adapting to living apart from his son. Similar to Ted Lasso’s experience as a child where his father committed suicide and left him and his mother alone.

Ted lasso tends not to communicate his feelings

Ted communicates his appreciation and has positive interactions with others (thinking about not telling his dad how much

appreciated

Keeping feelings bottled in results

after

After Ted conﬁdes in his

does not

attacks,

● A strong family unit is composed of a married mother and father ● Men do not express their feelings, Ted goes on like everything is right even when he doesn’t feel that way. Ex: when his wife reveals her feelings, he tells her that he will do what makes her feel better (getting divorced) ● Ted moves from American culture to British culture ● A team family– teammates, coaches, fans ● No religion was speciﬁed Culture & Communication Culture Communication

him.

in panic attacks and decreased mental health. Even

the ﬁrst panic attack Ted

take the time to talk to the therapist

family team (co-coaches) about his panic

one

them runs the story to the tabloids

Family Systems Theory

Family SystemsTheory is an approach to understand and assess families as an organized whole and/or as individuals within family units who form an interactive and interdependent system (Kaakinen, 2018).

Concept 1: All Parts of the SystemAre Interconnected -Ted’s anxiety is worsened after the divorce is finalized but not only does it affectTed but his wife and son.

Concept 2: The Whole Is MoreThan the Sum of Its Parts -The Lasso family is experiencing the stress ofTed leaving Kansas for England and everyone is individually affected in different ways.

Concept 3: All Systems Have Some Form of Boundaries or Borders Between the System and Its Environment - Michelle and her therapist toldTed to give her space, so he took the job in England.

Concept 4: Systems Can Be Further Organized Into SubsystemsThe husband to wife and husband to child subsystems were disrupted whenTed decided to take the managing job in England.

Family Health Interventions

Outcomes

Problem: Anxiety related major change in family (divorce) as evidenced by multiple panic attacks.

Intervention

EncourageTed Lasso to use positive self talk.

Rationale: Reducing negative self-talk and increasing positive self-talk can be beneficial for all types of anxiety (Ackley, 2017).

Outcome:Ted is able to reduce his anxiety through positive self-talk and reduce the number of panic attacks he is having.

Intervention

Encourage Michelle to use empathy to helpTed interpret the anxiety symptoms as normal.

psychological and social support can reduce the symptoms and problems associated with anxiety (Ackley, 2017).

Rationale:

Outcome:Ted will be able to utilize the social support to handle the stressors of being a professional soccer manager.

Intervention

TeachTed and his family the symptoms of anxiety.

Rationale:Teach families to have a general understanding of what is happening to the patient with anxiety and help them to accept assistance to overcome their anxiety (Ackley, 2017).

Outcome:Ted is able to listen to his family and friends to get help from his therapist to improve his coping strategies.

Providing

“

If you care about someone, and you got a little love in your heart, there ain't nothing you can't get through together.”

REFERENCE

Ackley, Betty J., and Gail B. Ladwig. Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: An Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care. Mosby/Elsevier, 2011. Denham, SharonA. Family-Focused Nursing Care. Davis Company, 2016. Kaakinen, Joanna Rowe, et al. Family Health Care Nursing Theory, Practice, and Research. F.A. Davis Company, 2018.

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