With these tools, they helped me to understand the collaboration and relationships of the client. The genogram shows that client’s parents are divorced and client is staying with his mother. The ecomap shows that his parents are having stress in finance even though they are having a source of income. His parents stressing drugs while receiving positive energy from drugs as they feel better when take drugs and at the same time they are not aware of what they are doing when they are on drugs. For the client, school is draining his energy and it is stressful for him. Therefore, he dropped out of school when he was in Secondary 2. He shoplifted as there is a stress on finance in his family. Therefore, for him to support himself to get things
Since they helped him pay for a portion of his schooling, he feels like he should give back to them. He wants to make their living situation more comfortable as fast as
Tayib is likely feeling as though he is a failure and disappointment to parents and that he is a failure at life in general (Broderick, 2014). Not only is he not living up to their expectations, but he keeps getting passed over for promotions at work, despite his dedication. Even so, he sticks with his same job, hoping one day that his good work will be noticed. Possibly one of Tayib’s problems is that he is not assertive enough when it comes to work. He lets his boss glaze over him and allows him to ignore his efforts without telling his boss how it truly impacts him. His coworkers and supervisor benefit from his conscientiousness without giving anything back. Furthermore, Tayib seems a bit
The children would be overjoyed to work with their parents to make them better and have them live with them still. Some ethical dilemmas would be not to become too involved but you have to so that the family can trust you into helping them. You almost have to force the hand of the parents which is unethical you are not meant to force someone into getting help but if they don’t improve they are endangering the lives of their children. Another problem is getting the family to make changes again the children are willing to make those changes but the father is another problem. He has been through the whole cycle of change with drinking, he has stopped but then he has gone back and relapsed and it looks like every time he has relapsed he has gone deeper into drinking. Other challenges would be to find ways to get the family to actually attempt the intervention techniques that they would learn through the therapy or with working with the family. Another challenge would be finding a way to help the family pay for all this; it might be an ethical dilemma if wanting to provide these services, but not wanting to show them greater care than any other
If he is at school, he may want to discuss his situation with a teacher he trusts and respects, or the school counselor if there is one. Colleges and universities usually provide student-counseling services.
The stand or fall of social environment has a strong impact on the formation of a child’s behavior. Wes P had begun selling drugs, which was making him plenty of money. He explained his cash flow and expensive purchases by telling his mother he had become a successful DJ in the neighborhood. “ Tony found his younger brother and asked for an explanation for the learning tower of Nikes. Wes stuttered out a story: he’d became a popular DJ and was making incredible loot DJing parties.”(69) While Mary believed him, Tony did not. One day he came by the house and noticed Wes P’s room had changed a lot, and a tower of new shoe boxes convinced Tony that Wes had gotten into the drug game. Under the influence of society and vanity, Wes P chose a wrong to making money to sell drug. Throughout the current juvenile crime is visiting trend and the situation of the children more and more to discipline. I believe that in addition to the existing school education way and the modern social development also does not adapt and family education also has a larger error, largely due to social bad education caused by environment factor. Society environment is also equally important, and a good society environment is more conducive to the healthy growth of children, but no more important than family and school environment to the
Interview & Reflection I have interviewed my Father through email over a week period, he was very helpful to me and even knew the answers to the questions I had on my Mother side of the family. I felt he was the best to interview as he is one of the smartest people I know. Of course I talked to him in our native language (Arabic) even though his English was perfect, but I wanted him to feel more comfortable when answering, so I translated everything to English. Below is a list of the questions I asked him and his replies: (Answers are bolded). The first question I have is, why is it that I feel that our family is much bigger than the regular western family?
Nicholas Sheff grew up in a two -parent household. His parents got divorced when he was about seven years old. His mother moved to Los Angeles and his father moved to San Francesco, they both remarried. Nicholas lives with his father and frequently visits his mother. Nic was in therapy to help his cope with his family issues from a young age. He has two half siblings who adore him and he is fond of them. Nic has a good relationship with his stepmother. She taught him French and spends time with him. Nic started smoking cigarettes, using alcohol and marijuana when he was a teenager in high school. He started experimenting with other drugs and became addicted to methamphetamines. Nic stole money from his half siblings to support his drug habits. His father experimented with drugs when he was a teenager. However he never became a drug addict. Nic’s father was devastated when he found out his son was using drugs, his smart, beautiful and loving son is a drug addict. His father believes that he was depressed and his previous drug habits had something to do with Nicholas
Drugs cause an overall disturbance in a subjects’ physiological, psychological and emotional health. “At the individual level, drug abuse creates health hazards for the user, affecting the educational and general development of youths in particular” (“Fresh Challenge”). In youth specifically, drug abuse can be triggered by factors such as: a parent’s abusive behavior, poor social skills, family history of alcoholism or substance abuse, the divorce of parents or guardians, poverty, the death of a loved one, or even because they are being bullied at school (“Drugs, brains, and behavior”) .
