Dual perspective is the conscious and systematic process of perceiving, understanding and comparing simultaneously the values, attitudes, and behavior of the larger societal system with those of the client's immediate family and community system. In making this comparison a social worker for example, can get a better idea of where a person is coming from and what they have gone through. For instance Shaunna comes from a family where here father was a Native American and her mother was white. A white American living on an Indian reservation was very unheard of in those days, so it was very hard for Shaunna's mother and father to keep it together. Shaunnas' family lived on a reservation that had little work which was the cause of the poverty that they lived in. While growing up Shaunna faced many difficult obstacles such a racism, ignorance, substance abuse, and hatred. In comparing Shaunna's dual perspective we will find a better understanding of what brought Shaunna to !
             Shaunna grew up on a poor Indian reservation with a mother who was white and a father whose was Native American, this is a recipe for a very difficult childhood. The other Indians on the reservation did not take kindly to Shaunnas father having a wife who was white. This made it very difficult place for her mother to live. Shaunna didn't truly feel what her mother went through until she left her nurturing system and went into a different world which was not dominated by Indians, but by whites. While growing up everyone knew who she was, she lived in a small community which was dominated by her race. Leaving this nurturing system and jumping into the sustaining system which she had no idea existed was a difficult adjustment. Shaunna came to realize that this sustaining system did not include her in the greater picture because she was Indian. The conflicts and the ignorance that Shaunna faced growing up has
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