Family Participation Paper

For this assignment, you will consider the following scenario:

Thirty-three-month-old Carlos has been referred to you for assessment by the Public Health Nurse at the Health Department as being potentially developmentally delayed. His mother, Teresa, is a single mother of three children. She works the 11 pm to 7 am shift as an aide in a nursing home. Teresa and her children moved here a year ago from El Salvador. Teresa speaks some English, but Spanish is her first language.  The family lives with Teresa’s brother, his wife, and their two teenage sons.

Respond to this scenario in one paper that contains two sections:

 

1. Building Collaborative Relationships

 

• Explain how you would begin building a collaborative relationship between yourself and the family and conduct the assessment to ensure that the assessment is culturally competent.
• Consider cultural, ethnic, linguistic, and socioeconomic factors as well as other dimensions of family life and structure.
• Organize your answer by the three primary strategies for developing collaborative relationships during assessment:
  1. Pre-assessment planning
  2. Active participation by family members and other caregivers in assessment
  3. Mutual sharing of assessment results and planning for intervention

 

1. Reflection

We all have values, beliefs, and biases that we need to be aware of during the assessment process. How do you think your values, beliefs, and biases might affect Carlos’ assessment?