2.4: What Challenges You?
Part 1: Which of the situations on this list would you find the hardest to work with? Make note of the three you’d find hardest. What are your “hot buttons”?
A parent who spends most of her money on drugs.
A parent who believes his wife/partner deserves the beatings he gives her.
A parent who lies to you.
A parent who lives in a deplorably dirty home with human/animal waste and no water.
A parent who fondles his 4-year-old child.
A parent who used drugs during her pregnancy.
A parent who refuses to take the medication that controls his mood swings.
A parent who left his children in the car in a parking lot while he went drinking at bars until closing time.
A parent who won’t leave the man who physically abuses her in front of her children
A parent who is so depressed she doesn’t get out of bed for weeks at a time
Part 2: After you have made your choices, post your responses to the following questions in the online forum below:
Which situations did you pick as your top three and why?
How might your values, thoughts, and feelings about these situations impact your effectiveness as a CASA/GAL volunteer?