Team Consultation Case Scenario Examples

Team Consultation Case Scenario #1: CPS
The team meeting: Your job is to be supportive and reflective as you process the problem and help the worker establish a plan of action. You must reach a consensus about the plan. Follow the 5 steps.

A family has just moved into the state and the FBSS worker has been working with this family for 2 months. She has developed close ties with the children and mother. The father has remained aloof. The children have made an outcry of physical abuse, the mother admits she has a drug and alcohol problem and that she is financially dependent on the father. The children are to be removed for their safety. The mother is on a waitlist for the treatment program, and has a week to go and nowhere to stay. It seems
You must reach a consensus about the plan. Follow the 5 steps.

A single parent has been found to be unable to care for her child. The CPS worker, who is a single woman, must locate a relative who might be willing to take custody of this child. She locates the child’s uncle who has just moved to the city, and in the process of assessing the appropriateness of a placement with him, she finds herself quite attracted to him. A flirtatious dynamic develops between them. Based on the worker’s recommendations, the child’s placement with this man has been approved by the court. The child will be moving in with him next week. In the meantime, he has asked the worker out for dinner. It is clear to the worker that this is potentially the beginning of a romantic
The director of the day care center holds a responsible position in the church, and has taught the inspector in Sunday school classes in the past. During the first inspection, the inspector finds the child/staff ratio in non-compliance in the toddler room and asks the director about this. The director gives an explanation that in another setting would sound like a feasible excuse to her. On her next inspection at the center, she finds the same child/staff ratio problem.
Team Consultation Case Scenario #8: SWI
On the supervisor “Staffing” queue call: Your job is to be supportive and reflective as you process the problem and help the worker establish a plan of action. You must reach a consensus about the plan. Follow the 5 steps.

A SWI worker is going through a divorce and is fighting for full custody of his son. He receives a call from a mother who is divorced who wants to report that she believes her son’s father is using illicit drugs. The mother has not actually seen the father using drugs, but she “just knows” he is. The mother does not want her son to go to father’s house, but it this is the father’s weekend and is court