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Jess and her family were victims of domestic violence. Her oldest son had to separate from his family. The shelter was able to comfort her and reassure her that this is common. Jess was also able to establish her children into their schools, with the expectation of her younger son who has special needs.
Jess and her family were victims of domestic violence. Her oldest son had to separate from his family. The shelter was able to comfort her and reassure her that this is common. Jess was also able to establish her children into their schools, with the expectation of her younger son who has special needs.
Jess and her family were victims of domestic violence. Her oldest son had to separate from his family. The shelter was able to comfort her and reassure her that this is common. Jess was also able to establish her children into their schools, with the expectation of her younger son who has special needs.
In this case the Social worker was faced with many barriers to help her client. Working with Jess and her family as they were victims of Domestic violence, there were policies that hindered her ability to help her in ways that she wished she could. During my Field placement at a homeless shelter we faced some similar struggles with policy in our ability to help our clients. The first issue that arose when Jess and her Family arrived to the Domestic violence shelter was that they had to her oldest son had to separate from his family. The shelter themselves had a policy that was based on past experiences of youth who came from home with domestic violence displaying anger and aggression. Jess eldest son was able to stay at another shelter specifically for youth. This can create a barrier for both the family and the shelter. In the mothers case she was nervous about being separate from her son, as she wanted to protect him. The shelter was able to comfort her and reassure her that this is common and that they would make sure their family spent time together each day. Valerie was also able to help Jess feel comfortable to share her history, as it relates to her current situation. Jess was able to open up about her childhood depression and her martial story. Jess sadly explained that her husband began to beat her once she was pregnant with their first child, and then after that continued to beat her. These beating lead to her having two spate miscarriages. Jess oldest son is fifteen years of age, which means that she has been experiencing this abuse for all of that time, in silence. Although she did have a support system within her Brother, although he lives in another state. A strong support system is always valuable and, in this situation can be crucial to her success of exiting the situation. Throughout her time at the shelter jess had much progress, she was able to establish her children into their schools, with the expectation of her younger son who has special needs. The new school that he was at needed to complete an Individual education plan for him in order to re-certify his special needs. Jess unfortunately was unable to accomplish this while in the shelter but does plan to do so soon. New jess was able to provide herself with education for job training, this was she can support herself and her family. After nearly a month in the shelter jess along with the support of her social worker was able to get into a supportive housing, and get her family back together. While there were some bumps in the road, this sparked Valeries motivation to advocate for jess and her other clients to bring up some the issues with polices that they faced. Some of these policies included, how can victims of domestic violence receive medical treatment and be covered by their insurance? How to be sure victims of domestic violence and their children can receive mental health care services without legal repercussions? And even asking about the policy of not admitting children over the age of 14.
Silverman, R.C. and Lieberman, A.F. (1999) - Negative Maternal Attributions, Projective Identification, and The Intergenerational Transmission of Violent Relational Patterns.