2500 words essay. It is a case study. Please go through the attachments for the case study and instructions.
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Case study 1:
Bailey Organisation type: Youth support service Bailey is 16 years old and left home 8 months ago. She lives in a regional town with limited employment options for young people. Since leaving home Bailey has stayed with various friends and tried living with her grandmother (Karen). She moves around, staying with friends when she can. She heard about the youth support service as a place for food and to charge her phone. After visiting several times for emergency assistance, Bailey has been referred for ongoing support and case management services. At this time she has no stable accommodation and is not working or attending school. Her mother (Frida) and stepfather (Michael) live in a smaller town close by. Her biological father lives in Malaysia and she has not had contact with him since she was 3 years old. Bailey has an older sister, Dana (age 21) who attends university interstate. Bailey has told the youth service she gets along ok with her mother and sister but the reason she does not return home is because she does not get along with her stepfather. She used to see the school counsellor when she attended school but had never told her mother about this.
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50% of final grade (marked out of 50) |
Due date: |
Sunday 31st May 2020 |
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2500 words |
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Essay / Case Study analysis In your essay you will analyse the case study and critically evaluate the theoretical approach and intervention/s that you would use as a practitioner working with this scenario. Support your ideas and proposed approaches to practice using your learning in this Unit. You can choose one or more of the theoretical models learned throughout this course to prepare your essay. For example: Strengths Based Approaches, Attachment Theory, Systems/Ecological approach and Anti-Oppressive practice. Your essay should include consideration of:
• The social work/practitioner role and the likely organisational context of the service/s involved in the case study. • Who is your primary client and consideration their significant others (e.g carers, extended family, friends, peers) when working in partnership in this case. • What are your initial thoughts about the case study and what you would take into consideration preparing to work with the people in the case study? • How do theory and models of practice help you to understand the situation? • How does your understanding of theory and models of practice influence the approach you might take with the case study. Outline how you would work with the people in this scenario. • Critically evaluate your chosen approach to working with the client using literature |
Assessment criteria: |
The essay will be assessed against the following criteria: Analysis/Argument (60%) Demonstrated understanding of key concepts, theories or perspectives covered within the unit learning materials in respect to application to the case study (e.g. Strengths Based Practice; Attachment Theory; Trauma Informed Practice; Ecological Systems theory; Anti-Oppressive Practice etc.) Application of concepts reflecting critical analysis of the case study and chosen practice approach. Use of clear framework in response to the case study and assessment task Key concepts, debates and issues identified Critical reflection on the topics Topics are discussed in adequate depth and use sources and literature relevant to topic Evidence of wide reading
Structure/Organisation (20%) A clear essay structure has been used to put forward a central argument in response to all elements of the assessment task. The essay reflects sound use of paragraphs with a logical flow between sections.
Clarity of Expression (10%) Correct spelling/punctuation, sound sentence structure and succinct writing. Written expression clearly conveys meaning.
Adherence to Academic Writing Style including references (10%) References: Minimum 10 references needed. No website linked or references are allowed. Peer reviewed must be. Sound use of literature throughout. References are correctly and consistently presented. Sources are adequately acknowledged. A minimum of 10 references is required for this assessment. |
Running head: SWK313 ASSESSMENT 2 CASE STUDIES 1
SWK313 ASSESSMENT 2 CASE STUDIES 8
SWK313 Assessment 2 Case Studies
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Case Study 1: Bailey
Organisation type: Youth support service
In the discussion, the paper will explore in details the case study of Bailey who is at her 16th year of age and faces a lot of difficulties for that matter. Bailey being a tender girl has the capacity of getting a good education, access to information, good healthcare, and good parental care. From the case, we can realize that the lady is facing a challenge of parental care and she does not have a stable place or home to stay according to the context in the case study. Therefore, as a counsellor, I would advise the lady to get home and find the peace of her mind at her family’s care and support. Therefore, this paper will discuss in details how Bailey may be helped to meet her life objectives (Bourke, & Ready-Ed Publications, 2004).
To equally look into the life of Bailey, she is still at the tender age for her to decide on making her personal decisions and for the choices that she may make for her life may not help her for the long term planning of her life and for the success of herself. Her deciding to stay with her grandmother madam Karen could be the best option for herself and for the good parental care of her older grandmother, but things turn not to be the way we expect. I could stand strong to blame the grandmother for not having a firm stand to stop Bailey from moves again from her place to find shelter at her friends’ places.
In this case, I can say, it is the poor parental care by her parents both the mother and the grandmother that did not set a good foundation on how to care for their family members such that Bailey is left with all the freedom to move from one place to another without being cautioned and being seriously summoned over the same (Emery, 2012). We as the audience to the case study, we don’t find the clear evidence of what might have been the indifference between Bailey and her stepfather. This is the most critical path that we should find to know and get to find the solution form that point of view.
