Case study

Case Study

The aim of this discussion paper is to examine situation of family living in small rural town. This will talk about the position in detailed context. Mrs. Joan Carter (mother) and Mr. Roy Carter (father) were apprehended in September and each expended 4 days in jail. They had a contention with their oldest female child; Crystal (16) and the mother strike her with a broom. No assess was left but the female child went to school and told in a counselor who in turn called the police. When the policeman reached, the mother presumed they were there on another issue (Crystal was been raped by a non-family constituent last summer) and went to the position with them. At the position, she was notified of the accusation and incarcerated. Later, Mr. Carter was apprehended at dwelling when he returned from work. Mrs. Carter was ascribed with progeny endangerment and Mr. Carter was ascribed with verbal abuse. Upon issue, Mrs. Carter described that the detectives acknowledged and said that "we're regretful it took so long to issue you." According to a guard in the prison, its evolving more widespread to incarcerate parents when there are accusations of abuse. Mr. and Mrs. Carter were allotted distinct lawyers. (Payne, p.223)

Joan's situation

The main aspect of scenario that this paper will focus on is socio-economic situation of family, particularly Joan's unemployment, drug addiction and weak parental skills which are influenced by number of factors:

·  Living in small rural town: limited work opportunities, isolation, difficulties in accessing services and not enough support

·Long term job loss: stereotyped, financial and communal disadvantage

·Patriarchal ideology: apparently defined gender roles

·  Drug habit: labeled, economic hardship. (Payne, p.223)

Structural social work theory

They require for an alternate to accept communal work is more conspicuous today than ever before. Given its acceptance of our present communal alignment and its focus on restructure of the one-by-one and restricted communal restructure, accepted communal work seems powerless to deal with the expanding communal difficulties that have currently overloaded a weakening welfare state.

This item recounts the participative procedures and outcomes of a co-operative investigation task that discovered fourth year communal work students' ethical decision-making in area education. First, the item concerns the pedagogical objectives of functional communal work learning to the ethical trials of functional communal work practice. Second, it summaries a self-driven structure for ethical conclusion producing that was utilized in the study task to assist direct scholars in ethical conclusion making. Finally, the item concludes with a consideration of the study outcome and significances for functional communal work education.

Living in rural town

Thus, to access the drug services or better medical help for his wife, Joan probably has to travel to the bigger city, which in turn costs money that he does not have and he had to face trouble. Considering all this, obviously broader socio-economic structures are at fault for not providing an environment which enables personal survival or social fulfilment. (Mullaly, p.97)

Unemployment

One of form of oppression - marginalisation, does apply to Joan's situation. Joan has right ...