Christy Barzona
Social Work Practice 01
March 21, 2017 Preliminaries:
1. Knowledge-
a) Migrant Worker- Ruth was a born into the migrant work, she would have most likely been a migrant worker her whole life; if she did not get close to the “crew leader”. Being a migrant worker was not easy for Ruth. She had poor working conditions, and bad pay. She was determined to get herself out of this working environment.
b) Mental/physical abuse- Ruth’s father and mother both struggled with alcohol abuse and often took it out on Ruth. Her mother often urged her to do things she was not comfortable with: including marriage. Her mother often referred to her as “strange” and different from the rest of them. Because, Ruth was not one who would fall into
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Mezzo) Ruth has a Mother and Father, two younger sisters who both have husbands and children. Along with a younger brother who also has children. She has some friends at the gas station, the only decent make in her life is the “crew leader”.
1c. Macro) Ruth visits a local catholic church in her twenties, where she considered becoming a nun. She goes to the Lounge to try and get away the way her father did.
2. Client systems
2a. Biological- Refers to anything and everything that happens in “your bag of skin” or body. Ruth explains how she got headaches, and stomach pains. She often said she got physically sick when thinking of men.
2b. Psychological- refers to anything that relates to your mind-set. Including emotions, thoughts and mentality. Ruth hated being a migrant worker. She expressed having suicidal thoughts. She often said if she were to commit suicide it would just be “another migrant girl dead”. She explained having what she called ‘Psychological determinism’ which to her is that everyone has a reason to be driven in life.
2c. Social- refers to how you interact with others. Ruth has distance herself from most of the people in her life, due to negativity. She has friends from the gas station but she is not as close as she could be with them. Ruth explains that her crew leader became the closest thing to family that she
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lastly, another concern would be her love and belonging. Which in your hierarchy of needs is classified as friendship, family and sexual intimacy. Ruth has very little to none of all those. She cut ties with her family, has no close friends and no significant other.
4. Strengths
4a. Courage- Ruth Showed a huge amount of courage by cutting out the negativity in her life, and not breaking down to get married when she didn’t want to get married. She didn’t fall under the peer pressure of her family.
4b. Possibility- Ruth shows possibility in furthering her working career. She knew that she didn’t want to be just a simple migrant worker in the field. She got close to the crew leader, who is now teaching her to run shifts at the gas station, and take control of the management duties.
Planning
1. Ruth needs someone who can empathize with her who will let her talk about her feelings without judgement. Ruth needs someone who can be there to listen, someone to have a connection with. I will allow her to realize who she was, and how successful she actually was, even though she does not see it in herself right now.
Concern Need Level of
There was only one good thing that Ruth took away from her father; She needed to be strict with her children about their education, but still loving at the same time. This parenting style became a part of Ruth, and shaped her identity of how to act as a mother and a member of society. Tateh was a terrible and hypocritical father, but he did help shape Ruth’s identity by showing her all of his flaws.
* This chapter was written in Italics because it was written from a different point of view which was Ruth’s perspective who talks about her past as a child.
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