Herapist Variables In Intervention Therapy

Critical analysis and assessment of the content gathered from the interview

Discuss About The Herapist Variables In Intervention Therapy.

The development is viewed generally in terms of the inter-connection among an individual’s social world, physical and cognitive personality traits. For the assessment, the ecological model of mesosystem and theory of crisis intervention has been chosen for further illustration (Major Theories in Social Work Practice 2018). This theory has been chosen since the theory deals with the context of social inclusion and loneliness of an individual in the society. The theory furthermore illustrated the importance of society and relationship in the context of living creatures. From the ecological model perspective, it is stated that the development should be witnessed in terms of the interconnection among an individual’s physical, cognitive personality and social worlds (Capuzzi and Stauffer 2016). The model illustrates that each of the people tends to function in a particular microsystem by the means of the embedded system in a frame of time. Furthermore, the model focuses on the interrelation between the individuals and the social context, the interrelatedness of the developmental areas and the relative importance of the broad social factor in the human development (Bell 2016).

The interview was conducted among Ms Patel, a social worker of the student ID 19491644 with Kalpana, an international student in the country from her native place at Nepal. The interview focused on solving social and personal issues of the clients who visited the clinic. Kalpana being the client in the interview assessment expresses her concern regarding her loneliness in this foreign country. She stated how she feels lonely and sad when her husband is out for work. She furthermore states her position of social inclusion in the place of her residence where all her neighbors are busy at their own work and she does not have any companion or friend to talk to. While asked about her employment, she states that she was unable to get any job due to the class schedules of her university and now that she is studying she feels that she should focus on her weekday classes and lectures. She failed to get any of the weekend jobs recently and thus she tends to sit back at her place all alone. Loneliness is major problem in the current scenario where most of the individuals are in the race of improvement and empowerment and unlike the culture of her home country, all the individuals here go to work. This nature of loneliness only results in depression and long term psychological problems, as stated by the special worker (Capuzzi and Stauffer 2016). Kalpana explained how she feel homesickness in her lone time and feel sad about the lack of neighbors and people with whom she can share her sorrows and joys unlike the scenario of her home country. She furthermore illustrated how she feels tired and stressed out by various thoughts about what she will do and how she will share her pain and with whom, she misses her home town, her family members. Besides this issue, Kalpana furthermore stated that she was unable to get and find any of her friends who belong from her home country and with whom she can share the same bonds. The social worker suggested her to make friends at her university despite of cultural diversities and different nations and religion upon which she stated how she got victim of social inclusion. The university students tend to avoid the international students and there is no one who wants to be friends with her in the domestic culture. The other international students also tend to avoid her. The social worker suggested her to approach and forward her hand for friendship to the university students devoid of any social boundaries because communication helps to engage the minds of the individual and helps them to get out of their isolation and depression of being lonely. Furthermore, the social worker stated that she can go to the library to read books of her interest which can help her to engage herself in some activity and decrease her homesickness, she can go to the park and engage in talking with the people around which will help her to feel light. Calling back at home and to her friends of her home country can be a great relief and a source of encouragement as stated by the social worker. She furthermore illustrated how Kalpana should make the fruitful use of the social media by Facebook and WhatsApp to connect with her family in her lonely time when she does not have lecture classes to attend at the university. The introduction of video calling has been one of the major useful tools for many individuals living away from their home country to connect with their loved ones and see and hear about their whereabouts (Sekaran et al. 2017). The social worker suggested the same to Kalpana and asked her to call her family and chat with her friends by the newly introduced WhatsApp video calling feature to address her boredom. The technological improvement in the current era has enabled many benefits to the livelihood of the individuals who stay far from their home. This action will definitely help her to feel energetic since watching and hearing from her family will lighten up her mood and will make her feel contented with affection. The social worker concluded some of the important facts that loneliness and sitting back at home alone affects largely on the mind of the person together with the studies one is pursuing since loneliness and depression is a major hurdle in the pathway to concentrate on any work or studies. The interview assessment provided Kalpana with some of the hopes on how she can make a routine and manage her time of loneliness which are the major factors that can affect her psychological health status.

The Assessment model chosen for the report

While the micro system forms the basis of the ecological model stating the relation among the developing individual and the environment, this assignment focuses the context of Kalpana with the help of the mesosystem which mainly deals with the context of isolation. The mesosystem states the connection between different factors of the society which induces the behavior of the individual (Kahn 2015). Furthermore, it comprises the interrelation among many settings of the society where an individual is enabled to participate actively. The figure below describes the ecological model of the society.

