The client, Ali, is a 15 year old white female attending high school and living in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. She lives with her biological father, but her family system also includes her brother, Larry, biological mother, Carol, and maternal grandmother, Lucinda. She is in overall good health and there was no mention of any physical health concerns. However, based on the descriptions given by her relatives and Ali herself, as well as observations from the first meeting, Ali shows signs of anxiety, depression, and some difficulties understanding social cues. During this initial meeting, Ali and her family did not mention any specific religious or spiritual beliefs. They do practice Christian holidays, as they repeatedly mentioned how hard it is to celebrate Christmas as a big family, but they made no other references to religion. She identifies as a cisgender female and is heterosexual, though she admits to never having any type of romantic relationship before. It appears that she is in the majority race at her high school and does not typically face any racial discrimination. However, Ali says that she occasionally feels the effects of classism since North Kingstown is one of the more affluent towns in the state. She mentioned that she sometimes feels her …show more content…
She knows they will always be ready to do a group project together or sit with her at lunch, but never sees them after school or on the weekends. She did not mention being a part of any extracurricular activities, which are usually beneficial for adolescents to form social ties with one another. It appears that the second someone appears to get too attached, she drops them from her life and refuses to have any more contact with them. Ali prefers to keep her home and school lives separate and has difficulties with truly deeply connecting with those around
Alameda has had a hard life as a young girl growing up, both of her parents were alcoholics. Alameda was a 16 year old minor who had a baby and dropped out of school, and then was unable to care for the infant. A case manager by the name of Barbara LaRosa was assigned to Alameda case. Barbara took on Alameda as her client and made a visit to her parents’ home, while making the visit she found Alameda dad incompetent, and could not get any information from him to help with his daughter well-being.
In New York, a minor can obtain mental health services, including counseling and medication management, without the legal guardian’s permission if the parent is deemed detrimental to the minor’s treatment (Feierman, Lieberman, Schissel, Diller, Kim & Chu, 2002). While this agency does prefer to obtain a guardian’s permission for mental health services, this social worker believes in taking a “person first” approach to treatment. Precious reported that she suffered a great deal at the hand of her mother and she did not want her involved in her life. It is not this social worker’s mission to cause Precious more harm, or to allow treatment to be impeded, even if this is an unpopular choice. This social work stands by this decision, because Precious is in desperate need of a safe space to process her trauma.
Shaniya Robinson arrives at the County Human Services Authority for her monthly appointment with her social worker. Ms. Robinson is a 25 year old African American female who is receiving treatment for schizophrenia from the adult behavioral health services program. During a session the client reports that she is under a great deal of stress because she is having difficulty adjusting to being a new mother. Her five month old baby girl Shanice is teething and cries frequently. Ms. Robinson is also struggling financially because she is currently unemployed; her mental illness makes it difficult to sustain employment long term. And she does not receive support from the child’s father on a consistent basis. The combination of these interactional difficulties is weighing heavily on the client who reports an increase in positive and negative symptoms (i.e. auditory hallucinations and social withdrawal). Because the client does not have insurance she disclosed to her social worker that she self-medicates using marijuana in an effort to manage symptoms. More noteworthy, the client explains that she uses the same method to soothe the baby by blowing marijuana smoke in the infant's face. It is certain that Ms. Robinson divulged such information for several reasons, she wants help and she believes that any information she shares within the context of her sessions are confidential.
Other background information that must be cleared up concerns history of traumas, domestic violence, housing status, primary usage of drugs, mental health problem in family, cases of hospitalization, treatment, previous usage of medication. All these items can influence current client's condition. Despite, as Meredith’s sister Sarah also has some personal problems, it is necessary to find out the origin of it; Sarah might have personal disorder that is inherited, so Meredith is under the risk to have it.
Today client number 9302015 came into the Salinas County Psychology Center. His name was Joe Martin also known as Curley. Joe is 40 years old and married. He is also financially stable. His social and family history doesn't have a lot of background because he refused to tell me lots about it. Since he is mean and angry towards others he said that he doesn't have much of a family except for his dad who really isn't around him very much. He has a wife, but he doesn't really care for her. He said he tells her to stay in the house and not to interact with others. When he was questioned why, he remained silent. His background on his medical and mental health history has more information when we discussed this topic. He
June Amberg, is a twenty- one year old African American female. She is 6 ft. tall and weighs about 190 pounds. She has long braids, dark skin with brown eyes. June stated to be a Baptist however is not a consistent member of the church. She is married to Ruben Amberg for the past two years however, she is separated from him. The client related with Clinician because she is from the same race, and grew up in same neighborhood. June was very comfortable in sharing information about her upbringings, her struggles, and mishaps without any fear of being judge. June’s emotional state varies between being manic and being calm during her sessions. June has worked in retail as a Sale Representative for the past 5 years. She lives with mother, Mona Faron who is sixty years old, her sister Jona Faron who is thirty years old, and her twin sister Jessie with her three children James(3), Jessica(2), and Jacob(1) in a two bedroom apartment. She has received treatment for her depression with Jewish Board Family Children Services in the past.
