Ethical and Context Responsive Practice: Skye's Case Analysis Report

This report examines the complex case of Skye, a 15-year-old in care, and the ethical challenges faced by a child safety officer. It explores the context of Skye's traumatic experiences, drug abuse, and desire to live with her mother, along with her mother's struggles and the need to balance lawful rights. The report delves into practice theory, identifying relevant questions and strategies, including task-centered and solution-focused approaches. It emphasizes the importance of practitioner, organizational, and user knowledge, demonstrating reflection on the practice situation to promote ethical and context-responsive practice. The report also includes a visual display of the framework for enquiry, highlighting the need for support, resilience-building, and emotional intelligence. The report concludes by summarizing the role of the social worker in addressing Skye's needs and facilitating a safe and supportive environment, which is a crucial part of the overall process.

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Introduction
Most social workers during their practice have to deal with difficult life situations. If the
situations were not so complicated to resolve, then people would often happen to manage on
their own without the help of a social worker (Trotter 2015). This paper mainly focuses on
the proposition of the difficulty of the situation of Skye that as a child safety officer had to
deal with the way, which contributes, to ethical and context responsive practice. The various
threads of this scenario emphasize on different phase of social work practice. They are:
Skye’s traumatic experience in the residential care, struggle of Janet while raising her other
three children, Skye’s issues with drug abuse and separation from her mother, struggle to
concentrate on her studies while having conflict with others and the wish of Skye to visit and
live with her mother. The above list of issues is not only comprehensive but it also tells that
the child safely officers have to assign in both creating practical preparations and emotional
and behavioral substance of the scenario. Social workers are a section of the official and
managerial systems and as a child safety officer it has to work. I have to consider the lawful
rights and responsibilities that are expert and official, and that my clients have parents and
citizens.
Key aspects of the practice theory
Practice theory is a feature of social work theory, which deals with ways to perform social
work where thoughts are developed to authorize models and theories of practice and the
means of practicing. This theory and model will aid in the investigation of the scenario and
resolve the issue of Skye (Dalkir 2013). The theory tries to create sense in the social work
that includes a formal and informal group of thoughts and ideas. For further clarification, a
formal practice theory is usually written, in print, confirmation and analysis properly worked
out in a balanced ordered form. It provides broad thoughts that can be useful deductively to
exacting practice scenario that means the ideas are practical to the circumstances quite

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somehow than the condition creating ideas. Unlike, Skye’s residential care facility in
Queensland, who take have been taking care of her from the past three years, they do not
support her mentally or emotionally. My major responsibility as a social worker would be to
check on her physical health, her studies, and her day-to-day struggle with other conflicts in
the residential home, drug issues, injuries from fights, and the love and care that she misses
from that living with her mother (James 2017). I need to fulfill her wish of visiting and living
with her mother keeping in mind all the other aspects and protective orders. Informal practice
theory illustrates on thoughts and practice achieved in life and. It is useful inductively that
means the hypothesis derived from the specific scenario and is widespread to other applicable
put into practice situations. This would require making decisions about the similarities and
differences in this scenario and a generalized situation. The situation must be carefully
handled with relevant knowledge and ideas by analyzing the complex contents with people
and organization involved.
Identifies important practice relevant questions
The important relevant questions for exploring the scenario and possible complexities would
be whether Skye would be recovered from the residential home and live with her mother,
whether her mother could take the responsibility of Skye along her three other children
(Ridley-Duff and Bull 2015). In addition, whether Skye could continue her studies as she has
been doing well, whether Skye could be treated as other teenagers and lead a normal life
rather than dealing with the drug abuses and fights. These strong and relevant questions have
been identified to explore and investigate the scenario and various other contexts.
Relevant strategies for enquiring into the various contexts
Social workers tend to deal with different complexities with different individuals or some
official responsibilities. The Practice theory tends to stipulate measures that have taken place

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with family, which is relevant to this kind of scenario. Many other practice theories like task-
centered, solution-focused practice or behavioral practice assume an accurate of behavior.
These systems or strategies would give ideas about this scenario and categorize a response
that Skye and her mother will understand and accept (Punch 2013). For instance, the task-
centered strategy would help the social practitioners and customers to spot a sequence of
tasks to be shared. Solution-focused practice generalizes achievement in their lives to other
problems, which Skye is facing in the residential care where she is facing difficulty. By the
help of these relevant strategies, it will be easier to enquire into various complexities of the
situation. I would have to deal with then complex relationship between Skye and Janet and
other family members, with a lawful term on some of the criteria’s of social welfare
stipulation, and the condition of post of kind service lies outside of most theories. As a child
safety officer, I need to come up with different strategies to handle complex situations like
this. It is required for the social workers to bring out the thoughts and strategies that approach
from practice theory and model jointly with additional feature of social work information in
which they work (Santamaría and Santamaría 2015, pp 22-42). Organizational knowledge
deals with government and agencies regulation that involves safety of the child and
residential care facility of Skye. Practitioner knowledge includes experience gathered from
practice, which is likely to be unspoken, private and context-specific. User knowledge
includes users’ information of their lives, circumstances and utilization of services, also
including the observations of children and teenagers. Research knowledge including
methodical investigation dispersed in information. Policy community including facts obtained
from managers, official certification and examination of strategy research (Hepworth et al.,
2016). The different knowledge and resources are given below in the diagram:

