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Working with Multi-Stress Families

Best Practices for Counsellor-FSC Collaborations

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No breakfast

Walk five bus stops’

distance to

school

Late for school

Smokerlyser Ambush

Food coupons during

recess

Cannot understand

what teacher is saying

Sleepy – not

enough energy

Held back fordetention

Have to pick up

younger sister and

get her lunch

Working part-time at

fast-food restaurant

Comes back late – sleeps late

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Hear

Me

Out!

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on c ren :The life of a child as it is mean to be…

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IMPACT on children :The life of a child when family multi stressors set in … 

Complex trauma

• “A potentially traumatising event is any event that overwhelmschild’s/youth’s capacity to cope. This can be a one-off event or ongoingin nature” (Nijenhusi, 2005)

• involving a sense of intense fear, terror or helplessness” (Perry 2002)

“Daddy got arrested

at home..we were all

sleeping and got

woken up by police”

My teacher was angry that I

didn’t go to school butmummy couldn’t wake up

because she works at night” 

I stood by the washingmachine and shivered as

I saw my parents hitting 

each other in the toilet. 

My legs wouldn’t move. 

I want to punch

something.

If I wasn’t born,

maybe they don’t

have to worry about

money so much.

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FamilyServiceCentres

Casework &Counselling

Information& Referral

CommunitySupport

Programme

Outreach

Services offered by AMKFSC

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Services offered by Youth Infinity

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Developed with AWWA FSC CC &C and

programme staff as part of the MSWprogramme –Yoges (Feb 2013)

Systems theory

Family Systems theoryFamily Systems theory

Ex Circular

Relational

patterns

Boundaries Subsystems Written & un

written rules

Theoretical lenses that guide FSC work in working with the whole family

Genogram

Bowen

Approaches for

intervention

+ SFBT

+Narrative

+systemic

approach

+Attachment

based

interventions

+ EMFT

+Choice theory

+expressive

therapies+Satir

+advocacy

theories

+AI

+Intra personal

theories

Empowerment theoryAdvancement Social political Participation/commitment

S –spiritual

P-Physical

I-IntellectE-Emotional

S-social

Maslowhierarchy

of needs

Strengths

theory

Attachment

theory

TraumaTheories

Child dev

theories

Crisis

theory

Vertical &

horizontal

stressors

(Carter & Mc

Goldrick)

Stages of 

change

Grief &

loss

theory

Symbolic

interactionism

Talcott parsons Personal pbm public issues

Transition

theories

Life span

theory

Conflict

theory

Brofen

brenn

erRink’s 

Family

Function-

ing

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 1) Case conferencing

Planned agenda & clarity of purpose

2) Shared Assessment and Professional DialogueMindful of professional ethics

3) Strength in DiversityDifferent relationship linesWork towards common goal

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 4) Strategic buy-in

Hurdle crossingInternal and external advocacy

5) 2 is better than 1, 3 is better than 2Anchor points -bring a colleague

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Success Stories with School Counsellors

Success Stories with

School Counsellors