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The movie Fences and Four Stages of Interventionzabq.in/the-movie-fences-and-four-stages-of-intervention

Introduction

The movie Fences talks about the struggle of a family to gain the basic rights and

necessary means of survival, whereas dealing will miserable conditions of their lives, just

because of their race. In this regard, it would not be wrong to say that the movie Fences

revolves around different stages of life of a family who actually needs intervention

approaches as a way to deal with their issues of life and to offer them the intervention

approaches as a way to change their settings of life as well as to offer an overall

assessment leading towards a en effective social work approach useful to resolve the issue

of the characters or clients, as shown within the movie.

However, before linking the four stages of intervention involving engagement,

assessment, intervention, and evaluation with different aspects of the movie, it would be

fine to know little about the overall story of the movie Fences. In this regard, the movie

talks about the suppressed life of a man named Troy Maxson, as main character of the

movie. Maxson remained in prison in his past, but now he is working like trash collector

with his friend named Bono with whom Maxson met in time of his imprisonment. The

most overwhelming tension within the life of Maxson and his family revolves around the

highest level of racial discrimination both within his personal and professional spheres of

life as well.

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Maxson always wanted to be a baseball player, but extreme level of racial discrimination

has had suppressed Maxson for which he lived a very bad life, as he losses all of his family

members one by one, just because he failed by the racial system of the society in which he

lived. Cory, son of Troy and Rose, hired through a college for a football team. There is a

hedge between Cory and his father Troy, especially when Cory tells Troy that he has left

his job of grocery store within the session of football. However, Troy rejects Cory and

demanded Cory to get back his job, but Cory wanted to play football in front of a coach

coming from North Carolina to Pittsburg to observe Cory. Cory and Troy never met at a

point and always refused each other due to which Troy physically harms Cory one day and

he left the house. Later, Troy dies due to heart attack and Cory returned and attended the

funeral of his father, but it was too late for Cory to have his father which he felt at the

moment and, at the end of the story of the movie.

Engagement

The first stage of intervention linked with the life-based aspects of the client, family unit,

who suffered highest level of racial discrimination as well as emotional isolation collapse

of family structure. So, with the intention to engage with the client, family unit, as a way

to support it and encourage it to change it’s over familial conduct as well as act according

to the standards of society so that the family can live a desired life is to interact with

client, family unit, at first to have a verbal and physical interaction with all family

members.

In this regard, after engaging with a client like the family unit, in a real or physical

meeting with it, it would be fine to know that the intelligence is one of the most significant

cultural aspects of the client (family unit), as all black members of the family unit of the

movie are intelligent than whites. So, through the use of the cultural aspect of intelligence,

I would like to engage the client while using the idea of intelligence as a way to show the

client that he has something that all people need in their life and that is intelligence over

which the whole family unit can be an active member of the society and over which it can

establish it’s unique familial personality, within the social sphere of its’ life.

For instance, within the movie, one of the clients, Maxson, tried his level best to gain the

position of garbage truck driver and, doing so, he actually did it just because of his

intelligence and the way of dealing with people in a confident manner. The promotion of

the client from a trash collector to a garbage truck driver, as displayed within the movie,

shows the intelligence of the client over which it would be easier to engage the client

within the process of intervention.

In addition, I would like to engage the client with the intention to encourage his

participation in determining treatment goals and planning through a direct meeting with

the client within any social location, especially public location so that I can show the client

about his value as one of the active member of the society and the fact that he can be a

part of any social activity among others, whereas avoiding the issue of racism.

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Within the process of treatment, I have identified that my client has two major strengths

one is confidence and one is intelligence. In this regard, I would like to use the confidence

strength of my client as a way to involve him with other people other than his race so that

the client can interact with others in a confident manner. Secondly, I would like to use the

intelligence strength of my client whereas offering my client a real life situation over

which my client will use his intelligence as a way to resolve the issue.

Moreover, I will use the historical context existed in times of racism, especially when

Martin Luther King Jr. has used his ethical and humanity-based approaches as well as his

non-violence conduct against white supremacy as a way to win the fight against racism.

