MSWPG 7107 Social Work With Children, Young People and Families

Running head : CASE STUDY OF JUSTIN
Case study of Justin
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Introduction:
The adolescent is the unique periods of development, which shapes every individual as
the person they are parents, have the critical and central influence in the health and psychic of
their young children. A number of sanctuary advances in the ecological study of human growth
and developments suggested that interaction with the immediate surroundings and the
environment of living effetely influence the psychological well-being of a child.
Bronfenbrenner’s theory defined that complex layer of environment has influences on the
physical and psychological well-being. The interaction between factors in childhood maturing
biology, his immediate family and community, social landscape fuels and steers his development
as an adult. Changes or conflict in one of the layer ripples throughout the layer. The case study
represents such behavior of childhood development of a 12yeras old Justin. His Mother, gill
narrated that his behavior was aggressive and getting worse. Gill also narrated that his behavior
difficult to manage but getting worse over the past six months. Gill also suggested that the
separation has an effect on the Austin. Therefore, this paper will illustrate the factors that
negatively impacted the well being of Justin with the assistance of Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological
Systems Theory, strengths, resources and protective factors of the Justin family and Possible
approaches to facilitating greater wellbeing and person in following paragraphs.
Discussion:
Factors that affected the wellbeing of Justin:
As observed in the case study, Gill was asking help to manage the behavior of her 12
years old child Justin. She described that the Justin tend to become aggressive and his behavior is

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getting worse even with his siblings. She also informed that due to his aggressive behavior, he
was suspended from the school. Urie Bronfenbrenner, the Russian-born American developmental
psychologist, developed ecological systems theory of child development, which suggested that in
order to study the childhood; one must not only consider the immediate environment of a child
but also look into the interaction of the larger environment as well (Hope & Spencer, 2017).
According to the theory, the first environment is microenvironment, the closest layer of the child
which encompasses the relationship and interactions of a child with her immediate environment
which includes family school, neighborhood (Bronfenbrenner, 2018). In the context of the case
study, the assumed prime reason for his different psychological is his family. As described in the
case study, Justin was close to his father, he was “daddy’s boy”. Therefore, the separation
reduced the close contact with his father, which in turn affected the parent-child bond. According
to Hertler et al. (2018), the child feels less close to his father, which negatively impacted his
psychological well being and resulted in turn separation anxiety and aggressive behavior (Sallis,
Owen, & Fisher, 2015). Mesosystem represents the connection between the structures of the
child’s Microsystems. Ecosystem represents a larger social system such as work pace of parent
or community-based family resources where child does not interact directly but influences the
development of the childhood (Payir et al., 2017). In the context of the case study, gill narrated
that she had a successful career after the birth of Justin but she repented for placing him in
childcare since Justin might needed his mother in his early years of development. In the early
years of childhood development, infants needed their primary caregiver which is mother of the
child (Eriksson, Ghazinour, & Hammarström, 2018). Despite receiving good care in childcare
and from grandparents, the lack of close contact with immediate family members impacted his
psychological well being of the child (Cohen & Waite-Stupiansky, 2017). The lack of close

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contact installs a feeling of abandonment in the child, which resulted in aggressive behavior, and
feeling of anger in the child (McCartney, 2018). His mother prohibited him to meet his father,
which negatively impacted his psychological wellbeing. It gave rise to the sense of hatred
towards his mother. Kinder said he had a lot of trouble in the first week of separation and settling
now. Moreover, marital conflict, which is accompanied by divorce, places the social behavior of
the child at risk (Follari, 2015). Since Justin was daddy’s boy and he was close to his father
compared to his mother, after separation he was not comfortable with the father being with the
other woman because it hindered him to spend time with his father alone and he hated to see his
father in a weekend. Macrosystem also impacted the well-being of a child since this layer
comprised of cultural values, customs, and laws (Winnick & Porretta, 2016). It says that the
cultural believes impacted the proper raising of a child. Gill suggested they did not have active
involvement with the church but whenever they went to church Justin refuse to go to church
since he lacks the basic cultural values. Since adolescence is the life period between childhoods,
adulthood where the transition between parental dependence to relative anatomy occurs. All of
these incidents negatively impacted his well-being, and he was in emotional turmoil, lacks the
flexibility to adapt in changing socio-cultural demands that resulted in unusual behavior
(Meltzer, 2018). His report card suggested that he was not achieving well and lagging behind
other kids. He bullied other kids and he was reluctant to meet workers when his family members
are present, rather agreed to interact with workers alone (Thomas, 2015). However, he involved
in sports such as football and cricket and Fred actively involved with the administration of
Justin’s football club, where his accounting skills are valued.
Protective factors of Justin’s family: