Intervention Plan for Children's Wellbeing in a Case Study

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Introduction:
Socio-Emotional development begins with parental bonding with children. The bonding
allows the mother to respond to the child’s needs timely and binding with parents. Asarnow et
al. (2016), suggested that in many countries, the infant mortality rate is extremely high due to the
negligence of the children and infants by parents. Felitti et al. (2015), highlighted that a
significant number of parents failed to address the need of their children adequately due to
poverty, family violence, unemployment, and other factors. Hence, to improve the wellbeing of
the child, social workers are required to provide support with the assurance of Child, Adolescent
and Family Health Services. This paper will illustrate an intervention plan in part A and critical
reflection in part B in the following paragraphs.
Discussion:
Part a:
Provide a summary of the significant historical information:
The case study represents wellbeing issues of two children a boy Tom, aged 7 years in
Year 1 and a girl, Anna, aged 8 in Year 2, who were referred to the Child Well-being Unit by e
Home School Liaison Officer (HSLO) at the local primary school and they are newly arrived in
the childcare unit. In this current context, it was observed that family have recently arrived in
Ruralville, from Melbourne, seeking a more affordable lifestyle. The discrimination of different
race and ethnicity amongst family had been observed where the father of children (George) has
belonged to Greek heritage and the mother has originally belonged to the aboriginal

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community. Currently, they both are unemployed which impacted the mental, physical and
educational wellbeing of their two children. Due to the difference in the race and ethicality
between two parents, domestic violence has been prevalent in the family which further impacted
the social, emotional and cognitive development of the children.
The values, assumptions and ethical considerations in this case:
Considering the case study, it can be observed that difference in the race and ethnicity had
shaped the mentality of George and George had adopted poor values which further impact his
relationship with his wife and wellbeing of the children. One of the prime assumptions, in this
case, is that George was unemployed which subjected him to high psychological distress such as
depression, nervous breakdown, anxiety that reflected through the violence and aggressive
behavior (Saxe et al., 2017). His values of discrimination reflected when he made it clear that e
children weren’t to participate in any ‘Aboriginal activities’ at the school while his wife
identified their children as aboriginal. Sumner et al. (2015), suggested that discrimination,
racism, poverty may have mental and physical health consequences such as frustration, anxiety,
depression. On the other hand, another assumption, in this case, is the fear, anxiety of his
mother due to domestic violence experienced by her husband which further impacted the
wellbeing. Major conflicts of values had been observed through the case study. Taking a deep
insight into the situation, the ethical consideration, in this case, is the autonomy of the family and
cultural competency. While participating in every school activities and gathering adequate
cultural knowledge and sensitivity would be the best intervention in for shaping the social,
cultural development, involving children in aboriginal activities may breach the autonomy
(Saxe et al., 2017). Moreover, social workers are required to be culturally competent while

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addressing the needs of the families as both parents belong to two different cultures and cultural
conflict may exist between them.
Challenges and concern:
There are a range of challenges and concerns have been identified in this case study.
Considering the concerns in this case study, the educational wellbeing of children was affected
as children had missed some school, but when there, they appeared to enjoy the routine.
Additionally, the children did not always bring lunch or have all the equipment required for
school. The children may have a high risk of experiencing domestic violence as their mother
was experiencing. The children may develop poor values of aggression like father and tend to
develop values discrimination due to cultural insensitivity observed in parents (Leloux-Opmeer
et al., 2016). Their mother may be subjected to life-threating health issues due to domestic
violence and may develop mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, and stress (Kiss et
al., 2015). Their father can develop depression due to unemployment which will further affect
the wellbeing of children. Challenge, in this case, is to address the needs of the children by
incorporating cultural activities as both of the parents belong to two different class.
The theoretical framework supports the work with this family:
Differences in the race and ethnicity had shaped the mentality of George and George had
adopted poor values which further impact his relationship with his wife and wellbeing of the
children. Discrimination, racism, poverty may have mental and physical health consequences
such as frustration, anxiety, depression. Due to differences in the class, race and ethnicity as
George belongs to Greek heritage and Mary belong to the aboriginal origin, they both have a