Handout: Three Hungry Children Refer participants to the handout. Activity: Three Hungry Children Lead the participants through the following guided imagery to demonstrate how behaviors (even unacceptable behaviors) are an attempt to get needs met. the guided imagery: Imagine you are the head of a household with three children, ages 9, 6, and 2. You have been unemployed and looking for work for the past 12 months. Three weeks ago, you received your last unemployment check. You are out of cash and have no food in the house for yourself or your three children. You have exhausted all of your resources. None of your friends or family has any money to loan to you, or food to give you. You applied for public assistance and food stamps, and your caseworker said you should receive your first check in 5-7 days. Your children have not eaten since 4:00 p.m. yesterday and have been telling you how hungry they are. You haven’t eaten since the day before that. You are worried, tired, and hungry. Ask participants to write down all the possible courses they could take to get food on the Three Hungry Children handout, under the question, would I do?” Instruct them not to censor “What their responses. To help participants get into the scenario, you may start by volunteering, “You know what I would do?” and then saying something on the extreme side, like would be “I dancing at the strip club.” Or say, know what my aunt would do? She would be out there “You with a baseball bat to get someone to give her money.” Walk around the room a bit, and make sure participants come up with a list that includes illegal behaviors and behaviors that lead to moral judgements. If no one offers the option, ask about relinquishing children to the care of the department. When they’ve finished, ask them to place a plus sign (+) next to the options that are socially acceptable and a minus sign (-) next to those that are socially unacceptable. Then have participants share their list of unacceptable options. On a flipchart, make three columns. Write the unacceptable options in the middle column, and then label the column, “Behavior.” Next, have participants imagine that their new family, social worker, friends, schoolmates and community know of the unacceptable behavior. Ask:
Handout: Three Hungry Children Refer participants to the handout. Activity: Three Hungry Children Lead the participants through the following guided imagery to demonstrate how behaviors (even unacceptable behaviors) are an attempt to get needs met. the guided imagery: Imagine you are the head of a household with three children, ages 9, 6, and 2. You have been unemployed and looking for work for the past 12 months. Three weeks ago, you received your last unemployment check. You are out of cash and have no food in the house for yourself or your three children. You have exhausted all of your resources. None of your friends or family has any money to loan to you, or food to give you. You applied for public assistance and food stamps, and your caseworker said you should receive your first check in 5-7 days. Your children have not eaten since 4:00 p.m. yesterday and have been telling you how hungry they are. You haven’t eaten since the day before that. You are worried, tired, and hungry. Ask participants to write down all the possible courses they could take to get food on the Three Hungry Children handout, under the question, “What would I do?” Instruct them not to censor their responses. To help participants get into the scenario, you may start by volunteering, “You know what I would do?” and then saying something on the extreme side, like “I would be dancing at the strip club.” Or say, “You know what my aunt would do? She would be out there with a baseball bat to get someone to give her money.” Walk around the room a bit, and make sure participants come up with a list that includes illegal behaviors and behaviors that lead to moral judgements. If no one offers the option, ask about relinquishing children to the care of the department. When they’ve finished, ask them to place a plus sign (+) next to the options that are socially acceptable and a minus sign (-) next to those that are socially unacceptable. Then have participants share their list of unacceptable options. On a flipchart, make three columns. Write the unacceptable options in the middle column, and then label the column, “Behavior.” Next, have participants imagine that their new family, social worker, friends, schoolmates and community know of the unacceptable behavior. Ask:
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