Running head: VALUES, VISION, MISSION, & GOALS
A Case Study: VALUES, VISION, MISSION, & GOALS
Liberty University
Running head: VALUES, VISION, MISSION, & GOALS
Name: Autrie (42 yoa) and Joann (43 yoa) Ceauxx
Dates of Interviews: 10-30-2020
Evaluator: Jasmon L. Cox
Case Study on Marital Conflict
Marital and Family History:
Autrie and Joann Ceauxx are in an interracial marriage and have been in that relationship for five
years. Autrie grew up in a small town outside of Memphis, Tennessee in a single parent
household yearly income of eighteen thousand dollars a year. Autrie played two sports in high
school, both basketball and football. Autrie is the oldest of three siblings. His mother died in his
early twenties and Autrie has never seen or known his father.
Raised by a single parent father in South Georgia just north of Warner Robins, Georgia,
Joann is the second born of five. Her father, a retired Federal Law enforcement officer, moved
from Valdosta to Warner Robins, Georgia with new orders to work on an engineering contract for
a military base. She played basketball and softball in high school.
Both graduated and received scholarships to their favorite school. While in college at the
University of Alabama, Joann played softball and Autrie played football. The two met through
mutual friends and began a relationship that would later end because of graduation. Both went
on separate career paths initially but reconnected during a recruiting seminar in Colorado Springs
a few years after college finished. Joann met Autrie in their sixth year while working for the
Department of Justice began to date publicly.
Employment: Autrie works as a Unit Manager and Joan is a Warden for the Department of
Justice.
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Church Involvement: Both are active members and have regularly attended for ten years.
Joann and Autrie are very involved in re-entry and addiction counseling at church and they
attend small group consulting for corrections or prison counseling.
Presenting problems: (1) Combat exposure, racial tension and withdraw over injustice and
protest misunderstanding in social news
History of Problems: Joann had never told Autrie prior to their marriage the humiliation she and
her father faced. With all of what God has placed in her, she chose to forgive and move forward
but her soul and mind felt for years that due to her ethnicity/race, she had to be more than a
woman as her father had to be more than a man the next person to be human. Joann had seen her
father go through many things as a single father with discrimination though he was in law
enforcement. Whether it was at work, church, or in the community, she saw her African
American father strive to do the right things, walk with humility, and exemplify Christ the best
he could when raising five bi-racial children in South Georgia after their mother of European
color died. Joan has reached a breaking point and her spouse is having a difficult time
understanding.
Values: Joann and Autrie describe their values related to marriage is a way that they believe that
their love/commitment to the Lord begins the core to them having a true decision to be
committed to one another on a journey to last forever. That will be the foundation for their
marriage, family, preventing divorce, growing finances, and growing as future parents. It will
help with aiding one another in their sexual appetites, humility, and patience.
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Vision: Joann and Autrie envision themselves in two years in talking more clearly about racial
issues from their past and in the future.
Mission: Joann and Autrie promise to always have each other's backs, to love deeply and
passionately, to keep inwardly focused, and to peacefully confront people or ideas that might hurt
the marriage. Our mission is to provide a loving, supportive, and safe atmosphere for one
another in marriage, friends, family, and future children. To accomplish that mission, Autrie and
Joann set the following new goals.
Goal to Understand and Discuss confidentiality, being an interracial couple can be difficult at
times by virtue of the fact that we deal with bias and discrimination in our day to day lives.
Ideally, love should have no bounds in this regard. However, we are dealing with reality and
reality is that others may harbor negativity about you two. You might also run into a conflict
between you two when asserting your values that are based on your own racial or cultural
identity. There are strategies to help you better handle what comes your way when you are in an
interracial marriage
Goal to Heal, some need to understand that white people needed to heal from racism, slavery, or
discrimination too. All three, racism, discrimination, and slavery, have been a curse to some
people in white communities as well as to the blacks. It paints honest, sincere, and loving white
people as cruel and unsensual; their sons as violent and licentious and their daughters as
contaminated, wretched, or liars called “Karen.”
Goal of the Exercise
Running head: VALUES, VISION, MISSION, & GOALS
1. To help the couple listen to their past common racial purposes.
2. To help put together a reminder of the purpose of their unity and increase awareness of
triggers for both partners.
3. To help them understand their ethnic roles for their marriage so they have realistic
expectations.
These goals are needed for the two of us to understand what it takes for both of us to properly
heal, communicate, compromise, sacrifice and balancing what is best for us and for our marriage
to one another.
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