Outline
Introduce her to the other members in the residential placement.
Take Sammi round the facility to familiarize herself with her new ‘home’.
Take her to her room and introduce her to her new roommate. The roommate will have matching preferences with her to reduce the chances of having problems in their living arrangement.
Introduce her to the staff and supporting staff of the facility.
Ensure that she understands the rules and policies of the facility especially with regard to treatment, free time, and meal times.
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Sammi will also be oriented on the emergency numbers she will need to memorize so as to use them when an emergency arises.
Do a thorough background on the adolescent, Sammi, and get to know her likes and dislikes.
Match her likes with the concept displayed on her room decoration.
Initial Concerns
As a human service provider handling Sammi’s case, the initial concern that comes to mind is gaining an understanding of the underlying reasons such as substance use among youth(s) because it relates to their negative coping behavior. As such, many will resort to risky sexual behaviors due to their unmet mental health needs and negative behaviors (Biswas & Vaughn, 2011). Moreover, it is paramount to know what the initial efforts of the parents were in resolving their daughter’s deviant behavior and enragement. Such frustrations coming from a young adolescent girl like Sammi depicts that a problem exists in the family structure.
Consequently, it is paramount to understand the cause of such problems to reduce calamitous consequences in the life of an adolescent. It is also critical to know the stability of her state of mind with regard to emotional and psychological aspects looking at the deviant behaviors she has acquired early in her adolescence. The other concern regards her defiant behavior that has led her to achieve below her expected ability. This means that she was a high performing student and the problems have contributed to her poor performance.
Essential concerns
The other essential concern is how she is going to fit into the residential care program considering it is a multi-component intervention and setting that manages to contain and sustain adolescents ‘unique culture’ (AACRC, 2009, p. 249). As such, the worry that comes to mind is how she will embrace the program and interventions of the residential care in order for it to meet her emotional and behavioral problems. This is a worry because she does not handle strangers very well.
The other concerns that can wait as the facility looks into her internal side of personal behavior are her aspirations and dreams for the future. The residential replacement looks at solving the emotional problems and problem-solving skills of Sammi. In the coming years, Sammi will join the employment sector and if she is not able to handle her personal problems at home, it will be hard for her to handle the outside pressure of the world. The external side of Sammi is also important to the human service provider because it will look at the quality of family life, the school she is attending, and the safety of her neighborhood. It is evident that the problems she is facing at home with her parents have contributed to the escalating problems and have spilled over to her school performance.
Anger Interpretation
At fourteen years, Sammi should be enjoying her teenage, but in this case, she is facing anger management issues that have forced her to live in a residential placement. It is evident that she is actively and passively challenging the process and has managed to overthrow the rules and demands outlaid by her parent’s authority. In the process of her insurrection, the parents got angry in a frustrating fight for influence, Sammi also got angry in her frustrating fight for freedom. In the end, the fight was solved through placing Sammi in a residential home, but this does not solve the existing problem at hand. Rather, she managed to suppress her anger, and this affected her psychological well-being. Therefore, she resorted to having deviant behaviors both at school and home as a way of expressing her anger (Jackson et al., 2011).
References
American Association of Children’s Residential Centers (AACRC). (2009).
Redefining residential: Integrating evidence-based practices. Residential
Treatment for Children & Youth, 26, 246–251.
Biswas, B., & Vaughn, M. G. (2011). Really troubled girls: Gender differences in
risky sexual behavior and its correlates in a sample of juvenile offenders.
Children and Youth Services Review , 33(11), 2386-2391.
Jackson, J., Kuppens, P., Sheeber, L. B., & Allen, N. B. (2011). Expression of anger
in depressed adolescents: The role of the family environment. Journal of
Abnormal Child Psychology , 39(3), 463-474.
