Use this textbook online, Social Work Practice with Individuals and Families, Evidence Informed Assessments and Interventions by Holosko, Dulmus, and Sowers (ISBN # 978-1-118-176979).
Answer this prompt: Social work intervention with individuals and with families aims at empowering and mobilizing clients to make needed changes in their lives. From what you have learned in our class, what do you think the single greatest barrier is to providing effective clinical intervention to children? To adolescents? To adults? To older adults? And to families? Please explain each of your responses.
Then respond to these two classmates who responded to the same prompt:
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I think that big barriers amongst children and adolescents would be trust. As I stated on last weeks post, trust is a huge issue for these age groups because they are most likely being forced to go. This provides an uncomfortable environment for the child or adolescent and can making working with them very hard. Working with adults and families could be tasking because of an inability to own up to situations. For these individuals to be assessed and helped, they have to be willing to hold theirselves accountable. With older adults, the greatest barrier could be the complexity of the individual. There could be a lifetime of trauma attached to this individual and they could also be facing the end of their life. This makes it extremely hard for the social worker to feel that they are making progress.
2)
I will do my best to generalize here and trying to avoid the risk of oversimplification. Children fear nerves which causes them to say or do what they think the adult wants to hear rather than their true expression or feelings. If we want to help young people in trouble or at risk, we need to pave a road for them that is easy to follow and will lead to a successful outcome” (Holosko et al., 2013, pg. 78) I believe that adolescents are resistant to intervention is because they are often times forced. The practitioners attempt to explore the adolescents feelings and thoughts around such issues is often met with resistance (Holosko et al., 2013, pg. 75). If there was no issues with the adolescent, the parent would not seek the help of the social worker. The adolescent may feel like their back is to a wall and the only way to act is to resist attempts at intervention. This is perfectly summarized here, A distinguishing feature of interventions with adolescents, as compared with adults, is that often the client has not sought help of his or her own accord (Holosko et al., 2013, pg. 114). Next, the reason adults have a resistance to intervention strategies is because they are in denial or unwilling to admit to a problem and that problems entirety. From what I have learned from this class is that the elderly clients arent necessarily resistant to therapy but lack the resources or access to get the help they need. Those who do have that assess are still resist I would say are set in their ways and arrogant of their abilities and capabilities and often times compare their current skills to that of their younger selves. The single greatest barrier that families have towards beneficial intervention plans and strategies is the willingness to take responsibility for their own actions and work as a team or family. Individual needs have been shown to outweigh the collective good in order for the intervention plan to be truly effective.
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