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Project: Bio-Psycho-Social Assessment
Assessing a client's biological, psychological, and social history is a holistic approach that is an essential aspect of social work practice. Since one area often affects the other two, it is important to get as accurate an assessment as possible when working with a client. Social workers use the bio-psycho-social tool to communicate specific information, and possible conclusions, about a client to other professionals. It is, at once, a summary of current issues and problems; a listing of past factors that may be relevant to the current situation; and a description of potential issues that may have an effect on the client in the future. In addition to describing the client's challenges and problems, the assessment identifies strengths and assets that are available to provide support. For this Assignment you create a bio-psycho-social assessment.
THURSDAY NEW YORK TIME a 5- to 8-page paper that focuses on Eboni Logan is a 16-year-old biracial African American/Caucasian female in 11th grade from one of the case studies presented in this course and complete a bio-psycho-social assessment.
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The assessment should be written in APA format/ professional language and include sections on each of the following:
Presenting issue (including referral source)
Demographic information
Current living situation
Birth and developmental history
School and social relationships
Family members and relationships
Health and medical Issues (including psychological and psychiatric functioning, substance abuse)
Spiritual development
Social, community, and recreational activities
Client strengths, capacities, and resources
After addressing the 10 categories, answer the following supplemental questions.
What specific intervention strategies (skills, knowledge, etc.) did you use to address this client situation?
Several theories are woven through this case study-Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, Systems Theory, Engagement and Assessment Skills.
Explain which of the theories you used to guide your practice.
Describe the challenges faced by the client(s)-for example, drug addiction, lack of basic needs, victim of abuse, new school environment, etc.
Describe the identified strengths of the client(s).
Explain the agreed-upon goals to be met in order to address the concerns.
Did you have to address any issues around cultural competence? Did you have to learn about this population/group prior to beginning your work with this client system? If so, what type of research did you do to prepare?
What, if any local, state, or federal policies could (or do) impact this situation?
How would you advocate for social change to positively impact this case?
Are there any legal/ethical issues present in the case? If so, what were they and how were they addressed?
How can evidence-based practice be integrated into this situation?
Is there any additional information or material you think is important to the use of the case?
Provide any personal reflection regarding the case that you think would be relevant to the course.
The Logan Family
Eboni Logan is a 16-year-old biracial African American/Caucasian female in 11th grade. She is an honors student, has been taking Advanced
Placement courses, and runs track. Eboni plans to go to college and major in nursing. She is also active in choir and is a member of the
National Honor Society and the student council. For the last 6 months, Eboni has been working 10 hours a week at a fast food restaurant.
She recently passed her driver's test and has received her license. Eboni states that she believes in God, but she and her mother do not belong to any organized religion. Her father attends a Catholic church regularly and takes Eboni with him on the weekends that she visits him.
Eboni does not smoke and denies any regular alcohol or drug usage. She does admit to occasionally drinking when she is at parties with
her friends, but denies ever being drunk. There is no criminal history. She has had no major health problems.
Eboni has been dating Darian for the past 4 months. He is a 17-year-old African American male. According to Eboni, Darian is also on the track team and does well in school. He is a B student and would like to go to college, possibly for something computer related. Darian works ata grocery store 10-15 hours a week. He is healthy and has no criminal issues. Darian also denies smoking or regular alcohol or drug usage. He has been drunk a few times, but Eboni reports that he does not think it is a problem. Eboni and Darian became sexually active soon after they started dating, and they were using withdrawal for birth control.
Eboni's mother, Darlene, is 34 years old and also biracial African American/Caucasian. She works as an administrative assistant for a local manufacturing company. Eboni has lived with her mother and her maternal grandmother, May, from the time she was born. May is a
55-year-old African American woman who works as a paraprofessional in an elementary school. They still live in the same apartment where
May raised Darlene.
Darlene met Eboni's father, Anthony, when she was 17, the summer before their senior year in high school. Anthony is 34 years old and
Caucasian. They casually dated for about a month, and after they broke up, Darlene discovered she was pregnant and opted to keep the baby.
Although they never married each other, Anthony has been married twice and divorced once. He has four other children in addition to Eboni.
She visits her father and stepmother every other weekend. Anthony works as a mechanic and pays child support to Darlene.
Recently, Eboni took a pregnancy test and learned that she is 2 months pregnant. She actually did not know she was pregnant because her
periods were not always consistent and she thought she had just skipped a couple of months. Eboni immediately told her best friend, Brandy, and then Darian about her pregnancy. He was shocked at first and suggested that it might be best to terminate. Darian has not told her explicitly to get an abortion, but he feels he cannot provide for her and the baby as he would like and thinks they should wait to have children.
He eventually told her he would support her in any way he could, whatever she decides. Brandy encouraged Eboni to meet with the school social worker.
During our first meeting, Eboni told me that she had taken a pregnancy test the previous week and it was positive. At that moment, the
only people who knew she was pregnant were her best friend and boyfriend. She had not told her parents and was not sure how to tell them.
She was very scared about what they would say to her. We talked about how she could tell them and discussed various responses she might
receive. Eboni agreed she would tell her parents over the weekend and see me the following Monday. During our meeting I asked her if she
used contraception, and she told me that she used the withdrawal method.
Eboni met with me that following Monday, as planned, and she was very tearful. She had told her parents and grandmother over the weekend. Eboni shared that her mother and grandmother had become visibly upset when they learned of the pregnancy, and Darlene had yelled and called her a slut. Darlene told Eboni she wanted her to have a different life than she had had and told her she should have an abortion. May cried and held Eboni in her arms for a long time. When Eboni told her father, he was shocked and just kept shaking his head back and forth, not saying a word. Then he told her that she had to have this child because abortion was a sin. He offered to help her and suggested that she move in with him and her stepmother.
Darlene did not speak to Eboni for the rest of the weekend. Her grandmother said she was scheduling an appointment with the doctor to make sure she really was pregnant. Eboni was apprehensive about going to the doctor, so we discussed what the first appointment usually
entails. I approached the topic of choices and decisions if it was confirmed that she was pregnant, and she said she had no idea what she would do.