A. My interest in social work began at a young age. In middle school I started attending my school’s church and became heavily involved in the church’s youth group. It was then that I was first introduced to the act of service and what it really means to help others. As part of our activities, we would feed the homeless and visit convalescent hospitals to volunteer. By participating in these activities, I began to take interest in the homeless and elderly populations. Another avenue that sparked my interest in Social Work was a classmate’s father, who was a Social Worker for the county. He and I would have discussions about the duty of a Social Worker and I would constantly ask him questions to satiate my curiosity about the profession.
This essay will be explaining the definition of sociology, the sociological factors of obesity using Symbolic Interactionism Theory and the Functionalism Theory and a description of the medical condition obesity and how it may affect individuals suffering from it.
In my interview I chose my girlfriend's neighbor. Hector is of Mexican decent and he is here because in Meigs county the produce fields hire Mexican laborers on worker permits. Hector started out doing this then he became the boss about five years ago and received his green card and now is an American and can speak very good English. He explained to me that in Mexico there is no age when you can start working so there are young boys working at six to ten years old to help support his needy family. He also stated that women do not usually work they are only aloud to go to the village markets and get goods for their family's and raise there many children. I asked about minimum wage and he kinda laughed and said some teens and men who work are lucky to get a dollar an hour, but he said the people who are lucky enough to get to do what he got to do make there family's a lot of money. He said when he started coming to America to work he was picked like a lottery pick because there are only so many jobs for little positions he and his entire family was dirt poor, but now he said his family is the richest in the village. He said that he has also got to move all of his immediate family to America.
Beuys Dorminvil Sociology 31 Final Essay. Being someone who had no prior knowledge of sociology before attending college. This particular subject is extremely fascinating. It did, in fact, force me to think outside of the box. Allowing me to become aware of myself and my contributions to my society, as well as becoming more mindful of other cultures and their societies.
Sociology is distinguished by the study of sociology theories, which play a significant key role in enabling us to analyze different societies. Sociology theories give us different outlooks different perspectives within factors of different societies that can be analyzed. This will make it easier for someone to understand and predict social behavior and happenings within societies that offer great importance to our generation. This author will focus on sociologist concepts that are related to the videos for our assignments and factors that have been put into consideration including: aging, discrimination and social theories with an increase in the size of the older population in relation to the younger generation. These videos in relating to aging, discrimination and social satisfaction I am going to analyze the findings that were a result in which will give an analytical detail of aging.
Before I started taking the course of sociology I wasn’t really expecting to learn anything, it was just supposed to be an easy online class. However, that was not the case. It challenged my mind. I started to see sociology all around me, starting with family, then friends, and how I see things overall in general. The fact that we have an everyday life in which there are patterns in ways of living is what sets a platform for a sociological breakdown and for being a part in what we do. A better way of understanding ourselves. We use sociology in many ways every day. One central and important study of sociology is the study of everyday social life. Everyday life and sociology are definitely two different words and situations, but they tend to hold a close relationship. While sociology is the study of the human interaction, everyday life consists of everyday human interaction. Everyday life is filled by human beings interacting with one another, ideas, and emotions. Sociology studies the interactions with all of these and shows how mere interaction resulted in things such as ideas. For an example, race and ethnicity are important concepts in the field of sociology and are ones that are studied a great deal. Race plays a large role in everyday human interactions and sociologists want to study how, why, and what the outcomes are of these interactions. Current sociological theories focus mainly on how there are many different factors in our everyday items of life, like movies. We were assigned a final to write a review for a movie in sociological form. The movie that was on the list that also happened to be one of my favorite movies, Toy Story. When we were assigned the assignment, I never thought about how in-depth it was with sociol...
ignores the subjective nature of social problems." [2] This becomes apparent when one realizes that not all harmful conditions are considered to be social problems, such as the nutritional concerns of a high fat diet. Another flaw in considering social problems to be the result of objective conditions of harm is that "the objective conditions that people define as social problems have relatively little in common." [3] A list of social problems will have a great
Sociology and psychology is the study of the mind and the environment around us which makes us who we are. These theories assist us to understand behaviour from individual and societal levels.
Social Psychologist tend to ask questions when they want to answer a question about people’s behavior. Why do people do the things they do? Social psychologists want to explain this behavior. For example, the questions, “why do we hurt each other? Why does genocide happen?” can be answered by testing a hypothesis formed from their previous knowledge. To approach this question, social psychologist can use what they have observed to create an experiment. There are many influences on aggression, such as: the physical environment, wealth inequality, social rejection, culture, and media. Social psychologists use all this information to conduct their studies to explain why people hurt others and how people can even participate in genocide.