Figure 1 Source: (Ecological Perspective in Social Work 2018)

The theories of crisis intervention are based suited in the above context. The underlying philosophy of the theory lies in the fact that the theory includes problem based combined with the social constructionist philosophy (Howie 2014). The theory originated from the researches in the social welfare work practices and not from the concept of psychology. The theories of crisis intervention are based on the belief that most of the psychological and social issues are dependable on the temporary breakdowns related to coping with the mechanisms. Some of the major crisis intervention or task centered theories include Reid &Epstien, Doel, and Marsh. Some of the major practicing principles of the theoretical context include the definition of the requirements that need to be altered (Jetten et al. 2014). Identification of the constraints that are making it difficult, the requirement of the tasks to making certain improvements and review of the issue followed by certain methods of evaluation. In a broader perspective, there lie three different levels of the crisis intervention theories. The Basis Crisis Theory, The expanded crisis theory, and the applied crisis theory. The basis crisis theory is generally based on the psychoanalytic approach to the crisis, the expanded crisis theory explores the social, environmental and the situational factors contributing the crisis and the applied crisis theory includes 4 major domains namely normal development crisis, situational crisis, ecosystem crisis and the existential crisis (James and Gilliland 2012).

The above situation can be explained well with the help of the basic crisis theory which illustrates the normal grief behaviour of an individual like somatic complaints, isolation and loneliness, boredom, social exclusion, preoccupation with the far away loved ones, homesickness and the feeling of lost and depressed. The theory further illustrates the nature of an individual in the light of the interview assessment that portrays the tendency of a disorganized daily routine of an individual (Major Theories in Social Work Practice 2018). Crisis tends to occur when something generally impedes on an individual’s life’s goals which cannot be overcome by the means of customary behaviours (Ahmed, Amer and Killawi 2017). In the above context, the brief theory can also be illustrated to express the issue of Kalpana. The brief therapy attempts to remediate the ongoing issues related to certain emotions like loneliness, depression, isolation, sadness, less energetic and homesickness. The expanded crisis theory furthermore identifies the social, situational and the environmental factors of crisis that contributes to the ongoing emotional dilemma on the individual.

Thus, the above theories of crisis intervention and the ecological model can and should be used in order to meet the requirements of the clients like Kalpana who are suffering from acute emotional dilemma and depression and struggling with their loneliness and isolation in a far away country.

Loneliness and being alone are two of the different things. Being lonely is a pain that most of the students who goes to study in the abroad universities experiences, I believe loneliness is a universal phenomenon that is a fundamental factor of being the human. The interview assessment summarizes the condition of an international student Kalpana who is suffering from depression and homesickness. Being from a developing country and a country with a different cultures and values it has been difficult for her to cope up with the busy schedule of the country she and her husband is residing in. Being lonely at home tends to attract lots of negative thoughts which finally result in depression. As humans, each and every one of us needs someone, a friend, a companion to share our feels whether it is joy or sorrow or any other emotions. Though Kalpana had her husband with her but most of the day after her university lecture classes she used to get lonely since her husband is out for duty. It has been really tough for her to figure out how to spend the long duration of her time at home. Social isolation is harmful and researches has found that loneliness and isolation can result in serious health hazards and psychological issues of a person. Kalpana tends to spend most of her lonely time at her home either by sleeping or by growing up unhealthy eating habits which are affecting the status of her health in the long-term perspective. Being away from home origin and loved ones makes any individual feel miserable. We all feel homesick and miss our old friends and our dear family members when we are away. Socialization in the place of our residence is thus essential. It helps us and our mind to be engaged and occupied with different sort of activities and thus helps us in dealing with our boredom and loneliness. Going to the park, visiting the library and reading different books can engage one in some of the activities. Further more, I think one of the best ways to deal with the loneliness and boredom and its related depression is to engage in an employment and chatting with new friends and old friends via the social media. Besides this Kalpana can also call her family and do video chatting and calling to see and hear from them. This will automatically make her feel energetic, good and enthusiastic which will contribute to kill her loneliness and boredom. Though Kalpana is a student and has her weekdays classes but finding out some of the part time or weekend jobs can be beneficial for her since she will be engaged in an activity that will definitely kill her loneliness and boredom and fetch her some good amount of pocket money.

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