Children and their Issues Parenting

Questions: 1. State the developmental needs of the children and appraise the extent to which these developmental needs have been met under their current home situation.What would be some concerns you might have regarding their development 2. Using the ecological perspective and/or ABCX model and the tools of the familys genogram, ecomap and timeline assess the family after making the home visit [10 marks]. In the process, demonstrate your understanding of issues around the protection of childrenfrom the evidence you have gathered in Question 13. From your assessment, set goals and propose implementation plans for thechildren and/or family. Evaluate the extent to which you would be ableto apply the strengths perspective in your intervention plans. Please also evaluate the extent to which you are able to safeguard the childrens wellbeing and any other vulnerable adults in the family in your implementationplans.4. As you work with the clients, discuss the extent of relevance of professional dutyt o safeguard and the clients right to privacy. Answers: 1. Different frameworks have defined various developmental needs of children which if achieved successfully will gift a life to a child that will not only be overwhelming but will also help the child to achieve a bright future. The first that can be described is the need for physical activity which ultimately helps in developing both small and also large muscles giving them a stature and also goofs for physical health and safe from different diseases like obesity and others (Keenan, Evans Crowley, 2016). However, Sam spent most of the time baby-sitting for his siblings getting less scope for physical activity. This increases chance of improper body development affecting his health physically. He practiced no proper movement skills which might affect his coordination and overall physical fitness. Secondly, the better social and emotional development of the child, better he will be able to communicate with his parents, relatives and also with other children (NICHD, 2016). He will be a ble to express himself more effectively. He will also be able to achieve experiences that will help them to understand and respond to emotions to others. In case of Sam, one can see that his immediate environment is absolutely not apt for his correct social skill development. The parents are the immediate guidance that the children look for. Sams father is abusive with not only his wife but also with Sam which leaves an impression on him that this is the right way to behave when angry. This led him to beat his friend at school when a tensed situation might have grown between them. Therefore a proper atmosphere with much happiness, proper behaviors among the family members, expression of strength among different relationships, sharing of commitment and dedication from each is very necessary for him to evolve as a better human being. These attributes will make him both socially and emotionally strong and help in correct paths of humanity (Cook et al., 2015). Approaches to learning new tasks, challenges and difficult problems need also to be handled carefully so that the child may develop curiosity, interest, and ability to stay on the task and evolve as a better human being ready to face challenges in lives. Other area is development of thinking ability and also the general knowledge that helps the child to understand how the world works (Bornstein Bradley, 2014). The condition of the family is not financially well and the abusive nature of the male head is an additional blow on the family. In such a crisis condition it becomes very difficult for the child to develop his learning skill. Moreover Mrs. Liam always remains unhappy and breaks down into tears which will result in a very negative aspect on Sam. It may make him learn beating makes a person weak which he can apply in future lives resulting in massacred future. On the other hand, it may make him emotionally weak for the future where he may never have the courage to express him or may not develop the fee ling of inferiority or insecurity complex affecting his future lives (Donohue et al., 2014). The other point is the communication, language and also literacy which can be achieved through important evidence based activities. The strenuous situation that prevailed in the house of Mr.Lim gave the family members very little scope to practice the different activities that would result in the development of proper literacy skills. This would affect his career in future life as well. 2. Reuben Hill has given forward a family stress adaption theory known famously as the Hills ABCX model that helps in identifying the different crisis that a family goes through along with the contributors that cause the stress. He had described that major stressful events often disrupt the equilibrium of the family and hence the family needs to re-establish the equilibrium with the help of the coping mechanism to handle stress. In the ABCX model, the A refers to the different incidents and the events that lead to disruption of the equilibrium such as serious illness, divorce, abuse of children and also spouse and others (Kennedy et al., 2016). The B factors mainly denote the protective factors that help in acting as buffer to against the negative consequences of the stress that had come upon the family suddenly. They mainly include different external as well as different internal as well as different external family resources and also denote the social support that the families can eek for from the community, or the church and similar charitable organizations. The concerned family of the case study had already fulfilled these criteria as they had been taking social helps but they also need to take help of counselors to help them cope with the adverse environment. C of the ABCX model usually denotes the perceptions that the family develops when they face the events and feel the stresses. Hill had stated that if the family perceives the stresses positively or constructively they are better able to cope with the situation. However when the family perceives and dwell on the negative impact of the situation for a long time,, they themselves get hyper and stressed out and depression engulfs them (Frsihman et al., 2017). Mrs. Lim had perceived the situation in the later way and therefore it resulted her to frequently break down while describing them and was not been able to take steps that would lead to the betterment of the family. The X of the ABCX model refers to family crisis which states that if the family fails to cope up with the process of regaining back the equilibrium, it ends in family crisis (Pozo, Saria Brioso, 2014). As the family member could not cope up with the