The school had occasional reports that he had been caught shoplifting and stealing bicycles near the school with a group of his friends. Within this group, there are boys whose age ranges from 11 to 16. He was also seen smoking by his classmates.
After completing my family genogram, I was able to notice the history of a couple of patterns of fusion in particular. One of the relational patterns that stood out was emotional abuse which for the sake of this assignment I have only traced it back three generations, starting with my paternal grandfather Marciano, who endured the aftermath of the WWII and who conceived out of wedlock (COW) from Spanish and Mestizo parents and who married a woman Fidelina, of Chinese and Indian origin, born in El Salvador like him. Based on anecdotal accounts, Marciano was particularly emotionally abusive towards Rosa, my mother, who is also the first born of the couple and COW. Marciano had very high standards of beauty and intellect, which often triggered name calling, insults, and other forms of humiliation aimed towards my mother, causing her to feel belittled and resent his treatment towards her.
5). The researchers at CASA have also found a correlation between the stress of academic performance and drug use, describing academic performance as the greatest stressor for high school students. In comparing low stress teens with a GPA of 3.0 or higher (A’s and B’s) to high stress teens with a GPA of 2.9 or lower (C’s and D’s), the high stress students who perform poorly are, “Seven times likelier to have used marijuana; more than three times likelier to have used alcohol; and more than three times likelier to have used tobacco” (The National Center on Addictions and Substance Abuse, 2012, p. 5). As complex as the social predictors of adolescent substance abuse are, determining the factors of drug use in high school comes down to three basic aspects: 1) the degree of family involvement in the adolescent’s life, 2) the degree of a student’s free time and 3) the amount of a student’s spending money or
Due to this, he used drugs that dropped him out of the college totally. These students don’t want to seem irresponsible, so they make up an excuse, such as the bad friendship. Another reason we drop out of college is that we want to be independent. A lot of news has been saying that students are sensitive during the adolescence.
Manuel is a client that has been depressed for the past two months. He has lost his construction job, because he missed too much from the effects of drinking heavily and using drugs. His use of drugs and alcohol became a daily routine and was close to killing himself several times. He would be in his apartment all day watching T.V. and drinking and isolated from his family. Also thought of death a lot. His girlfriend left him and became even more depressed because he was alone. He used more to feel better but it made him feel more depressed. He did go see a doctor and prescribed him medication for his depression but he didn’t disclose that he was using drugs.
He started to write about his life when he had a lot of problems that he couldn’t fix. One of them was that his mother doesn’t trust him anymore, since his friend thought him how to lie. The first time he lied to his mother, his mother knew Mathew was lying to her. After a month later his mom found out that Mathew wasn’t going to school, she found out he was hanging out with his friends instead of going to school. His mother also found out that his grades in school is low and that his been absent a lot of times. Mathew’s mom was trying to talk to him but at that time he didn’t listen to her, he was just ignoring her, he was being disrespectful to her. One day Mathew decided to leave the house and stayed at his friend’s house. He didn’t tell anyone where he was going. His mom thought he was just going to leave one day since they both had a fight. But one day became one month, his mother was worried about him, she didn’t know what to do, she decides to go get him at his friend’s house. His mom found out that he was drinking and
We sent him many topnotch places, where many well-known individuals gave testimonials, and took him to talk to many legendary people, but these special places and people could never fix his problem. It always seemed to be a repetition of the same things. Most would use card stacking and the rehab centers propaganda told us, “He needs more help than we can give him.” Some places or people he went to would say this phrase by using common, plain folk, but most would say it with exigent. They believed he was using and drinking so much they thought he would never be able to live to see his 30s. Hearing this news and learning nobody is helping us, we took it upon ourselves to motivate him to quit. We decided to make a PowerPoint that would use logical appeal to help him grasp the number of people who were at the stage he is and were able to quit, but he would just use red-herring to drive us away. At our last resort, my parents and I thought if we used emotional appeal and spoke to him from our hearts he would listen and change. We were right! He finally admitted that his decision to quit because to us that our heart to heart talk, common dissonance resulted in him lying awake at night as he thought about making a change. He broke down that night, and promised us he would quit. Even though some of our persuasion methods failed, we knew one was going to work one