Developing a treatment plan for an adult involves a different set of considerations than proposing treatment for a child or a teenager. Thinking about these three client age groups, which client age group would you expect to be the most “resistant” to therapy? Explain your answer. Reflecting on this issue, how can a social worker effectively approach and deal with this resistance to help the client move forward with treatment?
When a social worker works with older clients (age 65 and older), there are different issues to consider in their clinical assessments and in their interventions, in comparison to those used with younger clients. In your opinion, do you think that it is simpler or more complex to assess older clients than younger clients? Explain your answer.
An important part of the social work assessment of family members is the identification of the social and cultural contexts of the family unit. In thinking about what you read this week, why is this so important to the ultimate development of an appropriate intervention plan for the family? What challenges would you expect social workers to face while working to obtain this type of information.
