Multidimensional Biopsychosocial Assessment

Multidimensional Biopsychosocial Assessment
Social Work Setting and Role I am employed as an on-going social worker by the MA Department of Children and Families (DCF). DCF is a child protection agency, which is responsible for protecting children from abuse and neglect and strengthening families. The Department has offices throughout the Commonwealth; I am located at the New Bedford area office. As an on-going social worker I am assigned families after a report of abuse or neglect has been reported, investigated and supported. It is the on-going social worker’s responsibility to provide professional child welfare social work services, through home visits, to the family. This is done by assessing the family’s strengths and needs, developing

Additionally, she has formal supports; in-home therapy, and DCF. Rosemary does not identify with a particular culture or religious practices, however she has her own set of beliefs that consists of self-reliance, putting her children’ s needs first and working hard, however this has not always been the case. The family became involved with the Department due to marijuana use during her pregnancy with James and subsequently, after six months of working with the Department, her children were removed due to multiple reports of abuse and neglect and a supported allegation of physical abuse of Jeremy by the youngest children’s father and domestic violence. Over the past year Rosemary has worked diligently to have her children returned to her care and custody. In that time she has left the abusive relationship, obtained employment, stable housing, and has engaged in parenting services and mental health services to increase parenting skills and address

Rosemary is a single, Mother who is involved with the Department of Children and Families. For Rosemary’s involvement with DCF, society will judge her as a “bad parent;” she will not be allowed to participate in her child’s classroom, get a job in the medical field or work with children without having a DCF background check, despite the efforts she has made to better her parenting skills. She will be judged for being a teen mother, for having five children and mostly for being poor; even with Rosemary’s white privilege and employment, she lacks power because she is a poor, single mother. Additionally, Jeremy lacks powers, as he is a