Name: Institution: Professor: Date: Case study of Alicia and Montford. Alicia and Montford. As the mental health service coordinator for both Alicia and Montford, I have investigated there bad grades and can attribute the low grades to their living conditions. It is important to bring to light the exact conditions that the two siblings stay in, first, they live in a homeless compound and their parents are generally people who have given up hope and also given up responsibility of their 6 &7 year old son and daughter. Parents are expected to supervise their young ones daily activities including their education to ensure that they are brought up upright and also have good morals. In the homeless institution, Alicia’s and Montford’s parents are not obliged to take care of their young ones since basic facilities such as food, shelter and care is provided by the state through the homeless institution. Neglect of the children by their parents has resulted has resulted in their drop in school grades. A homeless institution is also not a good environment to bring up young children since they share the same environment with social wrecks such as drunks and drug addicts. This people communicate mostly in foul language based on their environment. The two children have adapted this foul language which can be explained by their swearing and foul language between the parents and other next of kin and relatives. Before creating a problem solving strategy it is important to identify the problems to ensure that the correct resolutions are identified. The current and past living conditions of Alicia and Montford which have negatively affected their character and social skills. The parents have neglected them and have no major input in their education or social interactions. Lack of a permanent home has also resulted in the children’s behavior and bad performance in school. This neglect has resulted in the children’s studies dipping due to lack of parental supervision. The homeless institution is also not a good environment to bring up 6 & 7 year old children due to the characters found in such institutions are generally bad mannered and can only influence children negatively. The parents have also shown a disregard to the welfare of their children neglecting their education and social life, they are therefore one of the main causes of the children’s non performance in education and even socially. Getting them to a children’s home where the parents can visit them will help the kids get away from bad influences since their parents are irresponsible and one of the causes of the neglect. To solve the problem, the children should e sent to special schools where they will be given special attention to help them improve their social skills and education. Special institutions provide such young children with basic needs thus ensuring they do not waste their energy in thinking about food or shelter. They also provide constant supervision thus can help supervise .

1. Name:
Institution:
Professor:
Date:
Case study of Alicia and Montford.
Alicia and Montford.
As the mental health service coordinator for both Alicia and
Montford, I have investigated there bad grades and can attribute
the low grades to their living conditions. It is important to bring
to light the exact conditions that the two siblings stay in, first,
they live in a homeless compound and their parents are
generally people who have given up hope and also given up
responsibility of their 6 &7 year old son and daughter. Parents
are expected to supervise their young ones daily activities
including their education to ensure that they are brought up
upright and also have good morals. In the homeless institution,
Alicia’s and Montford’s parents are not obliged to take care of
their young ones since basic facilities such as food, shelter and
care is provided by the state through the homeless institution.
Neglect of the children by their parents has resulted has resulted
in their drop in school grades. A homeless institution is also not
a good environment to bring up young children since they share
the same environment with social wrecks such as drunks and
drug addicts. This people communicate mostly in foul language
based on their environment. The two children have adapted this
foul language which can be explained by their swearing and foul
language between the parents and other next of kin and
relatives.
Before creating a problem solving strategy it is important to
identify the problems to ensure that the correct resolutions are

2. identified. The current and past living conditions of Alicia and
Montford which have negatively affected their character and
social skills. The parents have neglected them and have no
major input in their education or social interactions. Lack of a
permanent home has also resulted in the children’s behavior and
bad performance in school. This neglect has resulted in the
children’s studies dipping due to lack of parental supervision.
The homeless institution is also not a good environment to bring
up 6 & 7 year old children due to the characters found in such
institutions are generally bad mannered and can only influence
children negatively. The parents have also shown a disregard to
the welfare of their children neglecting their education and
social life, they are therefore one of the main causes of the
children’s non performance in education and even socially.
Getting them to a children’s home where the parents can visit
them will help the kids get away from bad influences since their
parents are irresponsible and one of the causes of the neglect.
To solve the problem, the children should e sent to special
schools where they will be given special attention to help them
improve their social skills and education. Special institutions
provide such young children with basic needs thus ensuring they
do not waste their energy in thinking about food or shelter.
They also provide constant supervision thus can help supervise
their bad behavior. This gives them ample time to concentrate
on their studies. The officials are also trained to handle such
institutions and can change a child’s behavior in a short period.
The special home also has teachers who will cater for Alicia’s
and Montford’s education ensuring that they are at par
educationally with children of their own age.
The goals for the new intervention will measure if the
children’s bad behavior and delinquent behaviors reduces due
to their supervision at the special school. The other measurable
aspect is if Alicia’s and Montford’s school grades improve due
them being changed to their new environment.
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Case study of
Alicia and Montford.
Please try not to use hard words Thank you
Week 3
Individual
Problems and Goals Case Study
Select one of the following three case studies in Ch. 6 of The
Helping Process:
· Case Susanna
· Case James and Samantha
· Case Alicia and Montford
Identify three to five problems in the case study you have
selected.
Write a 500- to 700-word paperthatincludes the following:
· A problem-solving strategy and a goal for each problem
· The services, resources, and supports the client may need
and why

