Southpaw Jake Gyllenhaal Theory

Southpaw Southern Adventist University Amaad Dowdell

The movie that was chosen for the case was called South Paw. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as a boxer named Billy Hope. He overcame being placed in foster care system as a child and married his childhood sweetheart. He does not know his parents and has social skill issues. He is faced with a sixth grade education as he has trouble reading and managing his financials. His wife makes all of the decisions for the house when it comes to raising their daughter. He controls his anger by boxing but does not know how to control is outside of the ring. He suffers from multiple mental health issues such depression, anxiety, anger, and hopeless. As he displays
It has nothing to do with the outside world but the readiness of the client to make a change in their lives. The key components of this theory are engaging, focusing, evoking, and planning (Lipchik, E. 2013). When it comes to engaging with Billy within the movie. He dealt with his issues by talking about them to court system and his trainer. He was able to build a relationship with establish a bond with close friends after the death of his wife. The trainer became his counselor as he questioned his ability to perform and be in the professor. When it comes to focusing on the issue, he looked at his past patterns of dealing with issues after the death of his wife. He was focused to look at his anger issues that brought him to greatness but became the downfall of his image. The habits of abusing alcohol narrowed his ability to make good decisions as he attempted suicide. This pattern was seen as self-destruction when he gave up drinking it. This change in pattern lead him to deal with his issues on a first hand basis and helped him to change in a positive way used to narrow the conversation to habits or patterns that clients want to change. It evoked him to have sense of importance to make changes to get his daughter back from foster care. It helped him to build back his confidence to change his boxing style to go on to win the match. This readiness to
(2013).. As the interventions are made by the client, the social worker has to listen to Billy’s concerns and display empathy in his situation. The relationship with his daughter is the reason that he should change because she has only one parent after her mother’s death. The process of changing involves making decisions and being financial stable. The second intervention would be reinforce the client’s statement about wanting to make a big change. This can be introduced by maintaining the client’s expression to change by his values and goals. When it comes establishing these things, the client is faced with going to jail and losing custody of his daughter. By helping the client to reinforce his statement of change will provide a long term health. The advice and feedback can be given to the client once he completed the tasks. The affirm client’s statement ability to change in a positive manner for the client to take steps to improve his situation. The court system set up anger management classes and scheduled supervised visitors with his daughter. He made a step to change his boxing style due to losing a fight earlier within the movie. He was forces to look at himself and behavior as man and role model to his