Discussion: Abuse is a common family crisis.
Discussion: Abuse is a common family crisis.
Abuse is a common family crisis. Consider the following scenario and then answer the question that follows in a 1-2 page paper:
Case Scenario-
Family affected by physical abuse
You are interviewing the mother of two daughters, a 2 year old and a 5 year old. The mother has been referred to you by the local crisis shelter for battered women. This is her third visit to the shelter. In the past, she has refused crisis intervention therapy. She tells you that she is considering leaving her abusive husband, but doesn’t want to “break up the family.” You have interviewed the 5 year old daughter, and it is obvious that she shows signs of emotional/psychological trauma. The mother is in denial about her daughters having been traumatized by her husband’s abusive behavior. She states, “I grew up in an abusive home, and I turned out OK.” You learn that in the past the mother has struggled with addiction and has been in and out of abusive relationships.
In your paper, describe factual information that you might provide this mother to help her better understand how her husband is traumatizing her children. Include your considerations regarding the daughters’ traumatic symptoms. (You may choose which symptoms the children display.) Remember, you can’t tell this client what to do, but knowledge may be your best weapon. What factual data and information can you provide the mother to help her understand how this abuse is affecting her? Be specific. Give examples.
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.
