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Social Work Cases Four Social Work Case Assessment and Interven

Four Social Work Case Assessment and Interventions

In the case of 15-year-old Roneisha, a pregnant African-American female living in foster care with an experienced but aging foster mother, number problems can be identified. First, this young female has become sexually active and has become pregnant as a result of her precocity; she refuses to identify the father of the child and has insisted that she will carry the child to term and care for its herself because she needs "someone to love her" and she does not wish to be like her own abusive, emotionally distant mother. Other issues that are significant in this young teenager's case are:

Her poor dietary habits, which are damaging to her health and that of her unborn child;

Her use of cigarettes, marijuana, and prescription

drugs (i.e., Zoloft and Risperdal) that are injurious to her health and that of the unborn child;

Her inability to control her anger and frustration,

which has resulted in violent episodes at school and

increasingly severe attacks on her foster mother;

Poor peer relationships and fighting and refusal to

Eat the food her foster mother prepares.

Taken together, these are symptoms that could be associated with a number of possible diagnoses. Zastrow and Kirst-Ashma

(2004) noted that many of these symptoms are suggestive of anti-social personality disorders, poor locus of control, and potential abuse of drugs, and risk-taking behaviors that can lead to serious interpersonal consequences. Additionally, as noted by Woods and Hollis (2000), the girl's inability to control her anger and her tendency toward violent behavior is potentially symptomatic of a deeper psychopathology.

Simultaneously, this case involves concerns regarding the adolescent's foster parent, Mrs. Raley, who at age 67 and after 40 years of work in foster parenting is clearly unequal to the challenges of managing this particular adolescent's behavior. ...

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