Date: 6/29/15 SWI met with resident for individual session today. SWI met with client last week and was introduced as an intern at the program. Client is a 36-year-old, AA female living in the community. Client has a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia. Resident’s mood was neutral and affect was congruent with mood. Resident’s ADL’s were fair; presented well with clean clothes. SWI and resident explored past to current situations involving IR’s family along with describing her mental illness and how treatment stabilizes her. IR stated that before being treated for her mental illness she was having auditory hallucinations telling her to harm herself and her two younger children. At the current time, one of her sisters is granted custody of her two children. IR is permitted supervised visitation rights and saw her children last on January 01, 2015. IR loves her children and wishes she were able to be the mother they need. IR has goals of finding employment to help support them in any way that she can. Due to being undocumented, finding employment is not possible at this time. Insight is limited; speech is soft; concentration was poor; IR was restless and constantly was moving her hands or body during the session; thought processes are fair; judgment and impulse control appear fair. Worker gave IR an assignment to write down 10 goals to work towards in regards to learning something new. IR enjoys being educated but has difficulty concentrating. Next individual session is scheduled for 07/07/2015. The next steps are to continue to work weekly with IR and speak about her future and her children. I will also give her mini homework assignments to complete. Dialogue Identify skills or techniques Analysis or observation of client behavior Personal reactions and self-reflection to the interaction Good Morning IR, how are you doing today? Sustaining Resident’s mood was neutral and affect was congruent with mood. Ct: I am doing fine SWI: Do you remember me from last week? SWI was happy that client agreed to talk with her Ct: Yes, Ms. John right Client spoke softly, not looking directly at intern SWI: Yes, Mrs. St. John, but you can call me Ms. John Ct: ok SWI: Ms. IR can you tell me a little bit about yourself? Comment by Angela Gaddis: Great non threatening question Open-ended question to probe SWI was nervous but did not want client to know how much so I took a deep breath and looked at client, she wasn’t looking at SWI Ct: What do you want to know, I am here, I am taking my medication and doing fine, I would like to see my kids. Comment by Angela Gaddis: Did she seem defensive here? Sounds like she might have been. Just curious Client seems anxious, bit tense SWI: How many children do you have? Closed-ended Question IR was restless and constantly was moving her hands or body during the session Ct: I have 2 kids Client seems happy, she smiled SWI did not want to push but I needed to find out ho.

1. Date: 6/29/15
SWI met with resident for individual session today. SWI met
with client last week and was introduced as an intern at the
program. Client is a 36-year-old, AA female living in the
community. Client has a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia.
Resident’s mood was neutral and affect was congruent with
mood. Resident’s ADL’s were fair; presented well with clean
clothes. SWI and resident explored past to current situations
involving IR’s family along with describing her mental illness
and how treatment stabilizes her. IR stated that before being
treated for her mental illness she was having auditory
hallucinations telling her to harm herself and her two younger
children. At the current time, one of her sisters is granted
custody of her two children. IR is permitted supervised
visitation rights and saw her children last on January 01, 2015.
IR loves her children and wishes she were able to be the mother
they need. IR has goals of finding employment to help support
them in any way that she can. Due to being undocumented,
finding employment is not possible at this time. Insight is
limited; speech is soft; concentration was poor; IR was restless
and constantly was moving her hands or body during the
session; thought processes are fair; judgment and impulse
control appear fair. Worker gave IR an assignment to write
down 10 goals to work towards in regards to learning something
new. IR enjoys being educated but has difficulty concentrating.
Next individual session is scheduled for 07/07/2015.
The next steps are to continue to work weekly with IR and
speak about her future and her children. I will also give her
mini homework assignments to complete.
Dialogue
Identify skills or techniques

2. Analysis or observation of client behavior
Personal reactions and self-reflection to the interaction
Good Morning IR, how are you doing today?
Sustaining
Resident’s mood was neutral and affect was congruent with
mood.
Ct: I am doing fine
SWI: Do you remember me from last week?
SWI was happy that client agreed to talk with her
Ct: Yes, Ms. John right
Client spoke softly, not looking directly at intern
SWI: Yes, Mrs. St. John, but you can call me Ms. John
Ct: ok

