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Applying Peer and Family Interventions - Classmate Responses

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First reply post

Hello peer, I agree with you that Family involvement is the most powerful and

successful strategy available. Working with the whole family is the most effective strategy

for children who are engaged in high-risk activities such as drug abuse, misbehavior,

dropping out of high school, or adolescent pregnancy. I concur Earlier, group therapy had

failed to work for their family because Jimmy refused to go; however, though having all

family members there is essential and necessary, and Jimmy may be readily persuaded to

attend if the pain he feels in regard to his mother is effective. Lastly I agree According to the

authors, "Problems are regarded as the product of complex dynamics that characterize every

matrilineal society, rather than as the results of specific issues." (Mcwhirte, 2017).

References

Mcwhirter, R. (2017). At risk youth. Cengage Learning, Inc. 

Second reply

Hello peer I agree with your suggestion. It is true With Jimmy's help, a family

intervention is needed to identify and treat the core reasons of family dysfunction, which has

clearly harmed Jimmy at some point in his life. I concur Peer intervention, which is second

only to Jimmy's peer support in significance.Critics have likened Jimmy's risky conduct to

that of a little child pleading for aid or attention during the last four years (McWhirter et al.,

2012). "Influenced by their elder siblings, parents, and other peers, young people and

adolescents are more prone to engage in drug use than those who are not (McWhirter et al.,

2012). Lastly I gree the most important and direct indicators of adolescent drug use are the
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use of drugs by peers and the absence of parental monitoring "as stated earlier in the text. As

a result, the involvement of the whole family is vital. The therapist will be more equipped to

deal with the family as a group if he or she had one-on-one sessions with each member.

References

  McWhirter, J. J., McWhirter, B. T., McWhirter, E. H. & McWhirter, R. J. (2012). At Risk

Youth (5th ed.).