Comprehensive Assessment-Cortez Family This comprehensive assessment will focus on Paula Cortez and will address the issues she and her family is encountering. By using the Solution-Focused and Strengths Perspective Assessments, we are able to approach Paula without judgment and remain client-focused by directing her strengths to establish specific goals to address her needs. The majority of people have an idea of where their lives are currently and where they would like their life to eventually get. By using the Solution-Focused and Strengths Perspective Assessments, the social worker is able to allow the client to remain focused on where they would like to go, rather than where they have been. Paula Cortez Paula is a 43-year-old Bilingual,…
As a potential counselor, working with a family will be one of my biggest challenges in my premature career. Treating a family entails many factors such as learning their family system(s), culture/ethnic background, communication patterns and identifying any emotional themes among other important elements. Within this process, it is vital to hear all the voices of each family member to find out the concerns, issues or problems each one bring to the family dynamic. However, applying these elements in a family therapy session may look different for every family that seeks treatment. However, it is important to bear in mind that a family therapy session may be the only place, where each family member can have a voice and speak freely.…
Celso was able to eliminate all physical aggression toward his father over the course of treatment. Verbal aggression was decreased within the home towards his father for one- two weeks at a time. Celso was able to control his anger and utilize her coping skills which decreased the number of verbal altercation. Sergio adjusted his parenting style which helped in the reduction of his involvement in the verbal altercation with Celso. The family increased their engagement with one another and has shown a great improvement over the course of treatment.…
Introduction This paper will describe Dasani’s biological, psychological, and psychosocial dimensions that was seen throughout her case assessment. Some of the theories that will be discussed is health and wealth connection, Piaget cognitive theory, social learning theory, and social support and how social support aids coping. The conclusion with consist of a reflection of Dasani case assessment, and what the writer has learned about other people while writing this assessment. Health and Wealth Connection Defined Health and wealth connection, which is also known as exterior socioeconomic environment and interior health environment.…
Justification In compliance with ASHA standards, we as clinicians need to follow evidence-based practice to justify why we are assessing Diane in the way that we are (ASHA, n.d.). It is important to turn to a greater field of research that considers best practices to ensure that quality services are being provided during every step of this assessment process. Explanations of methods include justifications of questions and goals, procedures, materials, and data collection/interpretation. Questions and Goals Justification…
Biopsychosocial Information “Nick” is a fifteen-year old African American male that has been a resident at The Bridge since July, 2016. Prior to being referred for treatment by truancy court, Nick had been smoking approximately ten blunts a day and spending money on a daily basis for marijuana. There has been a history of family conflict and recently, Nick’s paternal grandmother passed away from cancer. He was residing with his mother and father along with his two younger siblings. Nick’s mother and father have been together for approximately twenty years.…
Working with the family has become one of my interested groups to work with in the future since the first day of Clinical Skills C class with specified family therapy. One of the vignettes, that we did the role-play in class was Hernandez family. I decided to do the comparison between two theories, Structural Family Therapy and Bowen Intergenerational Therapy, by working with this family. This family are Hispanic, and their presenting problem is lack of communication, especially with the daughter who is 18-year-old and was diagnosed with anorexia 6 months before the first session.…
Sanchez Family Case Study In this paper the clinician will be identifying the issues and problems of the Sanchez family. The clinician will prioritize the issues of the case. Along the way they will decide what issues can be resolved clinically and what issues require systemic intervention. Finally, the clinician will decide which family member illicit the least sympathy or empathy.…
Throughout her childhood the family was always moving from place to place. Along with moving came the different doctors and the different tests she was forced to take to please her mother. Also, the foster kids that come into the family’s life do not help the economic burden on the family. This environment does not help the neglect and abuse and only makes it worse throughout her childhood. Lastly, we talked about the psychodynamic theory and the resiliency Julia showed throughout her life.…
A conversation has been sparked from current parents to those who are thinking of having a family on how they can ensure that their child will grow up in the best way possible. The argument of nature versus nurture has ignited a conversation with both individuals active in the science community, as well as, the average individual. During the Inheritance podcast of RadioLab, the elements in which directly influence a child’s genes and upbringing are discussed using examples from studies done on rats, records of individuals in Sweden, and the effect of drug addicted mothers on the child. The conversation begins with an example that uses lab rats to better understand if a mother were to nurture a pup with constant licking, how the pup would then mother their own pups.…
The three identified risk factors of Precious’s life have been her relationship with her mother, previous trauma, and her living situation. Precious and her mother do not have a strong relationship. Her mother was physically and verbally abusive towards her instead of providing her with the love and care that she needed. Precious’s relationship with her mother could have been a problem on how she interacts with her own…
Introduction Lifespan development includes many stages of growth; one of these stages is middle adulthood. This time period is defined as the time period from the 30’s into the 50’s (Broderick, 2015). This period of time is complex and multifaceted, with job, socioeconomic issues, children, spouse and many other life personal issues. Relationships are also of concern, with divorce, cohabitation, marriage and remarriage adding to the complication of the time period (Broderick, 2015). War, disaster, world events and other environmental issues can also mark this time period (Broderick, 2015).…
Model of Family Therapy The Experiential Family Therapy model is a theory that was developed by the practitioners of Carl, Whitaker, Walter Kempler and Virginia Satir. With the Experiential Family Therapy Model, the goal of the therapist is to catalyze the natural drive of the family to reach growth and the full potential of the individual members of the family. Still, the individual practitioners allowed their personality to be instrumental in the success of their unique forms of Experimental Family Therapy, although their focus and goals were similar (Goldberg, 2013). Because of the importance of the individual personality in the success of a model, Whitaker’s Symbolic-Experiential Family Therapy (S-EFT) was selected and will be argued for…
Goal 1: The children will face the event that is causing them to develop negative emotions in their life. • Objective 1: The children will discuss their feelings that they typically avoid about the changes that are occurring with their mom. • Objective 2: The children will demonstrate an understanding of the changes that is occurring with their mom by visiting her once a month. Rationale for Goal 2: The purpose of this goal is to allow the children to confirm or disconfirm their anticipated feelings about the changes with their mom. The children will also change their viewpoint regarding the problem.…
If he or she are students face problem in learning lessons and analyze it. Marijuana can effect on behavior and make the person do things that he or she does not aware from it. The most important effect of marijuana it’s on pregnant women. “Research shows that the use of marijuana in the teen years increases the severity of schizophrenia and lowers the age of its onset for those susceptible to it." Marijuana it’s very dangerous for the people it can…