leveraging the SDI in family reunification, #1

i have identified my first participant to utilize the SDI as part of treatment services' family reunification (fr) process.  mother of 4, mental health issues, under 30, low ses, woman of color, little education, apparent willingness to learn.

so, i hypothesize that her motivation to cooperate with me is solely to reunify with her children, to pretend to learn and want to change, and to see what level of dramaturgical performance she can display in order to convince me of her sincerity to learn and to change.

i will first assess where she is in her "scheme of things," and then mine the ideas and plan she has toward reunifying with her children.

next, i will show her a prezi that i created during the SDI training in carlsbad this year, which is an introduction to the fr process, and will introduce relationship awareness and SDI.  i will observe her attention span and look for signs of overstimulization...yawn, figiting, derailing questions, etc.  this will help me know the window of attention opportunity for future meetings.

my plan is to administer a "pre test/post test" to see if there is any change in mvs during the fr process.

i must overcome serious skepticism, lack of trust, "you represent 'the man' syndrome," and cognitive distortions, if any.

film at 11...