Interventions are conducted in an attempt to identify effective strategies and techniques that can assist client in obtaining resources and achieving his goals. Coordination services among internal programs and other providers will cultivate positive results, in strengthening client’s ability to achieve his goal and overcome his problems.
The initial intervention plan is to replace client’s problem behaviors with positive behavior by highlighting his strengths and providing meaningful reinforcements. For instance, client often gets angry with his mother or peers, to solve this situation client can be taught strategies to understand and manage his anger in a positive way. Client can also be taught how to identify anger triggers and how to express his anger in a more positive way. Client may learn these strategies in-group sessions or during individual sessions. Anger management groups are offered at the agency once weekly.
The Intervention is also based on improving family relations. With client’s consent, contacts have been made with his mother to keep her informed of the program and client’s progress. Client’s mother has been invited to several group sessions where discussion was based on client’s feelings, evaluating consequences of his behavior, and reflecting on how he can change his behavior and response without conflict. Overall he was finally able to share the reality of his problems with his mother.
One of the goals of improving his relationship with his mother is
Family Therapy can be implemented in a different ways in a program that provides a facet of services, but it’s imperative that the approaches used are appropriate for the individual or families utilizing services. Functional Family Therapy is used to help deal with substance abuse in families but can also be used to assist with behavioral issues in children. A well rounded family service program can not only use this one approach but utilize other approaches to meet the needs of the population being served. And while implementing the service ethics will play a major role in the therapy being providing.
Family is something that plays a tremendous role in our life. Even though the structure of families has changed over the years, it is important to acknowledge that there many families out there whether they are traditional families, nuclear family, stepfamilies or others which tend to have different types of problems in their families. Therefore, many families attempt to go to family therapy in order for them to obtain help in solving the different types of issues they might have at home. As stated in the book Family Therapy by Michael P. Nichols (2013), “The power of family therapy derives from bringing parents and children together to transform their interaction… What keeps people stuck in their inability to see their own participation in the problems that plague them. With eyes fixed firmly on what recalcitrant others are doing, it’s hard for most people to see the patterns that bind them together. The family therapist’s job is to give them a wake-up call” (2013).
Re-directing negative behavior is of most importance. As a provider, it is our most ardent task to help children deal with feelings of anger, anxiety, frustration, even violence. Constant counseling and re-direction is given to the children at every step. Reward and consequence is instilled in each direction of counseling. Self-regulation, control, and guidance will constantly be encouraged in my setting.
Client 2 had small changes from the baseline to intervention (Gliner, Harmon, & Morgan, 2000). Client 3 showed improvement in the baseline and invention (Gliner, Harmon, & Morgan, 2000). Client 4 showed there were slight improvement from baseline to intervention (Gliner, Harmon, & Morgan, 2000). Client 5 had overall improvement. Client 6 had minimal change from baseline to intervention (Gliner, Harmon, & Morgan, 2000). Client 7 showed improvement from baseline to intervention. Client 8 showed great improvement (Gliner, Harmon, & Morgan, 2000). Based on the high anger control scale scores the students that receive anger control training have shown patterns of improvement (Gliner, Harmon, & Morgan,
1) In sessions 1 and 2, the therapist will provide psychoeducation to Robert as it relates to the cognitive-behavioral treatment intervention to address his anger outbursts. The therapist will explain and help Robert identify his thoughts, emotions and behaviors that contribute to his anger and physical outbursts. The therapist will focus on the behavioral perspective and explain how antecedents and consequences influence behavior.
My first assumption of family therapy was to involve the parents and the individual that had the problem. This book explored further what it
1: provide behavioral support and guidances as by treatment plan, through positive reinforcement, behavioral interventions and redirection when necessary.
The model to use with the Jacques family would be the cognitive-behavior. The cognitive-behavior therapy offers different treatment. These treatments include adjunctive interventions, communal needs, and aversive control (Wetchler et. al., 2015). The adjunctive interventions would be to look at their behavior interaction. This would include that the Jacques family becomes aware of their communication skills. Communal needs involve the Jacques family learning intimacy, nurturance, and
Opening up to me further, he began to state that he had an anger management problem and that he, most likely, would want to exact revenge on society for the undeserved treatment he got from them growing up as a child from a troubled home. He continued to make allusions to his past, stating that when he was in elementary and high school, people would avoid him because he was an angry child. I assured him that there was hope for him that we could collaboratively work out something, there would be a solution to all his problems. I stressed that the integrated plan we were utilizing for his treatment would be jointly developed and inclusive of all elements required for interventions with him, rather than being solely a championed risk-based plan developed by
The family is made up of five people: Claudia, the IP; Carolyn, mother; Laura, the sister; Don, the brother; and David, the father. The family is coming into therapy because there have been mounting concerns about Claudia and her behavior—acting out, staying out late, some fairly typical teenage stuff. For the purpose of this paper, I will be starting at the beginning where the family is first coming into therapy. I will first school that I will apply is Structural Family Therapy and the second school is Bowen Family Therapy.
The treatment goal is for the client to learn effective ways to manage her anger. The primary goal is for the client to identify strategies and techniques that will allow her to deal with her anger and to recognize events and cues that can trigger her anger to intensify. Another goal is for the client to analyze family patterns and how her family dealt with anger and other emotions and how past interactions can impact her current thoughts, feelings and behaviors. By identifying strategies and recognizing cues and past patterns the client will be able to focus on managing her anger and using effective techniques in order to reduce her anger.
therapy aims to improve family relations, and the family is encouraged to become a type of
Becvar, D. & Becvar R. (2009). Family therapy: a systemic integration. (7th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson Education.
The first long-term goal is to improve communication skills among each family member. The interventions created to achieve this goal includes: 1) Rosalyn and Carl will complete weekly worksheets and homework assignments provided by their family therapist, 2) Each family member will learn and practice using I-statements to decreasing blaming behavior and increase self awareness, and 3) Each family member will write a letter to address one another and identify how their feelings in regards to the problems identified in therapy along with their ideas of how they can be a part of the solution to decrease the anxiety in the family.
The theory that will be integrated in Emily’s practice for Heather is the family structure approach. According to Kaur, Pote, Fox, and Paradisopoulos, this intervention too useful for assisting individuals who are experiencing an antisocial behavior. Although, the therapy examines the client’s family system and dysfunctional patterns (Kaur et al., 2017). Since the client is supported by her parents, however, distant from her sister, this therapy can help with the parental hierarchy stresses between the mother and father.