The goal of the overall casework intervention is to help Lennie to regulate his health status and recover from the self-fragment state while the preliminary goal is to build up a meaningful client-social worker relationship. The specific goals will be set around Lennie’s selfobject experience needs. The respectively corresponding strategies are below:
Reconstructing the self-esteem system. For instance, to act as an active and empathic listener using some sentences such as “ if I were you I might feel angry.” to identify Lennie’s feeling (Geldard & Geldard eds. 2012, pp. 63). Through this, his mirroring selfobject need could be satisfied as first then his self is valued by others.
Reconstructing the self-control system. That is to say, …show more content…
The stakeholders, in this case, include the prison, medical service department, the Department of Justice, the outside society and the government; the client of the social work is Lennie. People with mental health needs in their custody are entitled to access qualified services offered by social workers without prejudice (AASW, 2010; Corrective Services Ministers' Conference, 2012 and Department of Justice and Regulation, 2015). Thus, the social worker shares the basically common target with them while providing the service to the client. However, since people and agencies co-operating hold different professional perspectives, the preference on their goal setting could be slightly distinct. For example, the medical service staff would focus on the client’s physical condition whereas the social worker is more likely to evaluate the service outcome from a combining angle of psychological and physical dimensions. Apart from that, the expectation of the length of service process will be different. For instance, As stated in the Council of Australian Governments National Action Plan for Mental Health 2006-2011, all jurisdictions are expected to provide the data of prisoner’s mental health condition in following censuses (2013). This plan may place the pressure on the prison in the circumstance where the casework of the prisoner would not show its effectiveness in the short-term but need the social worker spend relatively longer session for the intervention. To resolve these possible situations above, the preparation and coordination work
Reconstructing the self-esteem system. For instance, to act as an active and empathic listener using some sentences such as “ if I were you I might feel angry.” to identify Lennie’s feeling (Geldard & Geldard eds. 2012, pp. 63). Through this, his mirroring selfobject need could be satisfied as first then his self is valued by others.
Reconstructing the self-control system. That is to say, …show more content…
The stakeholders, in this case, include the prison, medical service department, the Department of Justice, the outside society and the government; the client of the social work is Lennie. People with mental health needs in their custody are entitled to access qualified services offered by social workers without prejudice (AASW, 2010; Corrective Services Ministers' Conference, 2012 and Department of Justice and Regulation, 2015). Thus, the social worker shares the basically common target with them while providing the service to the client. However, since people and agencies co-operating hold different professional perspectives, the preference on their goal setting could be slightly distinct. For example, the medical service staff would focus on the client’s physical condition whereas the social worker is more likely to evaluate the service outcome from a combining angle of psychological and physical dimensions. Apart from that, the expectation of the length of service process will be different. For instance, As stated in the Council of Australian Governments National Action Plan for Mental Health 2006-2011, all jurisdictions are expected to provide the data of prisoner’s mental health condition in following censuses (2013). This plan may place the pressure on the prison in the circumstance where the casework of the prisoner would not show its effectiveness in the short-term but need the social worker spend relatively longer session for the intervention. To resolve these possible situations above, the preparation and coordination work