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Legal Case Study: A Cursed Child
In the case, A Cursed Child, Ruby Malcolm had a meeting with a social worker at United Family Services. Ruby is concerned about her daughter who has violent outbursts with swearing, she says things to people that no one understands, sometimes she has crying fits, and she frequently skips school. Ms. Malcolm was beginning to feel like nothing she did made a difference. Ms. Malcom’s parents thought that she should physically punish her daughter however Ms. Malcolm did not believe in hitting her children. However, she was concerned about her son being influenced by her daughter, Irene’s behaviors.
Problem Identification The problem is how Sandra should approach the treatment team with Ms. Malcolm’s intentions. Ms. Malcolm intended to remove …show more content…
Malcolm to make her own decisions and continue to build a relationship with Sandra. The family would get more education on western medicine practices and the risks associated with removal from services and medication. It can be dangerous to stop medication abruptly. You are advised to down dose off of most medications. Some disadvantages to this option would be that it might not be possible to perform the spiritual ritual at the facility. The treatment team could be completely against Sandra’s ideas and Ms. Malcolm’s wishes. This could also cause issues for Sandra at work with her co-workers and she would have to explain why she supported Ms. …show more content…
The disadvantages to this alternative are numerous. Sandra could lose rapport with the client. Ms. Malcolm could terminate therapy with Sandra. Ms. Malcolm could still pull her daughter from the facility without Sandra’s blessings. Ms. Malcolm mentioned that she was becoming assimilated to America and one disadvantage could be that Ms. Malcolm and her family could lose more of their cultural identities if not able to carry out the ceremony. Ms. Malcolm and her children run the risk of losing the support of her parents or causing issues in the family system by not doing what is believed to be the norm in their
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