Systemic Intervention And A Treatment Plan

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Systemic Intervention and a Treatment Plan
As it has been documented time and time again, drug abuse continues to be a huge health problem in the United States (Rowe, 2012). It is estimated that 4 million Americans and their families may be impacted by drugs or disorders that lead from the use of drugs (Rowe, 2012). Another 3 million by substance abuse or dependence on illicit or alcohol use (Rowe, 2012). The family I will be using for my scenario will be presented among those percentages.
In this scenario the children would have been the first to start treatment due to behavioral issues within school. Both children (sisters) were showing aggressive behavior at school towards other children. The little girls are both of young ages and were active within school activities. When these children were presented with questions such as friendship, both stated that “they had a lot of friends”. In turn these girls would tell their parents that they would be bullied, when in fact they were the ones doing the bulling. In this scenario the family would be low income and of a differentiated race.
Further along in the situation, it is found out that the children are having issues at home. The youngest child has mentioned to a staff member that they do not like how many people were living at her home, in which the child starts to show additional emotion. The eldest child had discussed her mother’s drinking with a different staff member and that her mother “promised that she would stop, but she has not.” Relational issues have been known within the house hold with parents and have been affecting the children. Parents are separating due to abusive relations. Children know about abusive relations. Have seen after affects but never s...

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However, I have watched a family break apart because of drugs as well because one of the parents was not as involved as the other and was not willing to give up illicit drugs (Meth) for his family. I watched the family deteriorate, and there was nothing I could do. The parent had no problem signing over parental rights, without a thought. This was hard for me to understand being a parent myself.
I am not completely sure if these would be the goals the client would set for this possible scenario and I am still not solid in setting interventions, selecting the correct therapeutic practice for any certain client, but I would hope this would work out. I never know what is going to work correctly till I am faced with the task at hand. My clients help guide me more than anything, which is one of the things I love about SBFT. It is, after all, their therapy.

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