Spring 2023 SOWK 487w Week 03 - Enhancing Relationships and Working with Families

ENHANCING RELATIONSHIPS & WORKING WITH FAMILIES SPRING 2023 SOWK 487W WEEK 03 JACOB CAMPBELL, LICSW AT HERITAGE UNIVERSITY

WEEK 03 AGENDA PLAN FOR CLASS Review family system framework Discuss family engagement Practice with starting services Implementing irst/second order strategies f SPRING 2023 SOWK 487 WITH JACOB CAMPBELL, LICSW AT HERITAGE UNIVERSITY

ASSESSMENT DIMENSIONS CASE SITUATIONS Each group has two situations. Don’t jump ahead. Start with just the irst situation • First Situation: Talk with your group about what type of information you would want to request or what questions you would ask • Second Situation: Choose group members to act out the di erent family roles ff SPRING 2023 SOWK 487 WITH JACOB CAMPBELL, LICSW AT HERITAGE UNIVERSITY f 􀅵 FAMILY SYSTEMS FRAMEWORK Homeostasis Boundaries and Boundary Maintenance Family Decision Making, Hierarchy, and Power Family Roles Communication Patterns in Families Family Life Cycle Family Rules Social Environment Family Adaptive Capacity (Stressors and Strengths)

FAMILY ENGAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS WE NEED TO MAKE AS WE ENGAGE WITH FAMILIES Joining Cultural perspectives on engagement Di erences in communication styles Hierarchical considerations in communication Authority of the social worker Preventing alliances Dynamics of minority status and culture in experience (Hepworth et al., 2022) ff SPRING 2023 SOWK 487 WITH JACOB CAMPBELL, LICSW AT HERITAGE UNIVERSITY

THE INITIAL SESSION As a group, irst talk though a couple of examples of what kinds of questions you might ask or what that might look like, then role play a couple of the senecios. PROCESS OF ENGAGEMENT Establish a personal relationship with individual and group Clarify expectations and explore reservations about session Clarify roles and the nature of the helping process Clarify choices about participation in the helping process Elicit family’s perceptions of the problem Identify wants and needs of family members De ine the problem as a family problem Emphasize individual and family strengths Establish individual and family goals (Hepworth et al., 2022) f f f f SPRING 2023 SOWK 487 WITH JACOB CAMPBELL, LICSW AT HERITAGE UNIVERSITY What Would You Do • • • • • • • • • In a client’s home In an emergency room in a hospital Parent-child situation in which the child is the identi ied client With a minority family where extended kin are present LGBTQ+ family Elderly minority grandmother caring for her grandchildren Parent-child con lict with teenage children Immigrant family with school-aged children, where the parents speak their native language A child or children have been placed outside of the home

Something new SECOND ORDER STRATEGIES Expanding on what is already there attempt to foster changes to family structure itself FIRST ORDER STRATEGIES attempt to solve problems within the current family structure (Hepworth et al., 2022) SPRING 2023 SOWK 487 WITH JACOB CAMPBELL, LICSW AT HERITAGE UNIVERSITY

􀁀 􀀾 􀀺􀀼 PROBLEM SOLVING APPROACHES CONSIDERATIONS FOR ADAPTING TO FAMILIES Engage simultaneous with both family members Recognize that sometimes the focus will move to a second order strategy (Hepworth et al., 2022) SPRING 2023 SOWK 487 WITH JACOB CAMPBELL, LICSW AT HERITAGE UNIVERSITY Take time to understand power and hierarchy Understand the social relationships in the process

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Validating vs. Invalidating Statements 🙊🙈🙉 SPRING 2023 SOWK 487 WITH JACOB CAMPBELL, LICSW AT HERITAGE UNIVERSITY

⏰ SPRING 2023 SOWK 487 WITH JACOB CAMPBELL, LICSW AT HERITAGE UNIVERSITY TIME OUTS

SECOND-ORDER STRATEGIES STRATEGIES FOR CHANGING FAMILY SYSTEMS Modifying misconceptions and cognitive distortions Family sculpting Modifying communication patterns Joined families Giving and receiving feedback One-the-spot interventions Assessing positive and negative feedback Focus on the process rather than the content Teaching positive feedback Give Feedback That Is Descriptive and Neutral Rather Than General or Evaluative Modifying family rules Modifying family alignments and hierarchy Structural mapping Balance interventions to divide responsibility Redirect hostile, blaming messages Assisting families to disengage from con lict (Hepworth et al., 2022) f SPRING 2023 SOWK 487 WITH JACOB CAMPBELL, LICSW AT HERITAGE UNIVERSITY