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Moreover, I would take this acquaintance together to put into practice in methods that react to
the personal way of the family and shape of answer recognized by the government agency
and regulations as appropriate to my roles and responsibilities.
Demonstrated reflection on the practice situation in ways which promote ethical and
context responsive practice
To deal with such situations and promote ethical as well as context responsive practice, I
would go beyond my duties and resolve Skye’s demand to visit and live with her mother and
get her a normal life. Some of the ways to promote responsive practice are: caring, that brings
jointly two elements including accessibility and honesty of Skye’s needs and demands. A
practical reply to the sympathetic situation thus achieved about the customer and their
situation, so that Skye’s and her mother is individual growth and control of their conditions is
improved (Johns 2017). Enhancing resilience includes civilizing the ability of persons and
families to react to the social concern that they countenance in their life. Emotional labor and
intelligence, includes reacting in a way that is satisfactory to the Skye and her family to their
thoughts and improving their capability to cope up with the touching anxiety of their

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situation. Support being equipped to place next to Janet as she works through what is
occurring to her family. There is a process to understand the events or actions. The below
diagram shows the approaches:
Janet should be supported with her income in order to fulfill her responsibilities of her three
children. Along with, situations must be created so that Skye could come and live with her
and accept her as a child and give her all the care and love that she had been deprived of. A
government or agency initiative must be taken to support Skye’s studies to let her continue
her studies as she has been performing well in her school. Being a child, she should get all the
facilities and the basic needs that a teenager gets keeping in mind the other aspects. As a
child, she should not have faced the traumatic experience of running way or dealing with
drug abusers or fighting with other conflicts. By understanding their situation, Janet would
take her back and accept as her child. Practice frameworks and strategies give further chance
to collect theory, investigate and information types into theoretical guides for put into
practice. Social work management also provides an imperative device for the investigation of

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these kinds of issues so that the practice is educated in ways that build up well result for
children like Skye and their families.
Demonstrated capacity to summarize and visually display the framework for enquiry
developed and shared
Looking again at Janet’s and Skye’s situation, the child safety officer in Queensland
concerned would require a huge deal of organizational and practitioner knowledge and
information that I already have about how the society and organizations need to be get in
touch with, followed and encouraged to deal with the a variety of problems the children and
teenagers face. Prevailing in this position, it would entail lively detection of the relations to
ensure that Skye and her siblings safe (Kadushin and Harkness 2014). The role and
responsibility is fractured so much that social practitioners could not take for granted that
these cases would move between establishments modestly (Healy 2014). Skye would be
assisted to deal with her grief in her new quite remote place, or that the police would interfere
efficiently to protect Skye in her residential home facility or that the school will be able to
understand her situation and allow her to continue wither her studies. By analyzing their
situation, it would help to take Skye out of her harassment and isolation from that haunting
place and give her a normal life. In this way, social practitioners could think on how anxiety
would grow at the time of failure, and when additional attempt to assist would be necessary.
It would be significant to be ready to listen to the unusual issues of the participants Janet and
Skye’s fears and anxieties. Also about the force of the grief and taking Skye into her family
since her behavior may reproduce increasing pressure and give chance to make easy some
interference to help her and safe relationships for Skye and her family. Being organized to act
to help out determine exacting problems as they happen is sympathetic since it means
position next to inhabitants at a hard time. I have stated that to deal with difficulty need more
of communal workers than subsequent instruction of practice hypothesis that may be too

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oversimplified to be functional in intricate situations (Sykes and Dean 2013, pp 179-192).
Practice theory may be related to meticulous characteristic of situations within the difficulty
of Practice theory. Frameworks provide additional opportunities to collect theory, research
and information types into theoretical guides for live out people’s lives. It may present
thoughts about how to see the circumstances that customers are dealing with. However, social
workers or practitioners also necessitate professioning on a series of font of acquaintance and
react to the involvedness in many of the condition that they deal with by examining and
considering the procedure and route of issues as they have happened in customer’s lives.
They require employing that information and theory in a kind, expressively intelligent and
helpful way with the aspiration of unraveling a variety of rudiments of a multifaceted scheme
and ornamental the flexibility both of the inhabitants involved and the communal and
managerial system that they are tangled with.
Conclusion
Therefore, from the above paper it can be concluded that to deal with such complex situations
people are required the help of social workers to manage the situations. They tend to be used
to deal with such situations and should have relevant sources and knowledge to help customer
and their families to get out of the situation keeping in mind all other aspects of the
organization, which require extra care, support and emotional help to recover out of the
situation apart from the practice theories and frameworks. Experienced social workers with
proper information and facts are required to cope up with such scenarios, which are
extremely sensitive to handle. In this case, of Skye, she required a social worker with whom
she would be comfortable and fulfill her wish to stay with her mother. Therefore, from the
above said theories and frameworks, it would be helpful for them to handle all the struggles
that they deal in their everyday life.

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Mind map
Broad
context (or
contexts if
these are
interacting)
Specific
aspect of this
you have
foregrounded
The
question
you are
asking to
inform your
practice
The sources of
knowledge
and
understanding
relevant to this
The process or
strategy you will
use to access this
knowledge or
enhance
understanding
Any ethical
considerations
you should be
mindful of?
Institutional
context Child safety
officer
Questions
asked to
residential
care about
her
conflicts
and studies
User,
organizational,
policy
community
Practice theory or
complex
relationships
Respect, good
listener,
empathy and
timely care
Emotional
context
Relationship
with mother
Questions
about
feelings of
the mother
Attachment
theory
Strength based
approach
Keeping in
mind the code
of conducts
and values of
the
organization

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and to not
break any
governmental
laws

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