Case Study #2 Tameka Footman SOW5341 Social Work Practice Dr. Terrell Brown Mr. James has arrived for his assessment at the Gadsden County Human Services office. His demeanor is somewhat different from the last meeting. He is more reserved today and seems to be open to effective communication. The case manager, Tameka Footman enters the room and greets Mr. James. Mrs. Footman asks Mr. James, how he’s feeling about the session today. Mr. James responds and says that he’s feeling good about it. Mrs. Footman reviews the events that took place last session and asked if there were any questions from the previous meeting. Mr. James says that he doesn’t have any questions are is eager to get started. Mrs. Footman begins the assessment by asking if there was history of substance abuse in the family? Mr. James responds and says that both of his parents used substances when he was a child and that he and his siblings were exposed at a very young age. He says that his parents also used to fight a lot and his father was jailed many times for domestic violence. Mrs. Footman asked if he’d ever used substances. His initial response was “yes, years ago”. Mr. James began to tell me about the altercations that he and the mother had in front of the children. Mr. James implied that the …show more content…
James was redirected back to the assessment, he began to calm down and we continued the assessment. M. James and I continued talking about his past, future and present circumstances. He also reported that he remembers being sexually abused as a child but doesn’t remember details of the attacker but he thinks it was an uncle that assaulted him. As we finished up with the assessment, he reported that he felt s much better talking about the events that had happened in his life and that he knew that he had made some mistakes recently and he just wants his children back. He says that he’s willing to do whatever we need him to do, in order to get is children
Identify and explain the three major sources of conflict and misinterpretations in social work practice: culture-bound values, class bound values, and language variables.
Other background information that must be cleared up concerns history of traumas, domestic violence, housing status, primary usage of drugs, mental health problem in family, cases of hospitalization, treatment, previous usage of medication. All these items can influence current client's condition. Despite, as Meredith’s sister Sarah also has some personal problems, it is necessary to find out the origin of it; Sarah might have personal disorder that is inherited, so Meredith is under the risk to have it.
When asked about her sexual history and sexual knowledge, Rosslynn appeared to be very uncomfortable discussing her inappropriate sexual behavior with the undersigned and having her mother present. The mother was asked to leave the interview to allow the youth to feel more comfortable discussing her sexual history. During the interview Rosslynn, reported her stepbrother, Robert had spoken to her in regards to having sex. She noted both she and her stepbrother later went into his room, he pulled his pants down and she took her pants off. According to Rosslynn, she allowed Robert to get on top of her. She stated that his penis touched her vagina. Rosslynn noted after the inappropriate sexual behavior had taken place, they both went outside to play. She denied any
I have first hand seen the childish ways of a drug abusing parent and my overall standpoint is everyone has a weakness, you just need to find a light to bring you out of the dark hole which the monster and sends you down and see what's worth living for. “I believe if you want to write a memoir, you have to tell the entire truth (yes, I understand it will be colored by your personal lenses), and that means truly opening yourself and those around you to public inspection” (Par. 15) said Ellen Hopkins displaying that she takes informing teens as a serious role. A prediction i could infer based upon the parallel relationship between Kristina and her father is if her son is exposed to drugs he will most likely fall in the same path if her she does not tell him the danger of these substances. This novel is a great tool to get the word out there that hard drugs will hurt you, hurt your family and make you a whole new
Cunningham, M. (2012). Integrating Spirituality in Clinical Social Work Practice: Walking the Labyrinth (1 ed.). Upper Saddle River: Pearson Education Inc.
Both Herman and his mother were attentive and engaged during the session. Herman noted that he has been doing well at school. He noted he has been getting along well with his friends at school. He noted that he lied to his sister on this past weekend about taking his medications. He noted that he thought his sister may give him the wrong medications. His mother noted that Herman lied about his medications and he knew better. She noted that the situation was corrected and he eventually was given his medications. Herman and his mother participated well with the activity sheets on Values. Herman was able to identify 3 values that were most important to him. He noted having good grades being creative and being rich are his top 3 values from the worksheet. He then noted the following answers to these questions
The personal information’s’ of the following individuals in the scenarios was changed for confidential purposes.
