This learning tool requires the student to critique an interview with a client by identifying and analyzing thoughts and emotional reactions/responses to the encounter with the client. Social work values and standards are applied as a guideline for this analysis. The Walsh (2002) reading will inform this assignment. Guidelines Students will complete Process Recordings … Read more
Assignment: Invisible Disabilities Case Analysis Consider how others react toward a person with a visible disability. Do they stare? Do they move away? Do they invade the person’s space and ask inappropriate questions? Now consider someone with hidden, or invisible, disabilities, those that are not immediately apparent. In the public’s consciousness, disabilities are largely defined … Read more
For each policy, briefly: Disabilities, Mental Health, Substance Use Explain how the policy is addressed at the federal, state, and local levels. What programs were developed from this this policy? Reflect on how the policy affects or may affect your community, geographic area, or potential clients. Then, address this unique prompt for this week’s … Read more
Assignment 2: Process Recordings A process recording is a written tool used by field education experience students, field instructors, and faculty to examine the dynamics of social work interactions in time. Process recordings can help in developing and refining interviewing and intervention skills. By conceptualizing and organizing ongoing activities with social work clients, you are … Read more
The field log provides a concrete means for the student to: Account for professional activity in the field placement Demonstrate professional development related to contracted learning experiences and the traditional-year competencies Reflect on professional growth and development Provide information that facilitates dialogue between the student and Field Supervisor Document for the Field Supervisor, concerns, … Read more
By Day 3 Post a blog post that includes: An explanation of the use of self during your field education experience that you may have encountered or that you might encounter A description of potential boundary challenges in your field education experience
For citizens in some countries, religious oppression is common and long-standing. Although freedom of religion is protected in the United States, religious intolerance and discrimination remain. Consider Islamophobia and the backlash against those of the Muslim faith following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Social workers must be alert for the complex ways that religious oppression and … Read more
For this week’s assignment, reflect on the many roles (macro and micro) that social workers can have within behavioral health. Assume you have been asked to prepare an educational brochure to help those you may engage with from other disciplines understand the roles social workers can have when working with specific populations. Address the … Read more
Instructions Your assignment this week is to prepare a white paper. Identify a current social issue that involves the concepts of power, privilege, and/or oppression of an individual or group of individuals within society. Explain the social work skills needed to provide culturally-relevant treatment services to a client system (individual, family, or group) and the … Read more
Instructions Review the fictitious case study below. Based on this scenario, complete the following: Document a stressor or problem the client discussed in the scenario. Using CBT as your evidence-based practice model, plan one intervention that could be used to help your client with her stressor. Clearly articulate why you chose this particular intervention and … Read more