Week 6 Blog Post

The article title I  found is "Blaming by Naming Battered Women and the Epidemic of Codependence" by Phyllis B. Frank, MA and Gail Kadison Golden, EdD, MSW. I retrieved this article from: http://www.goldenwrites.com/blaming.htm and the publication date is Accepted October 17, 1990 and Reprinted from Social Work Volume 37, Number 1 January 1992 Issue 1.

Having said all that the summary is as follows:

The article is talking about codependency in women of substance abusers/alcoholics. Saying that women who choose to stay and deal with the abuse and neglect of an unequal relationship are codependant because they need the dependency of the partner needing them. They also stated that this could be an affect of of these women growing up in an abusive/neglectful paerntal environment.

They did also say that we need to be careful labeling wome that are battered as codependent when we tell them it is not their fault that they are abused; we do not want them to feel that because they are codependant that it is their fault or maybe the ones who choose to leave are not the ones who should be labeled as the codependant women.

I believe the audience of this article could be anyone who comes across it, although I think it was intended for people in the human services field as an informative article back when they started doing these kinds of researches.
I figure this because of the words they used in this article as you would have to have some kind of educational background in this field to truly understand what they are talking about in this specific article.

The workplace relevance I feel is that I will be dealing with people from all types of backgrounds including alot of codependant people. So it is a good thing for me to be able to recognize this and help them thorugh their struggles.

I think the article is a little more specific to my field than any of the blogs that I have been finding, maybe because of the high confidentiality their is in my field or maybe because more people use Twitter now.


The credibility
The purpose
The audience

I think these are the three most important because formality doesn't really matter in blog format from what I have been seeing. People do not pay too much attention to their spelling or punctuation...which by the way is highly irritating! Credibility is high though because if they don't know what they are saying then that's just a load of crap! The audience is important also because if someone with a lower educational level reads a doctoral level blod they are not going to know what the heck they are reading. Last but not leas the purpose is important because that is making their whole point telling the reader the point of the blod without purpose they might just as well shut up!