What Are Grandparents Doing Post-Intervention

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In order to know if this population of grandparents are achieving their goal for the intervention, the professional would re-assess through a narrative storytelling approach. By telling their story, the grandparent is going to be able to express how well his or her overall health, emotion, thought process, and behavior is going after the interventions. By reevaluating how well the client is doing post-intervention, it gives the client a sense of accomplishment and success. The grandparent will feel that he or she were supported and understood in this intervention process (Poehlmann, 2003).
According to Poehlmann (2003), grandparents usually assume responsibility for their grandchildren, therefore, they feel that it is their obligation to make

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