4. · A description of how goals are measurable and
realistically attainable for the client
Here is the case studies
Exercise 3: Careful Assessment
The following case studies are about Susanna, James, Samantha,
Alicia, and Montford, all
homeless children attending school. The principal of the school
has asked you to conduct
an assessment of these children and provide initial
recommendations.
Before you begin this exercise, go to the website that
accompanies this book: www.
wadsworth.com/counseling/mcclam, Chapter Three, Link 1, to
read more about homeless
families and children.
Susanna
Susanna is 15 years old. Th e city where she lives has four
schools: two elementary, one
middle, and one high school. Th ere are about 1,500 students
enrolled in the city/county
school district and about 450 in the local high school that
Susanna is attending. For the
past six months, Susanna has been living with her boyfriend and
his parents. Prior to this,
she left her mother’s home and lived on the streets. She is
pregnant and her boyfriend’s
parents want her to move out of their home. Her father lives in a
town with his girlfriend,
about 50 miles from the city. Her mother lives outside the city
with Susanna’s baby brother.

5. Right now Susanna’s mother is receiving child support for the
two children. Susanna wants
to have a portion of the child support so that she can find a
place of her own to live. Her
mother says that the only way that Susanna can have access to
that money is to move back
home. Susanna refuses to move back in with her mother.
You receive a call from the behavior specialist at Susanna’s
high school. Susanna’s
mother is at the school demanding that Susanna be withdrawn
from school. Susanna’s
mother indicates that Susanna will be moving in with her and
will be enrolling in another
school district.
Currently Susanna is not doing very well in school. She misses
school and she tells the
helper it is because she is tired and that she does not have good
food to eat. She has not told
the helper that she is looking for a place to live. Right now she
is failing two of her classes
and she has one B and two Ds. Her boyfriend has missed a lot of
school, too.
James and Samantha
James is 10 years old and he has a sister, Samantha, who is 8.
At the beginning of the
school year, both of the children were attending Boone
Elementary School. Both children
live with their aunt and uncle; their parents are in prison. In the
middle of the school year,
the aunt picked up the children one afternoon and told them that
they were going to move
that evening. They picked up their clothes and a few toys and
moved into a shelter. Th ey
didn’t know that this was a shelter for women and children who
were being abused. Th e

6. children were brokenhearted to leave their school. They had
good friends there; James was
head of the safety patrol and was the star of the choir and drama
club. Samantha played
with her best friend Carrie every day and all of her friends
called her the “teacher’s pet.”
Samantha says that she understands why she needs to go to
another school, but James is
angry that he has to transfer. Th e staff at the shelter tried to
work out transportation back
to the school but school officials told James and Samantha’s
aunt that the children could
not transfer back into the old district. James and Samantha are
referred to the school behavioral
specialist.
Alicia and Montford
About a year ago, Alicia and Montford, ages 6 and 7, moved
into the New Horizon homeless
shelter for families. They have been living there with their mom
and dad for the past six
months. Th e family may only stay at the shelter until the end of
the month. The assistant
principal at the local elementary school just called you to ask
for assistance. Both Alicia and
Montford are not performing very well in school and they are
constantly fighting with their
classmates and with their teachers. Neither of the children can
read at grade level. Both
have low math scores, and they have limited social skills. For
example, yesterday Montford
hit a kindergarten girl because she broke in line in front of him.
He told his teacher to “go
to hell” when she took him to the principal’s office. He never
completes his work and never
brings his homework to school. If the teacher sends a report

7. home for his mom and dad to
sign, he does not return the form.
Alicia tries to fade into the background at school, and she is
equally unresponsive. She
will not talk in class to her classmates or to her teacher. She
just sits in the classroom and
stares or puts her head on her desk. At recess she sits in the
corner by herself. If she is made
to play with the other children, she cries and runs off .
Because the state tests begin in the next month, the teacher and
the principal are concerned
about Alicia’s and Montford’s scores. Th e school has been on
probation because of
the regulations from the No Child Left Behind Act. Every score
is important to the school
administration. You, as the mental health services coordinator,
have been called to talk with
the parents about motivating these two children.