JOURNEY TO LICENSURE STUDY QUESTIONS

QUESTION 1 #  

Mohammed and Samr A. seek help from a family agency. They are recent immigrants to the U.S from Egypt. Through traditional in their views, they are making an adequate adjustment. Both Mr. and Mrs. A are employed and they will shortly open their own business. In a first interview they emotionally complain that their daughter, Suhar, aged 15, is going out with boys. Not only do they strongly disapprove of the freedom that American teens have, but they do not want Suhar to go out unescorted by family members. The parents want the social worker to help them control Suhar’s behavior. Suhar says she loves and respects her family, but that she needs more freedom. The social worker’s strategy should initially focus on

1. Helping the parents conform to and respect new cultural conditions.
2. Helping Suhar conform with her parent’s wishes
3. Reassuring the parents about Suhar’s behavior
4. Sustaining the parent’s relationship with Suhar and helping to mediate and negotiate their contradictory concerns.

QUESTION 2#

A family service agency receives a request for assistance from a woman with three young children under 10 years old. At the first interview she states that her husband with whom she had an excellent relationship, was killed in an automobile accident a few days earlier. She seems somewhat disoriented and exhibits acute anxiety, breaking into tears as she discusses her feelings.

 The worker should first

1. Seek to help her adjust to the new situation and assist her in acclimating herself to living alone.
2. Address her current situation and emotional state as an acute grief reaction.
3. As her how she is helping the children adjust.
4. Suggest she join a group