Social Work Theory

The age of sixteen is characterized by the personal anxiety of teenagers, which acquires its specific display in their conduct. The personal concern is a mixture of inherent psychological determinants and external conditions. While psychological determinants comprise the characteristics of the emotional sphere of the teenager, their attitude to oneself, and interpersonal needs, the external conditions are presented by social and psychological attributes like gender, social status in the system of education, and the position in the group of pupils.

The present situation with the boy's case looks like the following. The school does not approve of fair conduct: the absent rate is too high, and the level of academic performance is low. The relationships between Fai, his teacher, and his classmates leave much to be desired. The situation worsened when Fai was suspected of having stolen the classmate's money and was punished by the teacher last year.

Fai's father died two years ago what increased the boy's tragic assumption of the outside world. When the boy comes home, he sees his mother with a strange man he does not like, this person will never substitute his father, and the boy is reluctant to understand his mother's love.

The only remedy that the boy finds in his situation is playing online games overnight. Computer addiction does not positively influence the boy's health and behavior. The condition aggravates because the boy does not realize his problem and is reluctant to adjust to the school and the mother's changes.

The goals of the therapies applied consist of the following. The general target of helping the boy is to nurture the change in the boy's life and modify the priorities of his self-development.

This will increase the sense of the boy's family's inter-connection and belonging by encouraging every family member's individuation. Other goals are to increase Fai's self-esteem and greater openness to the school experience and the relationships with his mother.

It will be done through fostering the client's agreement between his idealized and actual selves, better self-understanding, establishing more positive and comfortable relationships with his mother, his mother's friend, his classmates, his teachers, and other people around. The application of behavior therapy presupposes such goals as changing the boy's way of acting, feeling, thinking, and coping. By monitoring and evaluating the boy's progress, we will help him change the way he needs to change.

Unlike the first two approaches, this will be based less on Fai's life experience; more attention will be paid to his present life. In terms of this theory, we will improve the boy's self-control by developing his skills, abilities, and independence, not into the prejudice of his school performance or relationships with the people around him.

Family systems theory had developed from general systems theory when its application to families and other social systems was found effective. Family systems interact in patterns; these patterns determine how the family systems should function.

The family system approach is an effective means when treating someone in recovery. We will treat Fai's case as the one aiming at his rally.

We will need the information on the family history and dynamics where Fai is an individual part. As the boy's current living situation is known only in general, we need to learn more about it. We will gather information from teachers about the boy's performance in art class and his behavior there.

We will inquire Fai's classmates about their relationships with the boy. It would be beneficial if we understood how the boy sees his problem. It is most likely that the boy will be reluctant to speak about his life experience, school performance, and the like. Our task is to make the boy feel free in communication with us; he will trust us only in absolute confidence. The boy should not feel as if he serves as a guinea pig but should think that we can help him in the present situation.