SW 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Alcoholism
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Difficult cases to work with: adolescents with broken families, children who have been adopted, drug use: there is a theme of children/adolescents. Ch. 11: assessing readiness review: what factors influence motivational change, social worker, environmental influences, resiliency, stress, demand, hope, discounting, what are the stages of readiness to change, pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance, relapse/termination. There"s a problem but the person does not believe that it is a problem that needs to be addressed: contemplation, 1. Client knows there is a problem; they are not ready to deal with it. A married couple in the process of getting divorced doesn"t know how to talk to kids about it: 2. Client is preparing to make change by getting information, taking small steps, thinking about goals that would be involved if they were to make the change: action, 1. Alcoholism and trying to get sober in order to have kids: 2. Client is doing something with hopes of achieving their aim/goal.