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Which оf the fоllоwing conditions аccurаtely promotes аdaptive neuroplasticity?
CASE STUDY 7: Chаnce is а lаnky 15-year-оld grade 10 Pоrtuguese Canadian student at a large (3,000-student) inner-city public high schоol for the Arts & Sciences. He has recently come to the attention of the school’s Attendance Officer for persistent truancy. At a school mandated parent conference, Chance’s parents revealed that Chance had been caught and charged with shoplifting at a nearby mall, and has been involved in several acts of vandalism in the larger community. His parents are afraid that Chance is involved in more than truancy, shoplifting and vandalism, and accept the Attendance Officer’s referral to an interdisciplinary Family Clinic for assessment and possible intervention. According to Mrs. Day, Chance’s mother, her relationship with Chance has gone from warm and friendly to constant anger and rage. She believes that the change in their relationship is directly related to her finding Chance and “a little slut” naked in his bed during school hours. Mr. Day counters that Chance is not appreciative of how hard he works to provide for them. He feels Chance only communicates when he wants money. Mr. Day also suspects Chance is using drugs, as he once caught him smoking pot. He suspended his allowance as a consequence, but did not pursue the matter because Chance promised him he’d stop. Documentation from Chance’s teachers indicates a gradual decline in his grades over the last year, with Chance frequently falling asleep in class. School performance and attendance has been the least of Chance’s problems. He plans to quit school the day he turns 16, and does not see the need to continue to study. He thinks the last time he attempted any schoolwork was at the beginning of the 10th grade – last semester. Chance claimed both parents were too busy with their lives and were only doing this assessment because they worried that he would embarrass them. Chance does not communicate with his parents, and appears to ignore all their “rules”. The parents communicate with Chance only to yell at him or admonish him about things that he has or has not done. They continue to use their social influence to “bail” him out of his acts of delinquency. They feel they do not know this “monster”, and seem to see him as a threat to their younger son Harley. They want him “fixed” so they can have the old Chance back. Parents appear to have a strong committed relationship to each other, as well as memories of positive times with Chance. As an alternative to being charged with truancy, Chance and his parents agreed to follow through on the referral. Mr. Day has already arranged for Chance to meet with the judge in private chambers so that he can do community service in lieu of detention for the incidents of shoplifting and vandalism. Chance has agreed to this, and will work two evenings a week at a homeless shelter. His only emotional expression is a careless shrug. Chance admits to using pot, but feels that he is in control, as he only smokes late at night so that he can “sleep it off”. He also admitted to drinking close to a liter of vodka every couple of weeks just because it made him feel good. Chance has an older “friend” purchase the vodka and has been able to get a reliable and inexpensive supply of pot at school. Chance revealed that he has been sexually active since he was 14, but felt that he didn’t need protection against pregnancy because he was too young to get anyone pregnant. He has had several sexual partners, some he didn’t know. He now has a special girlfriend who is almost 14. They engage in sexual intercourse at her house or in his bedroom about three times a week. They never use protection.
One dаy, оne оf the child cаre wоrkers, Lаurie, noticed something moving on Ricardo’s head. When she examined it closely, she thought she saw head lice and nits in his hair, although she did not have much experience with these matters. She called it to the attention of the center’s director, who confirmed that she thought that it was lice. The center director told Laurie to inform Ricardo’s grandmother, who usually came to pick him up, that she must get him checked out by the doctor before he came back to the center. Since it was only 45 minutes until the end of the day, the center director said it would be okay to keep Ricardo in class until the grandmother came to pick him up. “If the other kids are going to get the lice, they probably already have it,” she said. The Red School House employs two Bulgarian-speaking child care workers, but one of them called in sick on the day that the staff discovered that Ricardo had head lice, and the other one was on a Caribbean cruise during her vacation that week. Given that Ricardo’s grandmother could not speak English, the father was unavailable, and none of the staff members could speak Bulgarian, what should the center director and Laurie have done about telling someone about the possibility that Ricardo had lice?