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Family Therapy Case Study Essay

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The case study clients I chose to focus on is Abigail, the grandmother and her two grandsons, Adam and Robert. Adam and Robert have been living with their grandmother, Abigail for the past year, before living with their grandmother, the boys were living in a car with their mother, when the Department of Social Services (DSS), took the boys from her care. Adam and Robert’s mother as a severe addiction to drugs and their father is diagnosed with schizophrenia. While living with their parents, Adam and Robert would witness their parent’s volatile relationship, their mother has disappeared and hasn’t tried to contact them, and their father has limited to no contact. Adam has been hospitalized numerous times after attempting to commit suicide, he is having trouble sleeping, and tend to hide is affection, especially in front of his younger brother, Robert. Robert is creating small weapons at his after-school program, he is antisocial and isolate himself from others and becomes irate when adults showed him affection (Laureate Education, Inc., 2012). …show more content…

Therefore, to advocate for the family, I would have referrals for family and individual therapy and help Abigail, with a referral for the boys to receive, quality mental health treatment, because of Adam and Robert severe emotional and behavioral problems. They require intensive services because of their severe symptoms, low socioeconomic status, and exposure to various psychosocial stressors, according to (Zima et al., 2005). (Zima et al., 2005) also noted, when children receive quality mental health care, it contains psychosocial interventions, family involvement and appropriate connection to other services, like community-based treatment (Zoffness et al.,

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