Opsal Summary And Analysis

Her parents consistently chose to spend money on drugs and moved in with Christine’s uncle after she had been removed. Christine’s uncle took advantage of her and violated her personal boundaries for years before she was taken from his care. These situations shaped her behavior and she now has to learn adaptive behaviors that will enable her to succeed in life. Behavior therapy is also applicable to Christine’s case because it is an active and engaging therapy model (Antony, 2014). The social worker believed that if she were to use a less active model of therapy, Christine would lose interest and be less motivated to achieve her

Angela is currently in the maintenance stage. In this stage, “a person tries to maintain the change that resulted from her actions, without relapsing” (p. 130). Angela over the past 20 years has been battling with alcoholism and has been throughout various stages of change in that time. In the maintenance stage, it is important to develop skills to cope with outside stressors (p. 130). For the last 3 years, specifically the last 11 months, she has been mastering the ability to sustain new behaviors with minimum effort. These include “a detailed functional analysis of her drinking (the determinants, immediate and longer term consequences, expected negative effects and benefits of drinking, etc.), development of alternatives to drinking (including stress management, avoiding situations associated with previous heavy drinking, coping with cravings and urges, and drink refusal skills), the inclusion of Peter in portions of treatment to incorporate his support and encouragement, and the development of plans to prevent relapse or at least to minimize drinking, should a slip occur.”

As I talked to Rihanna about her reason’s for being in the credit recovery program, her personal history and her hobbies, I felt a deep sense of empathy and compassion for Rihanna. Her experience of having to live in foster care at a young age and with family members that were not her parents made me feel sad and angry for her. I was overwhelmed with feelings as she shared all the responsibility she had towards taking care of her mother and sister and I felt an instant need to empower her as she talked about her loss of identity. My reaction towards this client is part of the unconscious countertransference that were taking place, as I felt pity for this student in our session (Comas-Dias and Jacobson, 1991, pg. 397). I noticed that Rihanna

Have you been confused by language often used outside of your community? Communities are not the same in such aspects. All may communicate different to reach a certain goal. As an OPS1 (Operations Specialist 1) at Birmingham Shuttlesworth Airport, my team and I, are to handle all airport operations to and through security checkpoints, and customer service assist. In my community our terms are often misinterpreted. We have a transportation system that is quite different than others. Also, our security is taken seriously for the safety of our customers and pilots. In my community, as an Operation Specialist 1, we communicate by using different terms, also through transportation, and our relentless security system.

As a final concern, Emilia’s economic status must be considered in detailing what resources she has within her social system that does not relate to an interpersonal relationship. Financial burden is a natural aspect of life that can both help relieve and impose burdens upon an individual during a myriad of different interactions. Emilia’s lack of education and training stemming from consistent drug use has limited many of her options, so too does her limited relationship pool give her access to financial aid from her relatives. While the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation may be a location within her city to help Emilia expand her educational needs and fulfill her desire to further her skills, the city’s Drug Rehabilitation Center

A valuable step in any policy process is evaluation. A S.W.O.T. analysis examines the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of any program. This can be powerful tool for policy and program evaluation as it is designed to identify any areas for improvement or those that are sustainable (Milstead, 2016). Using the S.W.O.T. analysis for suicide prevention is used as a beginning framework for evaluation (Appendix).

Within the analysis of the dissertation, it has been recognised that there were three key themes associated with my findings: mental health, gender and drug addiction. We will dis-cuss the three documents chosen and highlight the themes which occurred. Though gender didn’t appear as much in two of the documents, it has relevance to the dissertation and was titled within the MoJ document, which recorded a high degree of statistics relating to gender. Following on from the three themed discourses I have highlighted, it has helped shape further background research, which has independently helped to answer the research question:

The students realized that they were different from the people in the outside world. This fact struck fear into them because they too have to face one of humanity’s consequences: self-doubt. Kathy explains, “it’s like walking past a mirror you’ve walked past every day of your life, and suddenly it shows you something else, something troubling and strange.” Through this, Kathy depicts the struggle for self-approval and the remorseful truths that one must inevitably face. The image that Kathy shows implies a doppelganger effect, where the mirror image is a distorted reflection of herself.

Someone with a troubled past can still change for the better. The young lady has made a major lifestyle change after being released from the county jail four months is a long time but it gives people time to think about the path that they are going down and would want to change. Our society today is so selfish and critical that some still see that young lady as who she used to be, especially those she knew in her past. The young lady is considerate of her other peoples feeling and will not judge them she still is amiable towards them.

In this week’s class, we learned about the difficult situations that might arise when dealing with the criminal justice system and such things as trauma, mental health illness, and substance misuse. In addition, great emphasis was put on displaying resilience towards these situations in order to ensure that we make our self-care of utmost importance, and to guarantee our success in the criminal justice system (Abramson, 2017, Lecture on Mental disorders, trauma, and substance misuse). Furthermore, the knowledge and skills I have learned throughout the class and from the conference on dealing with trauma, mental illness, and substance misuse, will hopefully aid myself in the criminal justice system, as it is likely that I will be exposed to

Coming into this course I assumed that deciding who to interview would be a challenging task. However one of the individuals who came through the treatment center I worked was more than willing to share his life with me for this assignment. The individual, who i will be referring to as Sam throughout this paper, felt as though his substance abuse past would make a very interesting read.

In this response to the case study Mother with Addiction, I will analyze the social worker’s style of counseling by examining his goal that he set for a mother of two who is addicted to drugs and was having sex for drugs. I will scrutinize the goal for enhancement of the morality of the client by using the code of ethics to identify the ethical issues involved in the case study. I will discuss my understanding of what the role of a social worker entitles. I will identify the issues I find wrong with the intervention and offer alternative interventions using the Person-Centered approach. Then, I will break down how Carl Roger’s Personality Theory demonstrates where the client is.

Darren will be able to sit and listen to a story, identify characters, settings and major events in a story. He will be able to take frequent walks or breaks to regroup after work is completed to prevent outbursts. Darren will improve his ability to appropriately express his feelings to his teacher. During counseling he will describe positive/negative feelings that he is having as well as label moods that other people may have. I will continue discussing and implementing coping strategies to deal effectively with his frustrations. Darren will improve his ability to manage his anger and frustration. He will learn to use words to express his feelings appropriately. Darren will learn to utilize his coping strategies

Yes in order to be successful the relationship between operational and clinical prespectives is an important aspect when considering how patient flow affect the quality of service. You need people and machine to coornate quality informed care of patient flow through the hospital, outpatients service, office vists, rehabilitation and long trem care facilities. Communicating between providers and facilities enhances and decrease the risk of harm to the patient. Howevery, they argue, by managing the flow of elective surgeries, achieving timely and efficient transfer of patients from the intensive care units to medical/surgery units, and improving the flow of inpatients to long-term-care facilities, the emergency department will be able to more

This writer addressed with the patient about taking accountability of her action. The patient was tearful and says, "If you kick me out of here.......you guys are putting me back on the street to use heroin......do you want that?" This writer discussed about how TEAM have given the patient numerous of chances to make corrective actions of being in compliant with her treatment/ clinic's policies. This writer reviewed all notes with the patient about the numerous chances, her UDS results, and her dose history. The patient continues to make promises to change but nothing has prevail. No changes are made as the patient continues to AWOL from treatment and now, not attending the cocaine group. When the patient AWOL, she reports that she does not relapse at all, at which this writer commends the patient; however, the patient still needs to comply with daily