Case study of Jarrett family features in the film ,” Ordinary People
Succinctly present the case. In your narrative, consider the following prompts as a guide:
Who do you think, in your clinical opinion, would benefit from treatment? Explain your choice.
What are the circumstances that bring these particular clients into therapy?
How were these clients most likely referred to you? Make up the information if you need to.
What are the primary treatment concerns of this family? If you can think of any specific symptoms, add those here.
Drawing upon the course, which systemic treatment approach do you recommend (experiential, transgenerational, language-based)? Drawing upon what you
learned in the readings and the classroom, provide a rationale for said approach.
Consider the challenges that this family might present for you personally (as in self-of-the-therapist). Please describe one aspect of this case that might
require additional supervision in order for you to still do your best work.
If, in your clinical opinion, you had to make additional referrals for this family, who do you think would benefit from other types of treatment and why? What
kind of treatment?
Provide an in-depth narrative risk assessment. Be sure to consider family strengths/protective factors as well as risk factors when determining risk to self or
others.
Considering the systemic practice techniques we learned in class (collaborative games, like a marble run or Jenga with questions for each block removed;
genogram work; relational map exercise; Five Best Decisions; Tree of Life, letter-writing, scaling questions, timeline, bandwidth exercise), which one do you
think might be most appropriate to use for this family? Explain why it’s appropriate in this case and how this family would benefit.
Drawing upon what you learned in the readings and the classroom, explain how a relational/systemic treatment approach (couple or family) might lead to a
different outcome than an individual approach like the one portrayed in the film. Be sure to describe the outcome in each case (systemic vs. individual)
