Using the case study below, provide a detailed account
of your theory-based assessment and beginning interventions with
two of the following:
❖
Ecological Theory (systems)
❖
Theories of Loss and Grief (systems, social,
intrapersonal)
❖
Motivational Interviewing (cognitive/behavioural)
❖
Task-Centred Practice (behavioural)
❖ Working
with Families/Family Group Conferencing
(psycho-social)
❖
Narrative/Solution-Focused approaches (brief, short-term, lived
experience)
❖ Crisis
Theory (brief, short-term)
Think about which approaches might apply in the case
below. Critically comment on your proposed approaches by making
reference to the relevant academic literature and to your beginning
professional practice, if available. Briefly note any strengths as
well as any actions important to uphold the social work
values.
You should try to avoid or minimise repetition in terms
of the approaches.
Naomi: age 40
Aldane: age 45
Ayanna: age 15
Zwena, age 15
Ayanna, aged 15, lives with her mother Naomi and her father
Aldane in a suburb of London. The father, Aldane, is
currently unemployed due to an injury in construction work.
He has begun to drink to excess. The mother is working
two jobs, one as a cashier in a restaurant and one as a school bus
driver to make ends meet. Ayanna has difficulties with anxiety that
has led her to control her eating and she is now very thin.
She also has had periods of depression, but had always managed to
drag herself to school. Lately she has had mornings where she
refused to get up and shared her suicidal thoughts with her mother.
There is a lot of tension in the marriage due to financial
struggles. Further, Naomi’s mother and Ayanna’s grandmother who had
lived with the family and to whom Ayanna was close passed away two
months previously. Ayanna does have a close friend, Zwena, who has
tried to offer her support. The school counsellor was made aware of
concerns about Ayanna’s listlessness in class and tried to contact
the parents to schedule a meeting to discuss how they could all
support Ayanna, but neither Naomi nor Aldane made contact. Because
of increasing concerns about Ayanna’s mental health, she was
referred to a local authority. It is a social work question
Using the case study below, provide a detailed account of your theory-based assessment and beginning interventions with
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