A. Vernonia School District v. Acton (1994)- Random Drug Testing of High School Athletes. B. Facts of the case 1.The official investigation led to the discovery that high school athletes in the vernonia high school district participated in illicit drug use. School official were concerned that drug use increases the risk of sports related injury. Constantly, Vernonia school district of oregon adopted the student athletes drug policy which authorizes random urinalysis drug testing of its student athletes.…
1. Mrs. Wigfall (MHS) reports Ayden is getting more verbal by making sounds. Ayden is nonverbal. Ayden is learning sign language as a form of communication. MHS report Ayden continues to be alert, playful and active.…
Overall, services provided indicated that both case studies improved in respect to their family functioning, supports, attachments. A check in was conducted after a year of completing the program which indicated that the child in case one had continued to…
FFT is an evidenced based strength-based treatment model built on a foundation of acceptance and respect, it’s a prevention and intervention program for adolescents at risk of, or already engaging in, problem behaviors. FFT focus on assessment and intervention to tackle the issues of risk and protective elements within and outside of the family that impact the adolescent and his or her adaptive development. FFT targets children and youth’s ages10-18 and their families, whose problems range from acting out to conduct disorder to alcohol/substance abuse. Intervention ranges from, on average, 8 to 12 one-hour sessions for mild cases and up to 30 sessions for difficult situations. FFT is usually carried out by one or two team of mental health professional,…
Circumstance: Ms. Smalls (MHP) made face to face contact with Mr. and Mrs. Gailliard (MHS) and Clarence. Action: Clarence was hiding the TV when MHP enter the home. Clarence seem excited by making loud noises and shaking his head back and forth. MHP and MHS discuss social interactions with peers his age and younger. MHS explain Clarence will talk and play with the peers for a short time than separate himself.…
Introduction: In this task I will be explaining why my service user accesses the service provision. Service provision is a term used to describe a range of activities. Some of which include health services and assistive devices.…
The Client’s grades have been dropping and she is having problems sleeping at night. She states that her parents have been arguing since their Christmas dinner in 2015. Due to the arguing, it has been hard for the client to study and get rest at night. Client would like to get more rest at night and bring up her grades. After completion of the client’s assessment which consist of the presenting problems, strengths, abilities, needs, and preferences; client and social worker discussed and agreed that the client should find a quiet spot to study so can bring up her grades and get more rest at night.…
Special Communication Literacy Program Review Meg DeFrance Centenary University GED 656- Dr. Benedict SPECIAL COMMUNICATION LITERACY PROGRAM REVIEW 2 Liam is a 6 year old healthy boy who is the youngest of 4 boys with both parents in the home. He was referred to the Child Study Team weeks into the school year in Kindergarten due to a very low DTKR (Developmental Test of Kindergarten Readiness) score. Liam qualified for Resource room, Occupational Therapy and Speech and Language services.…
7. Describe the family-centered intervention. The family-center intervention is about the family outcomes as a whole.…
I would be hopeful that being placed in a nurturing environment through foster care and appropriate interventions could help to combat, or at least aid in reducing, these developmental delays—especially if there were no medical indicators for an additional cause of developmental…
However, the results might be influenced by the luck of information, time, resources or when families are not willing to participate in collaboration. The practice method appropriate for this case could be brief solution-focused therapy, which relies on seeking positive changes with individuals and families moving away from a problem focused approach. This approach was influenced by Milton Erickson and De Shazer and is oriented on minimal intervention. Research rates effectiveness of this method in treatment of groups from 65% to 82%.…
Children all respond in different ways, including sadness, excessive crying, depression, diminished school performance, truancy, disciplinary problems, alcohol and other drug use, running away and sometime aggressive behaviors. Of course, all children respond in different ways these were just a few that stuck out to me in several different throughout my experience as a caseworker. (Kampfner, 1995).…
The goals and objectives were clearly identifiable? The goals and objectives are not clearly stated but it became very clear that the objectives include: engagement with each other and initiating conversation. The clinician successfully achieves these goals by providing an activity for the children to engage in but still allowing them to take initiation. The clinician reacts to almost every comment the children make in order to promote engagement between the two clients.…
The therapist must be able to observe how often the problem is taking place, as well as what is the stressor is that is causing a problem with in the family. Cognitive behavioral family therapy emphasizes the need for attitude change for the family to have and maintain behavior modification (Nichols, 2014) Techniques in which the family, specifically the parents, solve their problems with the children should be an important concern for the therapist. The way that parents react to their children behavior can be the difference in the child reactive behavior. Operant conditioning is a way to break children from their bad habits and enhance their good behaviors.…
Autism and Applied Behavior Analysis Affecting one in every 150 children born in the United States, Autism Spectrum Disorder is a vicious disease with no known cause that affects social, communication and language skills. Many trials and treatments have been and will continue to be conducted to find the best way to treat, cure and prevent Autism. One finding that has particularly been praised is Applied Behavior Analysis. Applied Behavior Analysis is four different treatments, Discrete Trial Learning, Pivotal Response Training, Verbal Behavior and Incidental Teaching that focus on natural intervention and behavioral issues of Autism Spectrum Disorder.…