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LEARNING OJECTIVES
Identification of all the areas of an individual's life that are impacted by change
Variety of organisations involved in supporting people
How different organisations may support different aspects of need
Use of real examples to identify needs and sources of support available
SOURCES OF SUPPORT
To resolve the actions that each individual within the ICU team take in a variety of situations.
Using sources of support, resource list and case studies |
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TASK A
Invite speakers from the local branches of the organisations on resource list or other local organisations to talk to the students about their work.
Invite speakers who have experienced change in their lives.
Some suggestions might be:
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TASK B
Students select an organisation from the resource list to research further and then present to the whole group. |
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TASK C
Students categorise the organisations into the sort of support that they can offer by drawing up a table with the following headings: Physical Support (e.g. Medical, financial, practical help) Social Support (e.g. self-help groups, providing information and advice, putting people in touch) Emotional Support (e.g. counselling, referring) |
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Many organisations will appear under more than one heading. So this could be done as a whole group activity using three large posters, one labelled PHYSICAL SUPPORT, one labelled SOCIAL SUPPORT and one labelled EMOTIONAL SUPPORT. Students could write the names of organisations on post-it notes and stick them on what they think is the appropriate poster. |
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TASK D
Using the case studies, students work in groups to suggest the possible effects the described life events may have on the individuals using the following headings:
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Students then work in groups to identify what sources of support might be available to the people in the case studies. Students to identify what support the source could provide and how the people in the case study could access that support. Each group could then present their conclusions to the whole group. |
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EXTENSION WORK
Write a letter as though you were the individual in the case study to an 'Agony Aunt' saying what you are going through and how you feel and ask for some advice. Letters could be read out anonymously to the whole class then distributed to others to write an 'Agony Aunt' reply. These replies could then be read out to the class anonymously. |
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Life changes
CASE STUDY 1 - ANA Click here to download this resource material as a pdf file |
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Ana was 17 years old when she met Joe at a local nightclub. He was 10 years older than her and she found him very good looking and mature. He asked her out and before long they were meeting regularly. Ana's parents were very unhappy about the relationship as Joe was so much older than Ana and there started to be frequent rows at home. Ana's parents were keen for her to concentrate more on her schoolwork and to get good grades.
Joe soon persuaded Ana to sleep with him and Ana started lying to her parents about where she was and whom she was with. Joe drank a lot and often got quite drunk and encouraged Ana to do the same. She found it difficult to concentrate on her schoolwork and just wanted to be with Joe. After a few months, Joe told Ana that he was married and had a son of 15 months old, but that he no longer lived with his wife. Ana was shocked and upset by this news and broke up with Joe. Over the next few weeks, Ana realized that she was pregnant. |
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Life changes
CASE STUDY 2 LUDI Click here to download this resource material as a pdf file |
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Ludi was 3 when his baby brother was born. He could not understand why everybody seemed to be making such a fuss over this new baby and no one seemed to take much notice of him anymore. Mum didn't seem to be her usual self either. She was always crying and in her bedroom and whenever Ludi tried to go and see her, everybody shouted at him to leave Mum alone.
Not long after the baby was born, Granny came to stay and Granny definitely seemed to like the new baby more than she liked him. She was always holding the baby and talking to the baby. One day Granny told him that he needed to get smartly dressed because he was going to nursery school. Ludi did not want to go anywhere, he wanted to stay at home with Mum and for things to be like they were before the new baby arrived. Maybe Mum didn't like him any more. Ludi cried all morning at nursery school and the staff could not console him. When Granny came to collect him at lunchtime, he kicked and punched her. When he got home he was sent to his room for behaving so badly. |
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Life changes
CASE STUDY 3 - BARRY Click here to download this resource material as a pdf file |
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Barry had always worked in the family carpet business. His father owned a carpet shop and Barry learnt everything from him. Barry's main job was fitting carpets in people's homes while his father ran the shop.
Barry left school at 16 with a few GCSEs, but as he knew that he had a job waiting for him, he had not really bothered about school. His father had no qualifications at all, but was running a successful business and Barry assumed that he would be able to do the same. Business was good for many years and Barry earned enough money to buy a house with his wife Liz and to provide sufficient money to raise their 2 children comfortably. When Barry was 45, the carpet trade dried up. People were not buying the sort of products that his shop was selling. Before long Barry and his father were in debt. There was no income and Barry could no longer pay the mortgage on his house. Barry's wife Liz decided to get a full time job to help to pay the bills and Barry spent more and more time at home. Barry and Liz started to row about money and Liz thought that Barry ought to be doing more housework, now that he was at home and she was out at work. Barry began to feel really tired all the time and the more Liz nagged him the less he seemed able to do. One day he found that he just could not get out of bed at all. |
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Life changes
CASE STUDY 4 - MESHA Click here to download this resource material as a pdf file |
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Mesha ran a small convenience stores on her own since her husband died two years ago. Mesha was 76 years old and was starting to find it very tiring to keep the shop open the long hours required. Her children were all grown up and busy with their own lives. Mesha noticed that she was starting to get aches in her hips and knees and even worse, in her finger joints, which was making it difficult for her to open the till and give people their change.
One quiet Saturday evening two youths rushed into her shop with their faces covered with scarves and holding baseball bats. They screamed some racist insults at her and yelled at her to open the till. Mesha was so shocked that she could not speak or move. The youths threatened her again with the bats and she managed to get her shaking hands to the till to open it. They grabbed all the notes from inside, stuffed them into a carrier bag and ran out. Mesha stood in that same place, until a passerby came in and called the police. Mesha is now too frightened to go into the shop anymore. |
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Life changes
CASE STUDY 5 - SHANE Click here to download this resource material as a pdf file |
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Shane's father left his mother when he was 7. He does not remember his father very well because although his father did speak to him occasionally over the telephone for the first few years after he left, Shane has not heard from him now for about five years. Shane's mother believes that he has remarried and gone to live abroad.
Shane's mother never received any financial help from Shane's Dad so money was very short in the household. Shane rarely had new clothes or the latest equipment that many of the other children had. Shane had a very difficult adolescence suffering a great deal from acne. He also was very tall for his age and looked quite awkward and lanky. He did not make friends easily and sometimes, especially when he was younger, was made fun of and bullied at school. He got on well with his Mum as the two of them had been through some hard times together, although they did not talk much about their problems. One day Shane's Mum announced that she had met a man and that he was going to move in with them. When Shane met the man it was clear that he was an alcoholic and that his Mum was scared of him. After a few days Shane knew had could no longer live there and he packed a bag and moved out. He went first to the house of a school friend and slept on the floor for a few days, but knew he could stay there. |
