Given the Following Vignette, Discuss Who the Client Is

question 28

Essay

Given the following vignette, discuss who the client is.
Daniel has been working in juvenile justice for twenty years.He was just given a case of a 10-year-old Caucasian female named Lilly.Lilly was sexually abused by her uncle, Lenny, from age two to eight.A suspicion of abuse was reported to CPS by Lilly's Kindergarten Teacher at the age of 5 and by her first grade teacher at the age of 6.The teachers reported Lilly to be obese, in dirty clothing, not bathed, having greasy hair, strong body odor, and isolating herself from everyone.Each time CPS went to the home it was clean and there was no substantiation of any form of abuse.Lilly refused to answer teacher and CPS questions.By age 8 Lilly was running away from home and steeling food from the lunches of her peer group.She became a part of the Juvenile Justice System when she ran away from home missing 50 days of school her third grade year.She was found by police doing drugs in a crack house.If you were Daniel, who would you identify as the client? Why?

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