The Interventions The first part of my intervention with Ms. Carter was to increase the amount of times that I visited her home a month. I decided to do this so that I could add to the rapport that Ms. Carter and I had already established, as well as, maintain the rapport that we had previously built. Furthermore, by increasing my presence in the home each month, I created time to implement certain attachment based interventions with Ms. Carter. In addition, it was my hope that through increasing my presence in the home I would be able to use our client-worker relationship to establish a secure base from which Ms. Carter could feel safe to explore the difficulties that came along with parenting eight children and coping with her sister being incarcerated without fear that I would only respond to her in her most agonizing moments. The second part of the intervention was the specific interventions that I implemented with Ms. Carter during our extended visitation times. When I first started the extended visitations with Ms. Carter, I had the perception that we had a decent working relationship. However, I wanted to be sure that our relationship was secure enough that it could withstand any other interventions I chose to do in the future that explored her …show more content…
Carter. As mentioned previously, Ms. Carter was already very open to letting me into her home and I wanted to use the time to build a secure relationship that she could use to mirror other relationships, such as the relationships with the children and other individuals outside of our therapeutic environment. Therefore, requesting to enter Ms. Carter’s home more than lawfully required did not come across as in insult to her. However, a possible weakness of this intervention strategy could have been that Ms. Carter could have perceived my increased presence as a sign of intrusion or me micromanaging her