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SW 3010
SW 3010
with individuals and/or families and helping to try and solve their problems. In many cases social workers participate in both micro and mezzo practice. (Hepworth, D. h., Rooney, R. H., Rooney, G. D., Strom-Gottfried, K., & Larsen, J. 2006).
her parents she has ever since struggled with her own parenting techniques from their abandonment and lack of compassion towards her. With her lack of guidance she has been misguided on how to properly provide and care for her own children. She seems to be
would not be able to provide for her children, therefore not being able to gain back custody of her children. Although the client made a poor decision on what she thought would be the most effective way to get through to her teenage daughter, which was placing her hand over the stove to feel the heat. This was her way of trying to teach her daughter that if she continues to do the things she is doing she is eventually going to get burned. The client got carried away and actually ended up burning her thirteen year old daughters hand on the stove by accident, which she swears was never her intention. Listening to her story and her background it is clear that this woman needs some help. It seems to me that she is a loving and devoted mother but is lacking the resources and guidance that is necessary in raining three children. Through properly
using all three levels of practice this will allow the social worker to provide helpful and effective resources in furthering her in her life and with her children.
encourage her to help develop parenting classes and/or refer her to one which would then be more on a Micro level of practice. On a Macro level there could be many ways to help her and better her living conditions with her kids. First, there could be grants written towards making recreational programs, or organizing facilities and activities for kids; maybe even changing policy of classes and organizing neighborhoods and communities. Through the grants maybe there could be free bus services or a development plan to clean up the streets to make it a safer environment free of drugs and corruption. worker can also encourage their client to take part in organizing and developing a safe neighborhood. By giving the The social
client options it opens their eyes to a wide variety of options that they can choose for themselves because in the end they are
extremely vital to the client and the social worker that the information is used to best benefit the client and their issues. It is also important to create a comfortable and trusting environment in order to get as much useful information to help the client flourish and succeed. It is clear that the client has dealt with her share of problems over the course of her life and has struggled with abandonment, financial security and issues on how to manage a
the social worker didnt become alarmed or defensive in order to be able to build a trusting and comforting environment with the client. Over the deration of the session it was easy to see
that the client had opened up more and had gained a somewhat trusting relationship with the social worker, especially in comparison form before. With gaining the clients trust the social worker was able to build a great foundation to help assist the client. The client had been given limited opportunities over the duration of her lifetime and has now been provided with some resources that will help her better her childrens and her life. The client had finally felt comfortable enough to open up with someone all because of how she was approached, which was in a non-invasive and non-judgmental way. The way the social worker
approached the issues the client was dealing with allowed her to trust enough so they were both able to work together in finding the best solution to her problems.