3. SWI: Ms. IR can you tell me a little bit about yourself?
Comment by Angela Gaddis: Great non threatening
question
Open-ended question to probe
SWI was nervous but did not want client to know how much so I
took a deep breath and looked at client, she wasn’t looking at
SWI
Ct: What do you want to know, I am here, I am taking my
medication and doing fine, I would like to see my kids.
Comment by Angela Gaddis: Did she seem defensive here?
Sounds like she might have been. Just curious
Client seems anxious, bit tense
SWI: How many children do you have?
Closed-ended Question
IR was restless and constantly was moving her hands or body
during the session
Ct: I have 2 kids
Client seems happy, she smiled
SWI did not want to push but I needed to find out how client
feel about her kids
SWI: Where are your Children now?
Reaching for feelings

4. Ct: They are with my sister
Client seems indifferent, she did not seem sad or happy, like she
was having second thought about answering the question
SWI wanted client to know that she can trust me but I also did
not want to push client too much. I wanted her to let me in when
she feels comfortable
SWI: Do you get to see them?
Probing Comment by Angela Gaddis: Another good non-
threatening questions
Ct: I saw them about 6 months ago; my sister said that she does
not want to confuse them because of my illness she feels that I
might do something to them so she is always watching me.
Actively listening, nodding
Client liked sad, like she was in pain
I empathize with IR because she was sick and without help
when the occurrence with her children occurred.
SWI: How does that make you feel, not having your children
around?
Empathizing with client feeling
I feel bad that she cannot have more visitation rights but that is
only for the best for her children at this time.
Ct: I can’t take care of them because I am undocumented, how
can I work and take care of them, you tell me
Client seems upset, because she was fidgeting.
This is very frustrating for intern.
Client cannot legally work without proper documentation, how

5. can I help her.
SWI: Ms. you seem upset, would you like to take a break?
Comment by Angela Gaddis: Good job with offering her a
break Comment by Angela Gaddis: I would suggest
allowing her to be express her emotions and you can simply be
silent therapeutically. You can then interpret her emotions by
stating “I can see that this is hard for you and that is
understandable…” continue with interview.
Validating client feelings
Client looked down at the floor before replying, she looked up
with tears in her eyes.
I did not know how to console my client, I empathized with her
but I feel as if I was not prepared for her emotions.
Ct: Ok Ms. John
SWI: Thank you for meeting with me today would you like to
meet again next week, same time?
Client was shaking back and forth but she was not upset, she
just seems sad
SWI needed to gather herself so decided to start again next
week.
Ct: Sure, Ok
SWI felt good about the session but does not know hoe client
feels about talking about her life with an intern.
As IR continues to help herself psychiatrically at Kingsboro, in
time if she continues to do the right things, she may be granted
with her wish of having more time with her children maybe
unsupervised. That is a goal but will not happen anytime soon.
Family Reunification can also be applied to this case.

6. Being undocumented in this country inhibits her from being a
part of the workforce. This must be frustrating for her.
Conflict theory may be applied, because it represents how
power structures & power disparities impact people’s lives.
IR seems to have much strength but is not able to use them in
the workforce due to being undocumented.I feel bad that she
cannot have more visitation rights but that is only for the best
for her children at this time. By emotionally tuning-in to my
reactions makes me only want to find better ways of finding
activities for IR. I want her to be able to one day tell me
something she is proud of. But I know that it is her treatment
and I have to work on her timeline, meeting client where she is
presently. By giving IR weekly assignments I give her to do
during the week enables her to think about the responses on how
to better help herself. By speaking with her, this grants her
with someone she may confide in and just let everything out.
Since IR is undocumented in America, she does not have many
options in this country. She cannot legally work without proper
documentation. And finding her volunteer work is quite
difficult. IR is oppressed with trying to give back. This is very
frustrating for intern. I empathize with client, not having much
family support.
Running head: BREACHING EXPERIMENTS 1
BREACHING EXPERIMENTS 3
BREACHING EXPERIMENTS

7. Name
Institutional Affiliation
Breaching Experiments
A breaching experiment is meant to observe and examine
people’s reaction to behavior that is considered against the
social norm. Developed by Harold Garfinkel, the experiments
are mostly used for sociology and psychology purposes and the
idea is to study accompanying reactions. There exist countless
social rules that are unstated. We are not told how to behave at
times but it is clear that there are things we are not supposed to
do since they are violations of the social rules.
The common assumption on an encounter with a person talking
to himself or herself is that he or she is mentally ill or
depressed. Eager to see people’s reaction, I started my
experiment in school. Walking across the hall, I went about
talking to myself. Other students looked at me and moved aside
paving the way for me.
Next, I met my classmate and friend. Looking at me, he asked
me whether I had gone crazy. Without answering him, I walked
on. He followed me and asked me whether I had been dumped.
Definitely, that is the first thing that my peers would conclude.
They seem to associate my condition to the way most people
behave when they are out of a relationship.
Moving on, I met the school guard who is used to our daily
chat. Stopping me, I acted as if he was non-existent as I
mumbled words to myself. This seemed fun until he called his
colleague and I had to run to avoid breaking my breach
experiment. I had aroused suspicions in him as I took a lonely
path towards home to avoid confrontation.

