Introduction
Jessica Smith, a 13-year old biracial girl who identifies as a sexual minority, has been having trouble with maintaining her grades at school, causing trouble at school, and running away from home. Jessica has had a very limited history of acting out in the manners which had just been reported by her mother, Susan Johnson. Ms. Johnson has reported these types of behaviors occurring more frequently as Jessica visits her biological father.

Since Jessica is at an age where she can start thinking for herself, it will be up to her to abide by certain goals. Goal-setting can alleviate tensions in an environment before drastic measures are taken. (Grady & Dombo, 2016) Due to Ms. Smith’s history of financial instability, concern may be raised if her boyfriend and active stepfather to Jessica, Mr. Jones, were to leave the familial unit. Moreover, Jessica’s biological father, who seems to be a negative influence on her, is legally entitled to visitations with her. These circumstances are not within my control, and many of them may not necessarily pose a serious threat to Jessica’s development. While many of Jessica’s circumstances are out of her control as well, goals can be set to potentially change her behavior to prevent social services from taking further action. I believe that Jessica has the potential to be surrounded by better influences than what she has been surrounding herself with at school and at her father’s. The treatment question posed is whether Jessica will make positive changes in her behavior by changing her primary influences.

Treatment Plan
In order to prevent social services from taking further action on the Smith case, Jessica will be required to stay out of serious trouble prior to the next interview. This entails her attending her classes, keeping her grades at a satisfactory level, staying out of trouble at school, and not causing disorderly conduct within her household. Ms. Smith and Mr. Jones have shown genuinely good intentions towards Jessica and have demonstrated that they want what is best for her. Ms. Smith has reported that Jessica has been hanging around questionable groups of peers at school. In turn, she has seen changes in Jessica’s way of acting as well as her trends and hairstyles. While this is typical for adolescents, her behavior and sense of fashion are clear indicators that she is influenced by this crowd. Moreover, Ms. Smith has reported negative behaviors taking place more frequently as she spends time with her father.

As Jessica surrounds herself with the correct influences, we should expect her grades to raise and instances of negative behavior to decrease. We should expect instances of peer confrontation to decrease by 75% and runaways to cease completely. We should also expect for Jessica to earn no more than a 60% in each of her classes.

The primary goal is to have Jessica surround herself with positive influences. While it may seem like a drastic step, she will not be allowed to interact with any members in her named group of peers outside of standard school curriculum. This is to be enforced by her parents. Furthermore, Jessica is to begin attending events at her parent’s church no less than once each week. It has been shown that people’s behavior and decisions are influenced by the churches that they attend. (Smith, 2015) Since Ms. Smith has spoken favorably about the members of their church, it is advisable that Jessica participates in services and activities at least once a week. Jessica will also be expected to pass al of her classes. To assure this, parents will be required to check all of Jessica’s homework before she turns it in the following day. This will be enforced by her parents, who will also advise her father to enforce it as well. We will check in with Jessica and her parents periodically to get updates on her academic and behavioral performance in accordance to Jessica’s new social surroundings.