As I read the two chapters, several experiences visually played in my mind resembling a flat television screen. Then I read the passage on worldview; the flat television screen rushed with snippets of occasions I had with clients in Dade Family Counseling. The events I am talking about relating to Sue's locus of responsibility and locus of control (Erford, Hays, Crockett, 2014, p. 30). Consequently, the experiences with these two particular clients (a divorced Cuban male with two kids and a married Black Cuban woman with one daughter) who were released early for exemplary behavior were upset they must comply with a mandatory court order to attend the assigned treatment program (BIP or SAP) and self-pay. According to the clients, if they…show more content… The Hispanic male client came in for his intake assessment with the results, admitting him for both programs, BIP and SAP. The client wasn't pleased with the outcome since he was let out early for proper conduct behavior. Now he had to pay for these programs and felt the system was working against him for making him pay for these treatments. His view of the world is the external locus of responsibility, blaming the system for letting him out early to pay for both treatments without taking into account why his reasons for being incarcerated. Including the external locus of control of the consequences of his choice to leave prison early was not under his control. The client did have an option to stay in jail to finish out his term. The client's worldview is cynical, sees that he was unjustly treated and life events were out of control. Additionally, the Cuban mother even though she loves her daughter, has an external locus of responsibility and external locus of control just as the Cuban male. She too would have preferred remaining inside than to deal with all the minutia of payment, time, classes, along with individual counseling and traveling than resolve the parole