The purpose of the questions is to review the readings and to discuss the material in the class. The length of your responses will vary; for an estimate, write about 100 words for each response.
The meeting’s focus of discussion is on a student from Ms. Rupman’s class (Melvin N.). Before the start of discussing the behavior and academic performance of Melvin, my supervisor gave a brief discussion on an Invention & Referral Services (Parent Meeting) that was held on October 6th on the student, NF. This meeting involved School Social Worker, NF’s mother, Ms. Hunter (Nurse), and I being
The given information shared in Jack’s case was from his special education teacher’s perspective. The identified patient in this case is Jack. Currently, Jack is in the tenth grade in a special education class. He lives at home with his mother, younger brother and stepfather. Jack’s mother works two jobs and is rarely at home and his stepfather is an alcoholic who was recently release from prison, where he was incarcerated for assault with a deadly weapon.
79). After my introduction I asked a closed question “is that OK” (Interview 2015, 0:44) in order to receive a go ahead confirmation. I then preceded with an open question “what brings you here today” (Interview 2015, 0:47) to ascertain Rebecca’s reason/s for attending. Similarly, I asked Rebecca two closed questions and an open question to first demonstrate comprehension by probing for clarification and then to encourage her continuation (Interview 2015, 2:08-2:20). Ivey, Ivey & Zalaquett (2010) suggest that open and closed questions are a fundamental part of the listening skills a counsellor develops, thus a vital aspect of the counselling micro-skills effectiveness. With this in mind, my overall questions were effective, although with practice, my questioning could improve my awareness of the effects of suggestive or directive questions (Ivey, Ivey & Zalaquett 2010, p. 16). For example, I implied that when Rebecca’s other daughter went through a similar ordeal, Rebecca did not faint, thus suggesting or even possibly directing Rebecca to look at a particular aspect of her story or even change direction, instead of paraphrasing to show comprehension, thus supporting and encouraging the flow of her story (Interview 2015, 7:18; Gelard & Gelard
In this case study, Laura and Danny have had significant changes in their lives. Laura has now left with the children and planning on moving with them to El Paso, Texas in a month. She has also filed for divorce from Danny. While Laura is making positive improvements to her life she is still concerned for Danny. She goes to collect what’s left of her belongings when she finds Danny in a state of panic. Danny has let himself go at this point. He started consuming alcohol, has not found a job, and is living with no electricity. Kid decides to pay Danny and Laura a visit and he quickly realizes Danny is in trouble. Danny begs for Kid’s assistance in order to help him start a new life. Danny is worried that he will end up alone and homeless
Her immediately family is composed of three brothers and a sister as her siblings. One of her brothers is married to a white female and the sister has never married but has had relationships and has a white child out of wedlock. The person we are investigating or our subject has two Caucasian children out of wedlock. One of her children is aged 24years while the other is seven years old. The subject has had several recurring problems in her life and these include mental problems, alcoholism and drug abuse. Her family members have their lives described in the following paragraph.
Anthony has been through many traumas in his life. When Anthony was a little boy around the age of 8, he was raped by another male that was close to his family. The rapist was one of his father’s friends that Anthony used to hang out with a lot with his father. At the age of 15, Anthony’s father committed suicide at his workshop. Anthony
Case work is not only the basic practice in professional Social Work but rather, a common practice followed by all. The traditional definition defines case work as “a method of helping individuals through a one-on-on relationship’’. Every individual trained or untrained indulges in case work. The difference is made by theoretical understanding and professional ethics, practices involved in professional case work. Mary Richmond in 1915 explains casework as “the art of doing different things for and with different people by cooperating with them to achieve at one and the same time their own and society' betterment.” Social Case Work can also be defined as “an art in which knowledge of the science of human relations and skill in relationship are used to mobilize capacities in the individual and resources in the community appropriate for better adjustment between the client and all or any part of his total environment”.