To prepare: Review the Learning Resources on the physiological response to trauma. Recall a day at your field placement or in another professional setting when you were exposed to others’ trauma. This could be related to the same event and client you discussed in Week 2, or it could be different. Consider the sensations you … Read more
To prepare: Review the Learning Resources on the hazards of practice. View the TEDx Talk in the Learning Resources, in which Laura van Dernoot Lipsky recounts her experience with vicarious trauma. Consider the message of the talk and what resonates with you, in the context of social work practice. Post your response to Laura van … Read more
Respond by Day 5 to at least one of your colleagues’ postings in one or more of the following ways: Ask a probing question. Share an insight from having read your colleague’s posting. Offer and support an opinion. Validate an idea with your own experience. Make a suggestion. Expand on your colleague’s posting.
To prepare: Review the introductory textbook chapter in the Learning Resources. As you reflect on the chapter, consider the purpose or passion that drives your interest in social work, as well as the focus area in which you see yourself practicing. Review the Kaltura section of the Classroom Support Center, accessed via the Help button (the i icon) on … Read more
Life stressors as common as work pressure or as obscure as being zapped with electricity while running in a maze, all activate the stress response. With such varying sources from which stressors emerge, stress is a holistic phenomenon with emotional, biological, cognitive, and coping aspects. Research into the stress response touches a variety of scientific … Read more
To prepare for this Assignment: Review the social change articles found in this week’s Learning Resources. Trustworthiness—summarize across the different data sources and respond to the following: What themes are in common? What sources have different themes? Explain the trustworthiness of your findings, in terms of: Credibility Transferability Dependability strategies Confirmability Based on the … Read more
To prepare for this Assignment: Finalize your Parts 1, 2, and the Annotated Bibliography of your Major Assignment 1. Then Submit Parts 1, 2, and your Annotated Bibliography section of your Major Assignment 1.
Respond to at least one of your colleagues’ post and determine whether you are able to understand the “whole picture” of the data or understand the data in its entirety. What might you add to their display and why? What might you change to their display and why?
Remembering that all research has some error, respond to at least one colleague’s post and comment on how we as social change agents and critical consumers of research can balance the usefulness with the error in the research. Do we throw the research out because of too much error, or is there something useful that … Read more
Respond by Day 6 to at least one of your colleagues’ postings in one or more of the following ways: Ask a probing question. Share an insight from having read your colleague’s posting. Offer and support an opinion. Validate an idea with your own experience. Make a suggestion. Expand on your colleague’s posting.