SWM5102: Critical social work- Frameworks for Practice With Children & Families- Riley Case study- Case Study Analysis Assignment

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Case Study Analysis Assignment:

Task:

1. Critically evaluate the values and assumptions underpinning various theoretical approaches to human development, such as psychodynamic, ecological systems and cognitive behavioural theories.
2. Synthesise the key evidence in relation to the effectiveness of different theories, frameworks and models applied approaches to direct social work practice.
3. Analyse critically the elements of social work processes including assessment, engagement, the worker/client relationship and referral for the purpose of improving practice.
4. Research and apply key principles in working with children and families from diverse and Indigenous cultures.

Case Study: Riley

You know Riley (8 yrs.) as the school social worker at a local primary school. His mother Eileen (38 yrs.) came to see you last week and told you about Riley’s medical condition. She explained that she was training with Riley for a school marathon as a fun bonding activity between them when she
noticed that he didn’t seem to be running smoothly. Then Eileen noted that he was sitting closer and closer to the TV at night. Riley also told Eileen that he thought his ipad was not working properly as everything seemed blurry. Several weeks earlier Jack (48 yrs.) his dad had been with him at the
playground when Riley fell off some of the equipment he had been climbing for several years with ease. This seemed odd to Jack.

Recently, the family, including Siobhan (6 yrs.) his younger sister who also attends the same primary school, went on a long road trip to visit Eileen’s parents interstate. Riley normally loved this trip and often sang and made jokes to entertain everyone in the car on the way. But on this last trip Riley was vomiting, tired and unsteady on his feet. At first Eileen and Jack thought he might have eaten something that made him sick but on returning from the trip he complained of headaches and did not want to run the marathon he had been training for with a lot of enthusiasm.

Eileen decided to take Riley to the family doctor and he was diagnosed with a brain tumour. Eileen was upset about this and felt she should have known something was wrong sooner. Riley had changed a fair bit lately and wasn’t as happy or physically active as he normally had been. Eileen
blamed herself for not taking him to the doctor earlier.

Eileen is worried about how Shiobhan is coping and wants to know if she is reacting to Riley’s illness in a normal way. Shiobhan started school this year the same year Riley was diagnosed with a brain tumour. She cut her own hair when Riley’s hair was shaved off for treatment and wore beanies like him. Eileen does not want Shiobhan to get left out and negatively impacted by all the extra attention Riley needs. Eileen states that Jack’s father died of lung cancer when Jack was only 17 years old and that he still has nightmares about it. Jack is finding it difficult going to the hospital with Riley due to his own dislike of the hospital smells that remind him of his father’s pain and struggle.

Eileen would like to ask Jack’s mother (Rosemary 78 yrs,) to come and help out with Shiobhan after school. This is so that Siobhan would not always have to go with Riley to various appointments and treatments.  However, Rosemary recently had a hip replacement and is limited in being able to drive.

Eileen and Jack’s place also has many steps and these would trouble Rosemary. Rosemary lives a one-hours drive from Jack and Eileen and it is too difficult to drive with Riley to her place to drop Shiobhan off before going to the hospital.

 

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