Izzie Case Study

Not all clients are resistant, not all organizations are uncooperative, not all communities are hopeless, and not all families are dysfunctional. I remember having a foster family my supervisor and I had a visit with while completing in-home visits. The purpose of this visit was to check-in with a client who we had recently placed there due to leaving their previous foster home for drug possession. When my supervisor and I met with the family we did not expect the report that we received on that day. The foster mother reported that she enjoyed having the client in the home and that she views them as one of her own biological children. My supervisor and enjoyed this visit because we were able to see how the family and the client got along. When the client first entered the Department of Social Services they had trust issues and was struggling with their anger. In my opinion, the client was angry and had trust issues because of the relationship they had with their biological mother. After seeing the client in the home with their new foster family the client was responsive to questions and reported that they enjoyed living with the family. They stated, “It feels good to finally be in a home where people actually seem to care about my well-being.” By hearing the client’s statement and observing them in the foster home I felt joy that my supervisor and I was able to find a home where their needs are being

Children suffer significantly until someone decides to protect them. The government allocates funds to establish the foster care system and that system advances to enforce rights for children. When the right to remove children from an abusive situation first originated, the foster care system established a separation procedure for children from their abusive homes. This act of removing children from their families brought about psychological issues and trauma. Throughout earlier years, the foster care system adjusted their program according to the rules and regulations established to provide for the needs of children. However, problems keep appearing elsewhere. These children endure the brunt of every new philosophy in behavioral health management. Often, the biological parents will be left out of the solution. The foster care system develops services to train foster families in caring for foster children and behavioral issues. For some reason, the foster care system believes improvement simpler to reform the children and makes a trivial attempt of the reformation with family. The foster care system needs to try to achieve bonds within the biological family instead of the sole reliability on removal of children to be an adequate answer. The foster care system’s obligation should be to develop a training system for the rehabilitation of families and offer support to achieve the greatest outcome in child rearing. Foster care needs to adapt to supporting families emotionally,

Based on the facts of the case, the observations and interviews conducted during the home study assessment, as well as contacts made with collateral references, this interviewer recommend the home as a potential placement and have identified the following strengths and areas of concern regarding the potential placement:

For example, Tracey could explore what may occur if she is not allowed to see her male friend or interact with her sister a year from now. Using this technique will not only foster attention to Tracey’s discomforts but will allow the family to engage in a difficult communication that the social worker can best identify the current problematic support patterns and dynamics. My favorite, reframing, will allow the therapist to place a problem, Tracey’s unproductive behaviors around the house, into a different context so that problem can be more workable for Tracey and the foster family. For example, the therapist could reframe Tracey’s behaviors as intentions to connect with the family outside the house or have time outside of the house with clear boundaries. SFT will be effective because of it has clear and limited therapist’s role, which will ensure that the family and all members involved in the treatment are processing and doing most of the therapeutic work. Overall, providing therapeutic services to adolescents in the child welfare system requires exploring inherited family patterns and the new family’s boundaries, dynamics, hierarchies, rules and rituals. Thus, requiring the involvement of the whole family, biologically and foster families, to reduced, eliminate or examine the teen’s

-Shifting the family’s view of treatment from focusing on the adolescent as “the problem” to enhancement of family relationships as an important part of the solution.

This inability to cope with their child’s intellectual or developmental disability often leads to improper care, and in extreme cases, abuse. Aside from the abovementioned causes, a small percentage of placement is due to particular environmental factors such as financial need, inadequate housing, or chronic unemployment, but poverty frequently contributes to the crises that require children to be placed in foster care (McDonald). While the overall goal is to reunite these children back with their families, sometimes that option isn’t feasible and while some children are fortunate enough to gain kinship care, others aren’t as fortunate. “Foster care includes a wide variety of placement options including emergency shelters, diagnostic centers, foster boarding homes, kinship foster homes, agency-operated boarding homes, group homes, group residences, child care institutions and residential treatment centers” (FC & EC). With so many options for placement that a child can be exposed to, it provides various dimensions that can impact child development, especially with those with past trauma history. The type of residence a child is placed in, whether it’s kin or non-kin, how many children are already in the residence, the type of staff and the support services provided all play a crucial role in their developing growth and overall success in the system.

Nyteria would benefit from Psychosocial Rehabilitation, Family Support, medication management and weekly Behavior Modification. The needed services would stabilize foster care placement, learn independent living skills to increase self-care, coping skills to decrease emotional and behavioral impairments. Behavior Modification is needed to alter inappropriate and undesirable patterns of behaviors through interventions designed to optimize emotional and behavioral functioning.

Even if Annette B. did not currently have stability in her foster home or group home yet, it does not mean that keeping the option open for Joseph to retain custody of Annette B. would be in her best interest. DSS should continue to look for suitable adoptive parents for Annette B. to provide her with a quality, structured life. It should be DSS’s goal to show that “all children, no matter their origin or circumstances, are worth every ounce of effort it may take to help them overcome the ill effects of their early hard experiences,” which was clearly evident through her father’s physical and emotional abandonment since she was a young child (Jerkins,

Staying in a troubled home can be better than foster care placement. Joseph J. Doyle

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James and Samantha where referred to the school behavior specialist. Truly that is only a start to the process. The aunt also needs help on why she is in a shelter for abused women and children. There is going to be different types of support needed, from, school, to understanding why their parents are in prison and know living in a shelter and a new school.

The interaction of father and son might indicate that the child would be better off in a residential or Youth Camp

Ryon, S. B., Early, K. W., Hand, G. & Chapman, S. (2013). Escalation and Effective Alternatives to Residential Placement, 52, 358-375

One way Maurice William’s faces problems in the foster homes is to have a meeting with every foster parent under their program every three months. In this meeting, all issues are discussed in great length and an appropriate procedure to deal with each specific problem are agreed upon and implemented so that the problems do not come up

Other challenges that I would address are the heavy influences of drugs in the community, Ree’s status as a high school dropout, and the unknown mental illness that the mom