FEMALE SPEAKER: You’re not dressed? You’re going to be late for work.MALE SPEAKER: I’m not going to work. I’m sick.FEMALE SPEAKER: Of course you’re sick. You’re hungover. I don’t want theboys to see you like this. Go back to bed.MALE SPEAKER: See me like what? I told you, I’m sick.FEMALE SPEAKER: Well, what do you call it when someone is sick almostevery morning, because they drink every night while they sit in the dark watchingTV?MALE SPEAKER: You calling me a drunk?FEMALE SPEAKER: What do you call it?MALE SPEAKER: I call it, leave me the hell alone.FEMALE SPEAKER: Baby, you need to stop this. It’s tearing us up. The drinking,the anger– you’re depressed.MALE SPEAKER: You said, for better or worse.FEMALE SPEAKER: My vows don’t cover this. You were never like this before.You’ve changed. I want us back, the way we used to be.MALE SPEAKER: That way is dead. It died when I went to Iraq.
With seemingly never-ending violence, natural disasters, and soldiers returning home from wars growing numbers of people are suffering long lasting mental health crises. It is imperative for clinical social workers to implement effective interventions that address trauma and loss within families.
For this Discussion, view the Levy video.
By Day 3
Post a description of the how the trauma related behaviors evident in the Levy video affect family interactions and the family system. Identify the problems in this case and explain whether these problems would best be addressed through individual treatment, family treatment, or a combination of both. Review the literature and recommend an evidence-based family intervention that might help Jake and Sheri and their sons. Describe how the intervention is implemented and its underlying theory. Explain how this intervention might help the Levy family and ameliorate the presenting problems. Finally, describe why you chose this intervention. Use this weeks resources or the literature to support your conclusions.
Holosko, M. J., Dulmus, C. N., & Sowers, K. M. (2013). Social work practice with individuals and families: Evidence-informed assessments and interventions. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Chapter 10, Intervention With Families (pp. 265294)
