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Successful Intervention

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Factors Preventing the Success of the Interventions This subordinate theme is the negative case for the superordinate theme of interventions. The category identified as being the strongest in preventing the success of the interventions was having a challenging client. Following suit with the previously discussed category, participants described the biggest challenge as peers or families of the service user. To begin with, peers will be discussed with relevant quotes to follow. “You know, it’s challenging working with peers. They all have their own in jokes and you know, it is challenging and for us it’s about breaking down those negative, kind of, I suppose, urm, feelings they have towards the work and the staff.”(Shaun, Lines730-735, Page …show more content…

It’s not because of us in general. It’s because they don’t engage with any services…” (Sonia, Lines 836-839, Page 24). These quotes convey that the participants do not accept responsibility for the interventions failing, however blame it on the young person’s lack of interest in the intervention. This lack of interest can be related to motivation problems as a lack of motivation to change suggests that the young person is content and happy in the situation that they are in, essentially meaning that the interventions have no real use. This therefore encourages disengagement which in turn prevents the successfulness of the intervention. The latter discussion involved having a family that disagreed with the engagement with the service. Quotes relating to this can be found below and again the participants do not accept responsibility for the failing of the intervention. This time, the failed attempt was pinned onto the family and friends not agreeing with the service intervening. It was suggested that this usually occurs with antisocially active families who don’t want services prying, showing a direct link with the related family risk factors. As proposed earlier, social influence research regarding peer rejection (Laird, Jordan, Dodge, Pettit, & Bates, 2001)can be used to support this, as the individual follows family input to avoid rejection. Below, Kate suggests that sometimes the involvement of a hostile …show more content…

“So everything I suppose has a finite amount of time and it’s quite defined and we have specific things that we are working towards within that time.”(Shaun, Lines 891-894, Page 24). From the above quotes, the participants feel as though it is difficult to prevent the escalation of antisocial behaviour in the short time frames available to complete the interventions. This suggested that they believed that they needed more time to ensure that the intervention was successful. This was especially shown by Shaun’s quote where he is suggesting that tasks were rushed in order to meet deadlines. Below in Andrea’s quote, she states that she feels as though she is “starting all over again “when she next sees her service users. This suggests that the lack of time spent engaging in the interventions means that the young people do not get sufficient time to practice the new skills that they have acquired, resulting in them being lost very

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