CASE STUDY 5:  You are attending a picnic given by your best…

CASE STUDY 5:  You are attending a picnic given by your best friend’s family.  In the course of the day you are introduced to her cousin, Charles, who is a lawyer for a big corporation.  In the conversation he asks where you work and you respond that you are a youth worker at Sunny Farms. He remarks, “You must be good at sports since I often see kids playing basketball when I drive by the agency.  It’s really good that these young people have such a nice place to stay.”

Harry was aware that these youth had a lot of room to grow p…

Harry was aware that these youth had a lot of room to grow personally and emotionally.  He also recognized their skill levels in social skills and problem solving, along with their general developmental deficits.  The camping trip would create a new context for youth to be challenged; and they would also be required to respond to those challenges, both individually and as a group.  If implemented successfully, the youth would have fun and experience a broad range of feelings, attitudes, new skills, behaviors and ideas that would offer them new ways of thinking of, and interacting with, themselves and the world they live in.   What option below promotes the most effective approach to enabling the youth to gain from this experience?