Risk taker, engages in conflicts with mom, truancy, stealing.
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What is a risk factor within Tracy's family?
Answers may vary: lack of supportive relationships, inefficient discipline, low parental monitoring, no extended family.
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In the past, what pro-social activities was Tracy participating in?
Track and swimming.
100
What is a risk factor within Tracy's school system?
There is an integration of middle school and high school students.
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What is a risk factor within Tracy's community?
The community lacks family community resources, such as a movie theatre or shopping mall.
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Why is Tracy a good candidate for MST?
Tracy has a lot of oppositional defiant behaviors.
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What is the main issue in Tracy's family?
Tracy has a high conflict relationship with her mother.
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What is a risk factor within Tracy's peer group?
Answers may vary: Tracy associates with a deviant group that engages in drug use, criminal activity and risky sexual behavior.
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What is a protective factor within Tracy's school system?
Tracy's school is providing a truancy officer to ensure that she is attending.
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What is a protective factor within Tracy's community?
There is a YMCA, where Tracy used to enjoy swimming.
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What is a protective factor that Tracy has?
Tracy has a high I.Q.
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Why is Tracy's mom being in recovery considered a protective factor?
She is a role model for Tracy.
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Why did Tracy begin to associate with a deviant peer group?
Tracy was not receiving support within her own family.
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How does the school contribute to Tracy's issues at home?
The school does not communicate their concerns with Tracy's mother.
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What factor from the community contributes to Tracy's association with a deviant peer group?
There are a lack of areas to engage in pro-social activities, such as a park or community center.
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What would be an appropriate intervention to use to address Tracy's risk taking behaviors?
Solution focused therapy.
400
Name a community driver from the "family fit circle."
There is a lack of family activities to engage in within the community, there are no nearby family therapists.
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What "individual" driver caused Tracy to associate with a deviant peer group?
Tracy is easily influenced and easily gives into peer pressure.
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What is another risk factor within Tracy's school system?
They do not have a social worker available to discuss Tracy's issues.
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What is a support group that Tracy could utilize within her community, given that her mother is a recovering alcoholic?
ALATEEN.
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Apply a principle from MST to solution-focused therapy.
Answers may vary: Present-focused, action oriented, increasing responsibility.
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Utilizing functional family therapy, what is function of the problem in Tracy's family?
Distancing.
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How could you use the MST strengths perspective to encourage Tracy to associate with a pro-social peer group?
Focus on Tracy's strengths, prior to her O.D.D behavior, such as participating in track and swimming.
Extra credit: Attending school on a regular basis.
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What is a protective factor in Tracy's school?
They provide extra-curricular activities that Tracy is interested in, such as track and swimming.
500
How could you utilize the MST model to implement an ecological community intervention?
Create a list of enjoyable activities the family could do together (such as hiking, cooking, walking dog) and have them commit to doing it twice a week.