Short Term 12 (96 minutes)
At an inpatient treatment facility for at-risk teenagers, Grace is a young counselor trying to do her best for kids who often have been pulled from the worst kinds of home situations. Even then, life is not easy as Grace and her colleagues care for kids who are too often profoundly scarred, even as they try to have lives of their own. Now, things are coming to a head as Grace readies for marriage even as some her charges are coming to major turning points in their lives. To cope, Grace will have to make difficult perceptions and decisions that could put her career, and more importantly her charges, at dire risk.
Your assignment should be 2-3 pages in length (plus a separate reference page
o Expect to write 2 full paragraphs in response to each of the assigned questions.
o A full paragraph is 5-7 sentences long.
· Fully respond to the main prompt of each question.
o You do not have to answer all of the sub-questions posted for each main question.
§ The sub-questions are designed to help you think more about how you might respond to the prompts.
· Make sure to use APA style formatting, in-text citations, and references.
o Please use the exact citations and references listed below on page 2.
o Cite every sentence that includes information that you saw in the film or read in the textbook.
· Everything must be in your own words.
Textbook : https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/introhumanservices2e/front-matter/preface/
Film: Short Term 12 by Destin daniel Cretton
Questions:
1. Reflect on the assigned video. Describe 2-3 key scenes that you found particularly meaningful. Why did you pick those scenes? What did you learn from them? What did you enjoy about this film? Was there anything you didn’t like about it?
· Provide specific details from the film to demonstrate that you watched all of it.
o In-text citation needed for every sentence that includes details from the film.
· Reflect thoughtfully on the scenes you described.
o You must do more than say you liked the scenes, and explain why.
o Describe what you learned from this film and how it makes you think about a human service career with adolescents.
2. Make at least 3 detailed connections between the film and Chapter 6 in the textbook. Explain multiple ways that the film helped you think more deeply about topics discussed in the book. What more did you learn about key points from the textbook by watching the film? The following are some possible questions to guide your response: What type of mental health treatment setting was portrayed in the film? What types of treatment, and specific counseling strategies, were utilized by staff to try and help the youth? What different mental health disorders did youth at the facility seem to have? How does the topic of self-care connect to what you saw happen to staff in the film?
· Make specific connections between details from the film and material from the textbook. You can make connections to other sections in addition to Chapter 6.
o Include an in-text citation (see below) for every sentence that includes details from the film and/or the textbook.
Cretton, D. (Director). (2013).
Short Term 12.
[Motion picture]. United States: Animal Kingdom.
Pearce, E.B., Smith, Y.M., Olsen, A., Jones, T., Ochoa-Leyva, M., Anstett, A., Hardy, J.L.,
Hoover, S.R., Karena, N., & Petean, R. (2023
). Introduction to Human Services (2nd
ed.)
. Open Oregon Educational Resources.