8. A group of young girls were moving around homes selling
home-made cookies. Having spotted me, they came along trying
to urge me to buy their cookies. Completely ignoring them, I
pushed one of them aside and continued talking to myself. If I
am not mistaken, I heard one of them call me a ‘mad retard’ but
that was not my concern at the moment.
I was almost knocked over by a group of boys skating along the
path. I pretended not to be bothered and I heard calls for ‘watch
out you freak’. All this time, I was beginning to worry that the
police could be called anytime to pick up a ‘psychiatric
fugitive’ as I had heard the skaters refer to me.
On arrival home, my cousin came to meet me. I brushed her off
as I looked at her as if she was a stranger. I knocked my head as
if trying to remember something. She was astonished as she
called out to my uncle. I ran to my room, locked myself and
started talking to myself loudly. My cousin and uncle knocked
on my door and threatened to break it if I did not open it.
Satisfied with the results of my experiment, I prepared myself
to face the consequences of my ‘act’.
In conclusion, social gatherings have a role in the organization
of social life. Everyone in any social setting has some concerns
on how he or she is expected to behave. This makes up the
social rules. It is also a fact that people behave differently and
come to different conclusions when they encounter a person
going against the social expectations.
Running head: # BREACHING EXPERIMENT 1
#3 BREACHING EXPERIMENT 4
Breaching experiment

9. In essence, the functionalist perspective theory, the conflict
perspective theory, and the interactionism theory provide
sociologists with different scales of measurements that assist
them in explaining how a particular society function (Chafetz,
2008). In addition, these theories offer a variety of perspectives
regarding human behavior and the general social world.
Most people find themselves violating the informal social norms
because no serious steps can be taken against them while others
are just ignorant. According to the functionalist theory, society
is only functional when all members observe the social norms
that abide them together. According to social structural-
functionalism both social integration and social regulation are
essential in the society. Social integration refers to the sense of
attachment to institutions and groups while social regulation
refers to adherence to various set values and norms in the
society. Proponents of the Structural-functionalism perspective
in regard to informal deviance assert that people who are highly
self- regulated are categorized as “fatalists” while those that are
extremely unregulated are “anomalies.” All kinds of informal
deviance fall under these two categories. While informal
deviance varies from one culture to another, its definition still
stands to be; violations of various informal social norms that
have been codified into law (Chafetz, 2008). One informal
deviance behavior that is evident in almost all forms of
interactions, whether between two friends, lovers, siblings,
between leaders and subordinates or in a family is that a good
percentage is manipulative. Manipulative people in the society

10. tend to be egocentric, highly competitive, cunning, obnoxiously
aggressive, and anxious and may lack the capability to show
empathy (Bandura, A., & Walters, 2004). However, it is
substantial to note that the manipulation may vary depending on
the Fatalism-anomies scale of measurement. Under stressing
conditions, manipulative anomies may become psychopaths
while conducive environments such as a loving and an
understanding family may reduce the chances of destructive
manipulation. However, people who are obnoxiously
manipulative may be so due to genes in the family, and this can
be highly dangerous as it could lead to formal deviance
(Bandura, & Walters, 2004). The level of pathological
expression of manipulation depends on an individual’s social
upbringing and social environment which can be summarized as
nurture. It is advisable to get brain scans when one is
excessively aggressive or manipulative as well as probe your
family’s history since more information about the source of
such behavior may help prevent other deviant behaviors.
To conclude this discussion, it is important to emphasize that
although no serious steps can be taken against a person who
defies the informal social norms, some actions are very
embarrassing or hurtful to friends and family. A person who is
manipulative may not listen to another person’s point of view.
This can lead to disagreements, hatred or serious offences such
as domestic violence.
References
Bandura, A., & Walters, R. H. (2004). Social learning and

11. personality development (Vol. 14). New York: Holt, Rinehart
and Winston.
Chafetz, J. S. (2008). A primer on the construction and testing
of theories in sociology. Wadsworth.