In the textbook Collaborative Therapy with Multi-Stressed Families, read:
Chapter 7, “Helping Clients Shift their Relationship to Problems and Develop Preferred Lives”
Chapter 8, “Developing Communities to Support New Lives”

Watch 30 minutes of the video “Family Therapy: Universal and Unique Approaches to Solving Problems”, starting at 15:00 minutes and ending at 45:00 minutes.

After completing the readings and watching the video, navigate to the threaded discussion and answer the following questions:

How did the social worker integrate the importance of diversity and difference into her practice of designing an intervention with this multi-stressed family?

How can the social worker continue to advance the family’s human rights (concerning gay families and foreign adoptees) in the intervention stage?

How did the social worker use empathy and interpersonal skills within the collaborative/relational model to design an intervention with this diverse family?

What social work theories did social worker use during the intervention process?

How does applying these theories address the complexities and most important aspects of the problem?

How well do the applied theories take feasibility, trade-offs, and options into account?

Which family therapeutic modality, model or therapeutic intervention do you think would be the most effective or appropriate with this particular family, and why?

What are your own biases on the issue?

How do your own experiences and preferences lead you toward or away from the different approaches or solutions?

What would be your priorities in determining the quality of various approaches or solutions?

In your opinion, which issues or interests are more important and less important in solving the problem, and why?