The foundation of the issues that Bailey is facing could be originating from the inner cycle of their parental and guidance system that we can say lack clear principles of good parenting and social care for the family members. I could have started by knowing what could be the issue that keeps Bailey outside the brackets of their family with her claim that she does not get in terms with her stepfather. In the application of the psychosocial theory of human learning and behaviour change, I would wish to monitor and find out the problem by sitting down with Bailey and trying to find out her problem. Through good guidance and counselling, I believe that the problem can easily be solved (Clement, 2004).
The process of identifying the problem could be the foundation of getting to help Bailey so as she can be able to return back home and be with a good relationship with their family and enjoy the parental care and responsibility of their parents as they live together. On the other hand, I could ascertain some claims to blaming the mother, she is not a responsible mother, damn it! She does not care for the life of her daughter and for this case, she should be held responsible for the mistakes and the wrong choices that Bailey is making in her life. A responsible mother should be knowing the well about of her daughter and be at ease to understand what could be the problem between her and her new father or her stepfather.
Bailey’s mother should be the pillar to solve the issues that Bailey is facing, because she is here, and should act as the intermediary between her husband and her daughter. She has terribly failed as a mother and she does not deserve to be called one (Furgang, 2013). The mistakes our kids or our children make should be as a result of some aspects that are missing in the parenting hood. Bailey is now suffering and facing hard life because her parents were not responsible for the care that their kid’s needs. Good parent skills and the love of the family can drive the mountains to a better place and the kids enjoy being cared for and feeling the love of their parents.
On the other hand, I may fail to express the feeling of how Bailey feels because she has no contact with her biological father since she was at the age of three years which means that she has been lacking the love of the father and that of the family that she strongly can attach herself to. In this case I cannot blame the girl because she has got the hard time to have the love of their family members who from experience and from the look of thing are poor in making family relations and do not care about their welfare as the extended family from the biological father of Bailey to her grandmother Karen (Glick, & Kessler, 1980). The family is seriously in turmoil and should seek proper guidance and counselling.
Being at the situation of the girl I can apply the Attachment theory to explain the process and the event of things in this case where the girl lacks strong emotional and physical attachment to their family members, maybe because of ignorance of their family members or lack of good parenting skills and guidance. I strongly feel the isolation that Bailey may be feeling and experience in her case that she is not able to understand the nature of how things work in her life. She struggles to make ends meeting but all is still in vain. She moves from one place to another so as to find some peace of mind and maybe a better place than before but she has not got it in life, my poor young little girl.
In the process, I can again find some difficulties in explaining the situation from the biological father, on how they diverted ways until now that Bailey is 16 years meaning that for the last 13 years they have not been together with her mother (Goldenberg, & Goldenberg, 2008). All these claims can be attributed to the behaviour of her mother who is not responsible for caring for her daughter, she gets to enjoy her relationship with her new husband without caring for her kids, even in her clear scenario I don’t find it clear if she even really cares for Baily’s older sister at the university. This is a serious case scenario that should be reported to the relevant authorities for neglecting the responsibilities of having a child being cared for and provided for.
Bailey must be suffering from the mental trauma over the neglecting that she is facing for not being cared for by none of her family members, and furthermore she is not even schooling. I could have the courage to form a good counselling team that could guide the lady and advise her according to so as she can be able to stand the pain and the isolation of her family. From the experience that she used to go for guidance and counselling without her mother knowing tells us the pressure the girl used to undergo and the pain that she used to feel (Minuchin, 1974).
Bailey trying to find life through friend means that she did not want to be a bother to any of their members such that she never gets comfortable where she gets to stay and wants to find even a job to keep her moving and sustain her life. This case gives a very interesting case that should be given a lot of attention because this is what happens to most of the families that we live in and what we face. Bailey sets a good example to the kind of the children that lacks the parental care and never gets to the streets but stands to face the challenge in life in a positive way and strive to survive in her all possible ways.
From the sources, she gets to be recommended to a youth support service but she is not able to find the comfort in it because she does not have a good accommodation to let her find ease with the service or the support group such that she is able to deliver to them (Noller, & Karantzas, 2012). She is asked why she does not get to stay with her mother and father and she exposes it out that she is not in good terms with her stepfather, and this is where we can find the problem getting to start from. As a counsellor, this is where guidance and support should be attributed to and be given some weight as it is planned to help Bailey to settle all her struggles and find the comfort back and the love of the family too.