In this regard, I would like to show my client facts and figures of the historical efforts

done by King at that time, over which King successfully attained the position to speak not

only for the community, but humanity as a whole.

Finally, I would like to manage my personality as a neutral human being so that I can

encourage and show my client about the value of his race, especially his presence among

others as a unique human personality. In this regard, I would like to have meetings with

my client in which I will also offer him dinner or lunch as well as I would like to go with

him at various public places so that I can show to my client my honest involvement in all

of the activities over which I would like to show that my client has a unique culture and

that his race is importance and has a social value among others as well.

Assessment

At the second stage of the intervention, I would like to make a bio-psychosocial spiritual

model as a way to assess different aspects of the life of my client, family unit, as portrayed

within the movie Fences.

Biological Aspects of Client:

After watching the movie, it become clearer that the client, family unit, has some

biological requirements over which the family overall needs medical care, permanent

shelter for the family, proper food, and clothing. In realities, from the display of the client,

family unit, within the movie, it becomes visible that the client is facing highest level of

racism due to which it is even unable to move from lower level of survival means towards

better ones so that it could gain significant level of financial and biological support to

fulfill its biological needs, linked with the needs of all family members as well.

Psychological Aspects of Client:

Over the psychological aspects of the client, family unit, it would not be wrong to say that

the client is mentally not ill entity, but have a suppressed personal identity, as a family,

because of the racial discrimination that the client encountered with, as shown within the

movie. In addition, through the analysis of the movie, it also becomes visible that the

client, as family unit, has a self-concept revolving around its ability to support each family

members and, therefore, client is overall fit and healthy over his psychological conditions

of life, but disturbed emotionally, as a whole.

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Socio-Cultural Aspects of Client:

Over the social and cultural environments of the client, it would not be wrong to say that

the client is from race and the social environment in which the client has lived its life, as

also shown within the display of the movie, are suppressing for the family unit and for its

familial growth as well. For instance, if I ask my client about its social life, then no doubt

the family unit will say that it has had a miserable social life, because people always

discriminated the personality of the family, as a whole, because of the Black race of the

family and that it remained limited to participate in different social institutions. For

instance, the movie clearly shows that the client, Maxson, failed to become a baseball

player, and his son also faced challenges by Maxson as they both realized each other as

enemy of understanding, because they both were always rejected and discriminated

against his race, overwhelming to their social and personal spheres of life as well.

While, on the other hand, the client is also culturally suppressed, not because of the issue

of discrimination, but because of the cultural values linked within the personalities of

people of the time. For instance, the movie shows that the client, the family unit lived at

the time when people were more likely to work at low level, especially Black race people

whereas avoiding about their personal abilities and skills to involve within the struggle of

life. In a broader sense, it was Martin Luther King who showed people about their value

and the importance of being part of the social community, as many s were limited to

participate within the field of education at the time when the movie has directed.

Spiritual Aspects of the Client:

Finally, over the spiritual aspects of the client, it would not be wrong to say that the client,

as a family unit, has no spiritual aspect in its life over which the client never followed any

religion and have never realized about its personal value within the spiritual domain of its

life. For instance, the movie clearly shows that the client, Maxson, as portrayed in the

movie, failed to keep up with his family members, especially with his son who also wanted

to become a baseball player, but Maxson never supported his son, not because of the issue

of racial discrimination, but because of the fact that Maxson never established a spiritual

belief in any religion due to which he always fear from the issue of being discriminated by

others, even over the life of his son.

Over the above mentioned bio-psychosocial spiritual assessment of the client, family unit,

as a whole, it would not be wrong to say that there are different aspects of the life of the

client. In this regard, I would like to use the above assessment of the client as a way to

improve the life conditions and personality of the client as well. For instance, I would like

to use the spiritual aspects of the life of the client with the intention to bring an

intervention within the religious life of the client as a way to teach the family unit, client,

value of a religion and holding firm beliefs in a certain religions like Christianity.