stresses that were created due to the abusive nature of the male head, the entire equilibrium got disrupted resulting in arrival of crisis to which not only Mrs., Liam but also Sam became a victim of it. From preparation of genogram, provided by the case study, one can find out not only the relationship shared by the different individual mentioned in the case study but can also determine the emotional relationship shared by them (Gibson Taylor, 2016). Mr. Lim was previously married to a lady who was already pregnant with Lims first child named Siew Lee who is now 19 years old. Her mother ran away with her due to the abusive nature of her husband Mr. Liam. Now Siew Lees mother is dead due to cancer. His second wife married him when she was pregnant with their child named Sam. She did so to make her father recover from heart attack. However he is already dead now for 1.5 years. Sam has four siblings named Alex (6 years old), Lily (4 years old) and Cindy (18 months) who suffer a lot due to the poor financial condition of the family which has developed due to drinking habit of the Mr.Liam. Financial help is provided by Mr. Liams mother and also by Siam Lee to some extent. From the entir e study it can be seen that abusive nature and the drinking habits of Mr. Liam have destroyed the mental and emotional peace of the family along with physical harm not only one but twice in cases of both his marriage. Ecomap is especially helpful while during counseling that helps to recognize the causal factors of the family stress and also providing different solutions as a method of counseling to the entire family (Crawford, Grant Crews, 2016). The case however gives no reason for the development of the abusive habit of Mr. Lim that was having a huge impact on the family. Various supports that the family can have are support from church and clergy, counseling techniques from family counselors. Mr. Liam should be sent for rehabilitation. They can also seek for organizations that handle such crimes in order to help her family live well. They may join communities giving support to such families and can express their feelings. All these would help them to regain back the equilibrium. Time frame setting would help the counselor to understand the important interventions that she need to take for helping the family. After assessing the condition of the family with each of the tools provided, one can see that the children are at greater risk for developing adverse behaviors as most are in the cognitive phase of learning. They make take up wrong habits and develop poor principles which will not only harm them in the future but also make the people surrounding them vulnerable to threats from them in future (Boss, 2014). Ecomap providing services to Sam and his mother 3. Relationship counseling is advisable to a couple where both of them want to participate. It remains mainly based on shared respect for each other and also depends upon their perceptions of their responsibilities to each other and also to their family (Salloum et al., 2014). However in case of Mr. Liam it is seen that when he was asked for counseling, he did not deny it but also did not come to participate in the counseling. This proved of his lack of interest to make the condition of his family better. In such case the implementation plan should involve individual counseling. It will help the victim here like Mrs. Liam to understand the pattern of violence occurring to her and family and thereby advise her of the safety procedures she needed to follow. Different therapies would help her to minimize the negative feelings grown from the adverse incidents and develop strength in her to turn back and protest. Group therapy can be instructed for her who will help her to interact with s everal other such victims and share their feelings (Negar Prinz, 2015). This is seen to be helpful for them and provide them with a network of support. Mrs. Liam should attend such therapies to make her feel emotionally strong and not blame herself for the conditions she is facing. She can also attend art therapy and also music therapy that will give her creative outlet for her feelings. Once Mrs. Lim becomes mentally and emotionally strong she can be great backbone for her children and will be able to protect them with stern protests against such behavior from Mr. Lim. Children like Sam who have faced such trauma of abuse and had seen domestic violence on mother should be immediately allowed to flush out their feelings to a counselor so that his immediate feelings can be understood. A counselor would then try to make such feeling of the child mould in a better way so that they do not develop any sort of unhealthy feelings. Otherwise these same children may end up on relationships in future which may be troubled where they might become the abuser or the victim. Play therapy will help Sam to explore life events that are having an effect on current circumstances in a manner which will be conducted through play and also through language (Smith et al., 2014). This is often denoted by renowned counselors as the important and also effective treatment for developing appropriate mental health. Sand tray therapy should also be used for the children where Sam will be able to develop microcosm using toys and sand. This would allow Sam to help him resolve confl icts, remove obstacles and gain acceptance as he grows up. Parent child interaction therapy would have a great impact if Mrs. Liam can make Mr. Lim participate in this therapy as this therapy is known to provide best outcomes for families in crisis. The children are at a high level of threat from their father and interventions are to be taken for their emotional and physical development. 4. Concerned organization of the social workers like counselors and others have to follow the codes of the Singapore Association of Social Workers (SASW) which states that counselor should completely keep the information of a family private and maintain the familys privacy by not disclosing it to the any strangers or other distant relatives (Sorbo et al., 2014). As a human being, it would be a duty to protect Mrs. Liam and her children from any life threats that they are facing and would make arrangement like emergency help line numbers and monitoring their family so that they may remain safe in future. The Counselor would also try to provide her the address of different charitable organization where she can get support for better living. References: Bornstein, M. H., Bradley, R. H. (Eds.). (2014).Socioeconomic status, parenting, and child development. Routledge. Boss, P. (2014). Family stress. InEncyclopedia of quality of life and well-being research(pp. 2202-2208). 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