Cultural Case Studies

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The Sanchez family wants the local social service agency to provide a psychosocial assessment. As a social worker at the agency, they will apply sociocultural and social change lenses. To demonstrate an understanding how each of the theoretical or perspective lenses can apply to the Sanchez family case. To identify their problems, determine their skills and capacities, what they are doing well, how they accomplish it and then analyze ways that those strengths might apply to the identified problems.

America has a staggering problem among its youths and is in desperate need of help. Every day, young, innocent children are being abused. Unfortunately, this rate only seems to be growing as the foster care system is becoming flooded with children who need help. According to the website, Foster Club, a child is entered into the foster care system every two minutes. The reasoning for a child being placed in foster care can range, but mostly it is because of abuse. These traumatizing experiences and memories can hinder a person for the rest of their life. These kids find themselves in a terrible situation and learn ways to cope with the pain. It can be easy to judge their behaviors but for somebody with a normal life we can never understand the trials that they have had to live through. Fortunately, the psychological damage that is done can be reversed but in order to understand this fully we first need to know the negative psychological affects abuse can have on a person.

That's when she faced a difficult ethical decision: She could order the shirts from a low-cost company in China or she could order them from a fair-trade company in San Francisco, which provided safe conditions and higher wages for the workers who made the clothing. The fair trade shirts were $28.65,making the grand total for her project $8,595. In contrast, the Chinese T-shirts were $5.50 each, and the company's Web site promised fast and free delivery for a grand total of $1,100.

It is important to respect and understand a child and their families culture because if educators don’t it can make it difficult for families to feel a sense of belonging to the centre. As educators it is important for us to help families and their children develop a cultural identity and sense of belonging but it is important we don’t change the families parenting style, we just assist them in any way we can. It helps children feel positive about their culture if they feel a sense of belonging within a child care, school and community. Educators can use the internet and community to learn more about the languages, traditions, beliefs and values of the children’s cultures so that they can help the children feel more positive about their culture

By respecting, understanding and including a child’s culture you can encourage their confidence and growth as a person. By helping a child to accept and embrace their culture and to be truly proud of it they can have a stronger sense of confidence in themselves, and with today’s media that is something that the children can use. If the children have confidence in themselves it allows them to be comfortable in their surroundings and this way they can open themselves to new experiences, learning or otherwise. Not only will it help the child with feeling confident but it will help the educator to further their own knowledge of the culture and assist them in being empathetic towards the child and their parents. By respecting, understanding and

Children learn to act in accordance to their culture due to what their parents teach them and what they learn in school. Different countries have their own way of cooking, driving and most important, teaching. A child who is in a preschool in America, will not experience the same cultural activities as a child in China or Japan. The video Preschool in Three Cultures Revisited demonstrates how preschools in these three countries teach their students in accordance to their culture. This video also shows different Behaviorism and Constructivism aspects for each school.

Being open minded to the different practices and environment allows us to learn more about a person individually. Not only that it allows us to learn innovated ways practices may or may not work within our own children and families that can make impacts. Overall this class has changed how similar and different families and children are raised within their culture as it is a huge role to their personal

It must be the foster parents and social workers job to understand these children’s situations and adjust a tailored plan for the child’s future. Children need to be saved from toxic situations, to protect their developing brains to secure their future. On the other hand, not all foster homes are toxic and abusive, It’s the homes the child comes from that is toxic. Understanding the effects of neglect and abuse is a crucial point that must be understood before taking in a child with such characteristics. There are literal effects that change brain function, that cause change in behavior and phycological difficulties. Being aware of these effects, caregivers should admit these children to therapy once

The young person this case study is about is a young boy named Tom; he is one years old and is currently in foster care due to his grandparents having concerns about his mother’s ability to care for him.

From class we can identify that David suffered from a surplus of risk factors within his family that included two alcoholic parents, an absent parent a majority of the time due to Father’s job as a firefighter, multiple siblings, and strain on the marriage (Block). He also experienced other risk factors from his mother due to her lack of coping mechanisms and the assumption that either something occurred in her past or she suffers from a psychological disorder as the root of the abuse as well as in his community in which he suffered from a lack of community cohesion as well as poor peer relationships (Block). These risk factors all contribute to the length of the abuse in which, the abuse was able to carry on due to the lack of opportunities for intervention from community members or peers. Contradictory to our class learnings in which younger children are put at a higher risk for abuse, David was actually the eldest in his family. Fortunately, David held the protective factor of having a good personality and wit that contributed to his resilience (Block). Throughout the abuse David remained more hopeful than one would expect in the presence of such harsh abuse

Mister might be at the higher risk in terms of interpersonal factors than those of individual. Since, he lives without adult monitoring. The relationship between Mister and his mother, Gloria, is considerably problematic. Gloria is totally incapable of meeting Mister’s physical and emotional needs. In response to maternal neglect, Mister exhibits aggressive and noncompliant behaviors. At this developmental stage, adolescents still need adequate parental supervision and only effective parenting skills could have protected Mister from the traumatic experiences (Nader, 2008). Moreover, Mister does not have a proper adult role model (father, any relatives, teachers, or neighbor etc.,), which is a significant disadvantage for his developmental

A CCK is considered to be a Cross-Cultural Kid. A CCK is a child that has grown up living in or has lived in an environment that has been influenced by two or more cultures. There are multiple types of a CCK. However, there are ten types of Cross-Cultural Kids that are the most common. The researcher Ruth Van Reken developed a model to show the different types of cross cultural kids. These kids include: Traditional TCK, Bi/multicultural children, Bi/multiracial children, Children of Borderlanders, Educational CCKs, Domestic TCK’s, International Adoptees, Children of Minorities, Children of Immigrants, and Children of Refugees. The list of categories continues to grow as more research is being done to consider who a Cross-Cultural Kid is. While these kids grew up in a two or more culture environment they also faced other issues in their lives.

Client reported that she was not able to sleep the day before the session because of her anger toward to the LDS church. Client reported that she is angry due to the fact that LDS's general conference presented anti-LGBTQ communities speeches during the past weekend. Client reported that although she is an atheist, she was raised as a LDS, and both her husband and her daughter are LDS. Client reported concerns for her daughter because she does not want her daughter to develop hatred toward LGBTQ populations. Client reported sadness toward social issues such as gun shot incidents. Client reported that she used to gain the sense of self-worth from others, but she was able to develop self-acceptance gradually throughout the course

The purpose of this case study is primarily to identify important factors of exceptional children with Down Syndrome, that can lead to different development in: cognitive skills, physical and emotional adaptation, intellectual ability and other characteristics that may interfere in all aspects of Early Childhood Development. I expect to bring awareness and understanding regarding exceptional children and how these differences affect their development.