1. As a social worker, I would look at their strength perspective first because I would want my clients to see how they could use their positive qualities to solve other issues going on among them. One example of a strength perspective for these teens is that they are still enrolled in school and are still attending school regularly. Also, how their grades aren’t completely failing grades that they are keeping them in the average percentile. And I would also look at how it hasn’t lead them to do drug or gang activities, which most teens tend to do when they are having behavior programs. Another strength is that they haven’t got physically violent. In which we can use these things to help build where they’re weak we can find other resources
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And as far as Maria goes I would be sure to remind them that she is connecting with her peers and is being a sociable. Also, I would look at how she is willing to ask them for money, instead of her stealing items that she want. How I would go about solving this problem is getting the parents to see that she rather have sleepovers than to sneak out at night and do things she shouldn’t be doing, at least when she is at home they know what she is doing. I could talk with her about limiting her shopping trips to once every two weeks. When it comes to the ecosystem theory the social worker should consider the home environment as well as society environment which both are critical because we must get an understanding of the living situation to understand how it is effect their behavior now. Also, I stated society environment because we tend to allow society to dedicate how our lives should be ran because of our role and expectations. And right now, what is causing the boys to act in this way is because their mother is intimate with the same sex, which may cause others to frown upon them as well as their family. Which can lead up to the teens being picked on by their peers and such actions can cause them behavior problems because they are being resentful of their mother’s
And as far as Maria goes I would be sure to remind them that she is connecting with her peers and is being a sociable. Also, I would look at how she is willing to ask them for money, instead of her stealing items that she want. How I would go about solving this problem is getting the parents to see that she rather have sleepovers than to sneak out at night and do things she shouldn’t be doing, at least when she is at home they know what she is doing. I could talk with her about limiting her shopping trips to once every two weeks. When it comes to the ecosystem theory the social worker should consider the home environment as well as society environment which both are critical because we must get an understanding of the living situation to understand how it is effect their behavior now. Also, I stated society environment because we tend to allow society to dedicate how our lives should be ran because of our role and expectations. And right now, what is causing the boys to act in this way is because their mother is intimate with the same sex, which may cause others to frown upon them as well as their family. Which can lead up to the teens being picked on by their peers and such actions can cause them behavior problems because they are being resentful of their mother’s