Working with Family Violence

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WORKING WITH FAMILY VIOLENCE
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Introduction
The goals of the human services domain devoid of organizations would be unfeasible to
accomplish. Human services is identified as an extensive sector which entails an extensive range
of disciplines, awareness, expertise and skills paying attention towards improving human welfare
at individual and mutual level. Social workers are accountable for aiding individuals, families
along with groupings of individuals to efficiently deal with issues which they are encountering to
develop their life conditions (Maidment & Egan, 2016). It has been noted that within the domain
of social work, there can be observed various specializations and sectors that experts can follow
and shed light on. While these different domains all individuals necessitate practitioners to show
the foundations of social work such as empathy, resilience and persistence and respect for
various circumstances. There are several skill sets and knowledge that social workers will require
to assist with issues unswervingly caused by distress, disability, destabilized family conditions,
ill-treatment, psychological as well as emotional troubles, addiction and sensitive, chronic or
terminal ill health (Australian Community Workers Association, 2007). Some social workers
tend to shed light on skills as one area of expertise by going into specific fields. The primary aim
of this paper is to explain the use of attachment theory and strengths-based approaches to relate
to the case study of Bailey who has been seeking youth support service after leaving home for
almost 8 months.
Discussion
Human services professionals engaged to community, residential care services or
institutional settings offering direct services for instance leading a group, arranging activities, or
efficiently offering individual counseling. Fletcher and Fitness (2014) have noted that social

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work practitioners have the capacity to handle certain administrative support tasks. According to
Cournover (2008), since several social work practitioners include direct association with people
who are undergoing distressed situations and are susceptible to exploitation. At this juncture,
social work practitioners have been applying the approach in order to stimulate the enthusiasm of
the clients. According to Holmes (2014), in a subsystem ‘family’, a disharmonious,
unconstructive family environment with an apprehensive connection ambiance is seen as a vital
factor related to the problem behaviour. A rationalization for such a situation can draw relevance
from the attachment theory developed by Bowlby. Based on the case study of Bailey, it has been
noted that Bailey has left her home around eight months ago. Since leaving her home where she
stayed with her mother and step father, Bailey has been moving around staying with friends,
Lastly, she seek resort to youth support service for getting her daily meals and at least charge her
phone. Such unstable accommodation has led her to develop a sense of homelessness as she has
no secured accommodation and thus failing to attend school. Bailey’s current situation can be
related to attachment theory. Fletcher and Fitness (2014) have noted that the theory establishes a
connection linking the standards of the early parent-child relationship, consequently socio-
emotional improvement in addition to the arrangement of interpersonal relations. Homelessness
in youths is somewhat explained within the support of attachment theory. The association
between family conditions, parenting process, experiences of separation as well as loss in
addition to value of the attachment connection was observed in a group of young people who are
suffering from homelessness (Perlman et al., 2014). The more steady the insecure attachment
experiences, the extent to which an individual tends to develop a working model whereby he or
she constructs an unconstructive image of his or her own and the surrounding world. While
evaluating the case of Bailey, similar occurrences have been observed in which with the constant

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confrontations with the world Bailey failed to depend on neither her own competence nor on the
sustainability of her surroundings. In the view of authors, from the viewpoint of the Attachment
theory, the dilemma of leaving or being away from home or turning to be destitute becoming
homeless is not regarded as an event or the direct outcome of a disagreement with the parents. It
shows higher propensity to be a profoundly rooted psychological crisis, emerging from
substantial absence of trust and resilience in the availability and accessibility of the family
(Adams, 2016). Similarly, Bailey’s crisis is comparable with rising lack of reliance which will be
comprehensive to the wider social setting and consequently result to a general incapacity to
connect in as well as sustain social associates or to the proceed to the avoidance that is conscious
or unaware level of such links. Such a situation as a result, leads to an insecure attachment
atmosphere in itself and consequently tends to be identified as a risk issue for the implication of
fugitive behaviour.
The issue of Bailey exhibits a case of insecure attachment. Although she has a stable
relation with her mother and her elder sister Dana, a 21 years old university student, her primary
apprehensive area concerns her hesitant relationship with her stepfather. As per the attachment
theory, homeless individuals report increased levels of childhood mistreatment which involves
emotional, sexual as well as physical ill-treatment which have resulted to increased attachment
insecurity. Barczyk, Thompson and Rew (2014) have noted that homelessness results to a loss of
individual control and trust in the environment in the form of: threats to individual wellbeing
along with elevated rates of physical as well as personal assault in shelters. Furthermore, self-
harm implications tend to from indulge in drug usage and insufficient medical assistance which
have significantly contributed to the development of insecure attachment. As a result, the
attachment theory speculates as to the direction of the association between homelessness as well