To help the lady, then we should keen look into the application of the attachment theory and how it applies in the case. We say that the attachment is a deep endurance that bonds people together through the emotional feeling and the aspects of the time and space that is given. Meaning that if Bailey is given time and space she is able to bond back to her father because of the same blood aspects that connect them. The mother should be addressed well so as she can be able to understand the pain that her daughter must be going through and how she should be able to handle the situation accordingly.
The attachment does not mean that it should be reciprocated, meaning that the one individual attachment to the other should be having some value and some aspect of sharing that is being characterized by some specific behaviours that are in children, such that when seeking proximity to the figure to attach yourself to should not be a problem when someone is being upset or threatened (Orr, 2010). Therefore, for the case of Bailey all should be geared towards reconciling her with her parents and getting her to the normal parenting system that other children enjoy too.
To put things right in this case, I would advise that Bailey should get a good mentor that should be advising her and letting her see life in a positive scenario and find the solution of herself to get the love of her mother and father back to normal so as she can be able to enjoy her rest future life. Good guidance and counselling will help her see the bigger picture of how things should be done and how to relate back to her stepfather without having a lot of difficulties and hating him for no good reason.
The British psychologist John Bowlby was the first attachment scholar and theorist, describing attachment as an “enduring psychological connectedness between people.” Bowlby was keen on understanding the separation uneasiness and misery that youngsters experience when isolated from their essential caregivers (Pike, Coldwell, & Dunn, 2006). Probably the soonest behaviour theories proposed that connection was essentially a cultivated behaviour. These theories recommended that the connection was simply the aftereffect of the encouraging connection between the child and the parental figure. Since the Guardian encourages the child and gives food, the child ends up connected.
What Bowlby watched is that even feedings did not reduce the uneasiness experienced by children when they were isolated from their essential parents. Rather, he found that the connection was portrayed by clear behaviour and inspiration designs. At the point when children are scared, they will look for nearness from their parents so as to get both comfort and care. Therefore, I agree that the scenario explained above is what Bailey lack and should be given good comfort such that she can be able to get back the love of their family and enjoy being cared for by her parents and their extended family members at large.
Then it should be the role of the grandmother form the extended family link to bring the ends to a meeting point such that the two families may be in harmony and enjoy the love of the family by getting to advise and counselling Bailey well so as she can be able to get back the love of the family back and be able to forgive her stepfather and move on with life and a clear basis that everything has been put into control and they all enjoy their family love rather than each and every person being at his or her on stand (Winek, 2009).
Therefore, as a therapy expert in family counselling, I would recommend the family to be taken through a thorough family counselling. Family therapy is a brunch of psychology that focuses on the family member’s relationship; it deals with the counselling of the family members. Family therapy considers the interaction of the family as a vital part of health in family existence. Cooperation of family members in an issue that affects an individual member of the family is an integral part of therapy, effective communication from the therapist is important in supporting the whole process of administering therapy (Winek, 2009).
There are three approaches used in administering family therapy they include:
i. Structural therapy-it looks at the family and re-organizes its system.
ii. Strategic therapy-strategic therapy focuses on the forms of family relationship.
iii. The systematic therapy-this approach looks at the beliefs of a family.
In the case given in this paper it would be necessary if the family therapist would adopt the strategic therapy approach, the main problem that is affecting Bailey’s family is a relationship. Bailey who is 16 years and her parents have not taken time to realize her needs in life. Bailey feels so destitute of her rights to choose what to do in her life. This is the reason as to why she does not stay with her parents and lacks guidance and hence indicating that she has no concern for school as the parents are not concerned of her life (Clement, 2004). Bailey is having a strained relationship with her father who does not take time to listen to her since he is the stepfather and not concerned about the life of Bailey and rarely does he give Bailey easy time to come home. Bailey’s mother doesn’t often nag about her daughter but fails to find out why that happens.
As a therapist, I would assess that the main issue that affects Bailey’s family is a poor relationship. Bailey’s father seldom stays in the house and does not get to be in good terms with Bailey, and he forces Bailey to be away from home and not finding from Bailey how she can be helped nor does he get it from Frida, Baily’s mother (Emery, 2012). Bailey’s mother does not even quarrel her for being lazy since he sleeps for many hours but she fails to enquire why Bailey does not show concern for getting home, Bailey, on the other hand, keeps to herself and not open to the father and the mother on what is affecting her, what she wants and what she does not want.
All in all, as a family therapist, I would first identify the source of conflicting interest of which in this case, it is the strained family relationship. Secondly, I will proceed to explain to Bailey’s father the need to have free, good family relationship with the child. The parents should offer an intrinsic desire for their daughter to love her and care for her. In addition, the parents should create an open and friendly atmosphere in the family for a proper and effective communication system to enable the daughter to freely approach her parents when faced with challenging circumstances.
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