How much agency do you think members of the Maria Chavez family have? Explain

  • What resources might be drawn from systems external to the Maria Chavez family to maximize Maria’s end-of-life care?
    Sometimes hospice social workers find that unresolved family conflicts are complicating end-of-life care for a parent or other family member.
  • How important do you think it is for Maria Chavez’s social worker to try to improve sibling relationships between Sarah and her sisters?
    Both cognitive social learning theory and theories in the humanistic perspective emphasize the important role of human agency, the capacity to intentionally make things happen, in human behavior.
  • How much agency do you think members of the Maria Chavez family have? Explain