Intervention

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First technique that I would like to use as a way to initiate my intervention process to

resolve the issues of family unit, as a whole, as mentioned within the above assessment, is

the religious training through seminars and interaction with different religious persons.

As the client is non-Muslim and that many people of its race are Christians so I would like

to visit some religious places of Christians with the client so that the client develop the

religious sense among all members of the family as my client, at first.

Then, I would like to take my client to some particular Christian seminars so that the

client would have a religious understanding about the Christian religion. In reality,

religion-supported intervention is one of the most effective and useful techniques to

develop the personal life of a person and groups of persons, especially when it comes

about to offer a religiously poor person about the importance of having a religion in life

(Sanchez, 2008). Therefore, I would like to use the technique of religion-based knowledge

transfer to my client so that the family unit can understand the importance of a religion

and the value of having a true religious belief in life. For doing so, I would like to use

Social Cognitive Theory, as a way to offer the family unit a chance to relate their mind-

based knowledge within its social sphere, whereas interacting with others, as their outside

media impact. Through the use of Social Cognitive Theory, I would like to use each family

member so that they can related their knowledge individually to find out the true nature

of the world, while interacting with others in their social spheres, at individual manner to

have some influence of outside media of society.

In addition, I would like to use religious professional to collaborate treatment over which

I will ask religious professionals to offer some religious knowledge to my client so that it

can have a true understand as well as approach to adopt different religious beliefs in its

familial life, as the movie clearly shows that all persons of the family unit lack religious

beliefs and, thus, failed to make his successful out of the overwhelming issue of racism.

Furthermore, I will use the ethical code of Christian religion over which I will deliver code

of ethics linked with various ethical interpretation of Christian religion as a way to deliver

some facts about the true nature of Christian religion towards my client. In reality,

through the use of code of ethics about religion I would like to offer my client a way to use

personality as a way to learn about the ethics of living a religious life, as a way to show

different religion-based ethical personalities, as a family unit, among others.

For instance, throughout the display of the movie, the client, family unit, appeared

involving in different matters of life such as survival, family, professionalism etc. For

these reasons, code of ethics linked with religious knowledge and interaction with

religious professional is necessary for my client, as a way promote its personality as

religiously-supported over which my client will be able to have clear visions of its ill-

conditions of its life which it failed to gain, as shown within the movie (Dobrin, 2002).

Finally, within the process of intervention, I would like to use my personal self as a way to

teach my client, family unit, some true religious values, linked with the Christian religion.

In this regard, I would like to be an educator to my client so that I can intervene with all

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members of the family both literarily and practically as a way to show him the importance

of having a true religion in life over which a person can establish true religious beliefs,

necessary to overcome the stressful and overwhelming conditions of life.

Evaluation

I would like to evaluate my work with client through the use of single-subject design over

which I will use my client, family unit, as main subject as a way to change the behavioral

aspects of my client. Within the design, I would like to engage all members of the family

so that they can encounter with some real facts and figures, linked with the religion of

Christian. In this regard, my plan to evaluate outcomes of my client that is family unit, as

displayed within the movie, is to offer my client a time and place to interact with other

religious scholar so that they all can have a time of talk about Christian religion as a way

to measure the level of understanding of my client.

In addition, I would like to recommend some special things that could contribute to the

knowledge-base on best practices as follows;

Exploring spiritual values

Understanding spirituality and religion in deep

Exercising like yoga

Travelling to religious places

Always try to be optimistic

Take mediation in free time

Social gathering based on religious practices

Through the use of above mentioned knowledge-based practices my client will be able to

develop his spiritual personality, as degrading within the display of the movie.

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References

Dobrin, A. (2002). Religious Ethics A Sourcebook. Arthur Dobrin.

Sanchez, Z. V. (2008). Religious intervention and recovery from drug addiction. Revista

de saude publica, 42(2), 265-272.

Washington, D. (Director). (2016). Fences [Motion Picture].