Required Assignment: Family Theory and Intervention Paper:
This assignment is approximately a 6-8 page paper that requires students to demonstrate their
understanding of the specific tasks and skills involved in the beginning and middle phase of
practice with a family and the theoretical and empirical support for their work. Using a family
that the student is working with or could envision working with, the student their agency or
could envision working with and discuss the following:
the agency you work for and its
mandate; who is the client or client system and how they were referred; the presenting concern;
and other important information necessary to understand the case situation
● A brief description of the agency context and mission, client identifying information, how
the client/client system was referred, the presenting issue (s)
● Preparation Issues/Decision (e.g. who should be included and when)
● Engagement Techniques (e.g. joining)
● Problem and Goal Specification
● Assessment of Family Functioning (including a genogram and ecomap)
● Intervention Strategies in Working with this Family.
The discussion and critique of each stage should be grounded in the relevant required readings
and at least 3 additional readings from academic journals that inform how to work with this
family at each stage of the intervention process.
The discussion and critique of this session should be grounded in the relevant required readings
and at least 3 additional readings from academic journals that inform how to work with this
family.
A genogram and ecomap is needed as well.
