Demonstrating a Systemic Approach

Demonstrating a Systemic Approach

Identify the developmental issues and analyze the risk factors for the child including a discussion of family and community resilience.  Include your reflections on the case family and what you have learned for your own practice.  The assignment requires the demonstration of a systemic approach to counseling a child. Using the film “INSIDE OUT”

Project Objectives

• Describe best practices for systemic assessment and diagnosis.
• Apply systemic assessment tools that are multicultural and developmentally appropriate.
• Develop a diagnosis based on relational observations using best practices in systemic assessment.
• Design a developmentally appropriate systemic intervention.
• Apply systemic interventions appropriately.
• Demonstrate thinking, awareness, and behaviors consistent with the legal and ethical guidelines provided by the state of Maryland and by professional associations.
• Cover how your background would impact your work with this family.
• Your reflections on the case family and what you have learned for your own practice.
• Update your genogram (see attachment) and include in the paper. It will not be graded if submitted separate.

Assignment Requirements

• Written Communication is thoughtful and free of errors that detract from the overall message.
• APA style and formatting.
• Minimum of six scholarly sources.
• Length of paper: 6–8 typed double-spaced pages. Additionally, a title page and references page.
• Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.

Addiction Treatment Plan

Assignment Instructions

• Identify a specific counseling theory that will guide interventions to work with the client and family system. (i.e., Bowenian therapy, brief strategic family therapy, sequential family addictions model, functional family therapy, multidimensional family therapy).
• Analyze the cultural considerations for the case and how the theory will guide multicultural appropriate application.
• Based upon the assessment summary, analyze the appropriate level of care.
• Analyze referrals that may be needed and a plan to coordinate with other treatment professionals.

Assignment Requirements

• Written communication is thoughtful and free of errors that detract from the overall message.
• Resources and citations are formatted according to the current APA style and formatting.
• Minimum of 6 scholarly sources. Distinguished submissions will likely exceed this number.
• Length of paper: 6–8 typed, double-spaced pages. Additionally, a title page and references page.
• Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.

Meet Hori

Hori is a 60-year-old male of Polynesian decent. He is married and the father of three adult children who all live on their own. Hori worked at a food processing plant for 20 years and advanced into a supervisory role until the company relocated a year ago leaving him unemployed for over 6 months. Hori is proud that he supported his family and created a home where his children were able to grow up and enjoy a good education. Unfortunately, he saved little for his own retirement and has not told his wife that their meager savings will soon be depleted. Hori recently found a position working in a recycling facility, but it pays only a fraction of what his previous position did. Hori is anguished as to how he will support his wife, and his mother who came to live with them from Fiji.

The Bills are Piling Up

Hori often pays bills after his wife and mother go to bed at night. He doesn’t want them to worry so he spends time carefully calculating the minimum payment for each creditor and noting on a calendar how late the payment can be mailed. His concentration has been rather poor so this takes him longer than usual. In spite of his efforts, some creditors have begun to call the house when the payments were late. His spirits have been steadily sinking as the reality of their finances broke his more characteristic optimism. He tells his family he is simply tired from the physical demands of this new job when they comment on how tired he looks, but this is only partly true. Lately, he has begun to drink as he pays the bills at night to help ease his mind. He has trouble sleeping so he reasons that maybe a drink or two may help him unwind. As he drinks, the reality of the bills do not go away so he drinks a little more. This pattern has developed into a nearly nightly cycle of looking at the bills and drinking as he makes little progress toward a solution. His situation is appearing increasingly hopeless. His life insurance policy is one bill he makes certain to pay. It may be his final option.

Trouble at Work

In the past month, Hori has found it difficult to get up in the morning for work due to his late nights with the bills. He has been late to work three times and the last time, his supervisor smelled alcohol. He confronted Hori. Hori told him that he simply had grabbed the wrong shirt in the morning by accident. Perhaps, he spilled a little something on the shirt the last time he wore it. Hori’s supervisor shared how he had tried to cover his own drinking years ago and offered Hori the chance to save his job if he agreed to follow the company’s referral process as part of Employee Assistance Plan. Feeling cornered, Hori agreed.