Please watch the movie about Gilbert Grape and answer the questions. Thank you

SOWK 317 Social Work Methods: Children and Families

What’s Eating Gilbert Grape

Worksheet 7: Application Assessment & Implementation; Legal/Ethical Issues

Name ____________________________________ Date ________________________

Part I: Assessment

After viewing tonight’s video clip of the Grape family get into your group to answer the following questions. Limit discussion to 10-15 minutes and then move on to Part II.

As you watch these clips from the Grape video, think about child abuse.

Do you see any abuse?

2. If YES:

Who is being abused?

What kind of abuse do you suspect?

Which family members are at the highest risk of abusing Arnie? Why are they more vulnerable?

Do you think that it needs to be reported? Why or why not? What are the ethical and legal issues involved?

Consider the concept of family preservation. What is family preservation? Can this family be preserved? If so, does Arnie need to be removed from the family? What are the pros and cons of this?

What additional services might be needed if preservation is going to be successful?

If NO:

How would you proceed with this family?

Part II: Intervention Role-play

Choose a person to be the social worker who has not played this role previously. Divide the roles of Mom, Gilbert, Amy, Arnie and Ellen among the rest of the group so that, if possible, everyone is playing a new role. If you have an extra person in your group, she/he will help the group process the role-play AND can step in to assist the social worker if the social worker asks for help. Limit your role-play to about 15 minutes and then move to Part III.

This family is in crisis as the situation with Arnie is escalating. Family members are getting increasingly frustrated with him. The focus on today’s family meeting with the social worker is to develop a plan and intervention so that Arnie is safe. The social worker will explore with the family ways to keep Arnie safe. Perhaps this was one of the goals and objectives that you developed last week in the planning. If so, you can work on discussing and implementing that plan. You may also explore additional plans (interventions) to keep Arnie safe.

Identify at least 3 interventions to keep Arnie safe. Consider possible micro, mezzo and macro levels. Who will do what by when and/or how much? Remember, all plans and the resulting interventions need to be measureable.

Keep this worksheet as you will use these interventions in the future for evaluation purposes.