Social Workers Case Summary

Mrs. Estell is a 47-year-old female here today for followup and discussion of recent events in her life. The patient has not been seen in the office since December 2014.

Kris is a 65 year old white female. She is currently an entrepreneur and also the manager to five of her children. Kris has a convenient lifestyle. She has a house and gets frequent visits from her children, kimberly (age 34), khloe (age 32), kourtney (36), Rob (age 29), Kendall (age 20), and Kylie (age 19).

his worker met with Anthony at home (1405 21st Avenue North apt #1). The interview was recorded and privacy practice were verbally reviewed.

Ms. Apple is a 45 year old African American woman who has been a widow for about 4 years. Ms. Apple has three children, whose ages range from 5-12 years old. Ms. Apple has been struggling to keep her family afloat since the death of her husband. Ms. Apple convinced herself that she would not require the extra assistance. However, she realized in attempting to provide alone has not only become very strenuous, but also quite costly. Expenses have become overwhelming for Ms. Apple to maintain, since her husband took care of the finances and was the breadwinner for the family. Ms. Apple has minimal education as she is able to read and write at grade school level. Ms. Apple also has never been employed as she was a home maker. At this

When therapist met with the Client at school, therapist did check in client reporting any behavioral issues or conflict at home or at school and client reported that he is sometimes fighting with his sister at home around toys or her room because he wants to enter her room and play with her belongings and his sister does not allow him do do that 7Xs/week out of 7Xs/week. The client reported that he was not fighting at all at school, but the class teacher 3 warnings because he does not follow the class rules and he speaks without permission or taking turn. Client reported that his mood is happy because he likes to be at school and play with his classmates. Therapist discussed with client the alternative behavior when he gets involved in a conflict

Today, we have a patient arrive for a scheduled appointment, self-referred, with her sister. The client, Anika, is a 31 year old female of Indian decent. She has never been married or have any children as well. She is a part time graduate student in Library Sciences and currently holds a 3.79 GPA. Anika is also a full time employee at a bank. Originally from Boston, she now lives in Western New York to attend school. When she arrives for the appointment, she is properly dressed, not a crease in her clothes, or a hair out of place, and is average height and weight. She is cooperative with the appointment process and also provides logical information pertaining to the questions at hand. On the paperwork given to Anika, she states that she was demanded by her sister to attend the appointment, unclear exactly why her sister wants her to come. Her sister replies that Anika is very “stubborn” and “inflexible” with everyday life and, therefore, causes tension between them. When asked about her general lifestyle, Anika states she devotes almost all of her time to work. Working 40+ hours at the bank, and also being the part time student, the client says she lacks time for hobbies with friends and family. Even in her place of employment, she doesn’t have

The main goal of Social Work practice is the psychosocial improvement of the individuals within a system and the system where they operate. Social Work has three different concentrations, Micro practice, Mezzo practice and Macro practice. Micro practice focuses on individual and small groups such as couples, families and groups. This practice is more direct or face to face intervention. Mezzo practice focuses in medium communities, it can be face to face or indirect practice. And Macro practice focuses on larger systems such as organizations, institutions, regions and countries. In this paper I will compare the role of Social Work intervention in Jose’s situation, young Hispanic LGBT, and the current situation of the LBGT community from the

Christine is in a particularly vulnerable position right now. Not only is she an adolescent on the verge of adulthood, but she is also in foster care. She is trying to achieve a sense of autonomy for herself, but she has several adults determining what happens in her life. Unlike typical teenagers who only struggle against the protection of their parents, Christine has case workers, lawyers, foster care supervisors, and foster parents in addition to her biological parents. Her foster care Case Manager needs to stand out as someone Christine can trust and feel comfortable talking to about her life.

There are several goals that we have for Joel to improve on his social skills. One objective that we have for Joel is to reduce passive aggressive behaviors toward others. This would include specific examples such as rolling his eyes when a student says a wrong answer as this may lead to further ostracism and increased likelihood of being bullied. Another social orientated objective that we have for him is to be less withdrawn and shy. Our objective in this area will encourage him to put himself out there a little more and be more outgoing. One more socially orientated objective that we have for Joel is to be a little more mellow. A few different teachers have described him as tense. Being less tense may allow his

Prior to taking the Elders course, I had limited interactions with older adults and was not aware about the services that are needed for this specific population. Throughout the course, I was exposed to many readings, lectures and guest speakers that enabled me to gain copious amounts of new information that gave me a deeper look into the lives of older adults. I recognized the importance of social workers’ understanding, and familiarizing themselves with policies that affect this population. Throughout the education process to become a social worker, students are exposed to many social theories, but this class specifically focused on the ones that directly apply to older adults. According to McInnis-Dittrich (2014), Social constructionism

On the contrary social and caseworkers have flaws when working on cases, but they still try their best to help families. As more issues come up, more changes are made to the system, Moyer explains how even if caseworkers are the problem for over years, there has been changes that don’t help the situation because they expanded the definition of child abuse and mandated reports. As the system changes some of the workers aren't well trained with new information, which can affect the way that deal with cases. Another reason why some workers struggle is due to budget cuts, May Bulman a social affairs correspondent explains the issue of budget cuts in her article “Record number in children in care as social services reach ‘tipping point’”. “The

Once upon a time, on 2010, there was a 17 year old named John who was a very creative guy. He was in San Pedro school, in 11th grade, and he was one of the best students because he had good grades, great friends and he knew how to play the guitar. He used his gift from God to make some concerts to collect money, so he could use that money to buy clothes, food and toys for the poor people.

Dan Sutton is currently the general manager of Pismo Oceano Vegetable Exchange also known as P.O.V.E. He was not just handed this job but he has worked hard in many different positions in the agriculture industry and worked his way up to this position. Dan got into the agriculture world at an early age when he would help his father out by working on his 5-acre kiwi farm. Dan loved farming with his dad as a hobby and was the only boy in the family who liked the work. He graduated with an Agricultural Business degree from Cal Poly in 2001 after 7 long years of being a student at Poly. He worked with agriculture companies over the summers and part time during his quarters at Cal Poly. The work was tough and he worked long hours trying to

On 1/22/18 I met Mr. Kreger at the office of Dr. Steinbach neurologist. The repeat CT scan of the brain was done prior to the appointment as directed. Mr. Kreger ambulates slowly. He is thinner than the last time I saw him. His wife reports he is not eating well and don't have much of an appetite. She also reports that he has a very short temper and will swear loudly when angered which is not in character. He said he has some odd feeling in his mouth when eating cold foods and his handwriting is sloppy and he will miss spell words. Per his wife, he was discharged from home therapy to outpatient physical and occupational therapy. They will pick a location soon. Dr. Steinbach said that the bleeds have resolved. He said there is still

Over the past two weeks, I have become involved in one of the LINK case manager’s new cases. The client is a 24-year-old, homeless woman, who is looking for housing, among other things. For the past two weeks, the client has been staying at the Dorothy Day House, but their two-week limit has ended. During the time that we have been working with her, we have gone to the Social Security offices, the government center, and bought her a pregnancy test, which turned out positive. We also drove to Austin to look at a possible apartment that the client could rent, and we are currently waiting to hear back from them.