+1 862 207 3288 1. Watch the following 20/20 video on children in poverty: http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2832348&affil=watm (if the link doesn’t work look under resources on ANGEL)
Imagine you are a case manger working in Ivan’s school. You do not know anything about his home life. A teacher tells you that he seems distracted and unable to concentrate in the classroom. The teacher would like you to develop a plan to help keep Ivan on task.
If you remained unaware of what was happening in his life, what might your interventions look like?
How might they look different if you knew about Ivan’s home and community?
2. The Ecological Model considers the person in his/her context (sometimes called person-in-situation or person in-environment models). This thinking is based on the premise that individuals constantly interact with any number of systems within their environments. If we don’t consider all of those interactions as case managers/RHS providers, important information and constructive opportunities are lost.
3. The interaction never stops. Individuals make choices, but the environment prompts those choices. As an individual responds to the outcome of those choices, the environment adapts to that response.
4. While systems do change, they are often resistant to change. Sometimes when individuals attempt change, systems resist because doing things differently is difficult and systems naturally gravitate toward homeostasis.
5. Answer the following question about the three ecological levels:
a. Micro level –What did you notice about Ivan at the micro level?
b. Meso level –What parts of Ivan’s problems are at the meso level?
c. Macro level –. How does the macro level impact Ivan?
6. Dealing with complex and interrelated issues child such as Ivan experience on a daily basis requires multilayered interventions? How do you think the ecological model applies to your work as case managers?
Update on Ivan: http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=3843154&affil=watm
