Social Work Practice: Assessment of Loneliness and Crisis Intervention Theory

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Social Work Practice
Name of the student
Name of the university
Author note

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Introduction
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).
Critical analysis and assessment of the content gathered from the interview
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

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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