Mental
health has profound effects on an individual’s quality of life, physical and
social well- being, and economic productivity. Understanding the effects of
mental illness on individual patients and social systems is necessary for the
improvement of mental health care systems and the development of effective
mental health care.
Possible
topics for your Portfolio Project Paper – Please select only one topic from the
potential topics listed below and submit a two-to-three paragraph explanation
of why you have chosen your topic.
• Anxiety Disorders
• Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD/ADHD)
• Bipolar Disorder
• Borderline Personality Disorder
• Depression
• Dissociative Disorders
• Dual Diagnosis
• Eating Disorders
• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
• Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
• Schizoaffective Disorder
Schizophrenia
Category: Social Work
A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
Asking clients how they view themselves—in terms of ethnicity, race, national origin, and other dimensions of diversity—is a culturally humble and appropriate act. So, too, is learning more about a given population through research.
Evidence-based social work, as you recall, involves surveying the literature for the best available information on a particular practice issue and combining that with professional expertise and client preferences to make an educated decision. This same approach can be used in the context of diversity and culturally competent practice. Social work research has been conducted on many different global populations, and the evidence there can be used to guide practice. Remember, though, that there is no “one size fits all” technique for working with specific groups. These research findings must be tempered with the unique circumstances, characteristics, and wishes of a client.
For this Journal, you read peer-reviewed research articles on a global population of your choosing. Then you extract two principles to inform your practice with this population.
To prepare:
Reflect on what you learned about the global and displaced populations identified in this week’s Discussion. Select one population to further research.
Search in the Walden Library for at least two peer-reviewed research articles related to this population.
Submit a 1- to 2-page written journal in which you:
Identify the population you have selected.
Based on the two peer-reviewed research articles you found, identify and explain two principles to guide ongoing practice with this population.
Describe how your research into this population has informed you as a culturally competent social worker.
Use the Learning Resources and at least two peer-reviewed research articles to support your thinking. Make sure to provide APA citations and a reference list.
LEARNING RESOURCES
Required Readings
Marsiglia, F. F., Kulis, S. S., & Lechuga-Peña, S. (2021). Diversity, oppression, and change: Culturally grounded social work (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press.
Chapter 7, “Social Work Perspectives: Social Context, Consciousness, and Resiliency” (pp. 131–152)
American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Cultural formulationLinks to an external site.. In Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Arlington, VA: Author. doi:10.1176/appi.books.9780890425596.CulturalFormulation
National Association of Social Workers. (2019). Social justice brief: Challenges of refugee resettlement: Policy and psychosocial factorsLinks to an external site.. https://www.socialworkers.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=X2QaNfEuJUk%3D&portalid=0
Required Media
Think Cultural Health. (2019, May 1). Using the cultural formulation interviewLinks to an external site. [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SjBG9di8ss
Overview
In this final assignment, you will create a portfolio that highlights the projects, professional growth, and disciplinary skills that have been part of your work during the MSW program. Your portfolio will take the form of a PowerPoint presentation, so be creative with this assignment and include photos and other graphics that illustrate your social work journey.
By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following EPAs and advance practice behaviors:
Competency 1: Demonstrate Ethical and Professional Behavior.
C1.SP.A: Utilize best practices in ethical decision making by applying leadership skills, technology, relevant laws and regulations, core values, and standards of the NASW Code of Ethics to an ethical problem-solving model to inform ethical decision making in the specialization of advanced generalist practice.
C1.SP.B: Guided by best advanced generalist practice skills, apply professional behavior and leadership skills in oral, written, and electronic communication with diverse individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities in the specialization of advanced generalist practice.
Related Assignment Criterion:
1. Describe how ethical behaviors were demonstrated in practice.
Competency 3: Engage Anti-racism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ADEI) in Practice.
C3.SP.A: Demonstrate how diversity and intersectionality shape human experiences and apply anti-racist and anti-oppressive intervention techniques and technologies with diverse individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities in the specialization of advanced generalized practice.
C3.SP.B: Demonstrate cultural humility by applying leadership skills, ethical use of technology, critical reflection, self-awareness, and self-regulation to manage the influence of bias, power, privilege, and values in working with clients and constituencies, acknowledging them as experts of their own lived experiences in the specialization of advanced generalist practice.
Related Assignment Criterion:
2. Describe how ADEI awareness was demonstrated in practice.
Competency 4: Engage in Practice-Informed Research and Research-Informed Practice.
C4.SP.A: Apply leadership skills, ethical use of technology and research findings to inform and improve practice, policy, and programs in the specialization of advanced generalist practice settings.
Related Assignment Criterion:
3. Describe applications of integrating practice-informed research.
Competency 5: Engage in Policy Practice.
C5.SP.A: Use social justice, decision making, critical thinking, anti-racist, and anti-oppressive, strategies to assess how social welfare policies affect the delivery of and access to services with diverse individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities at the local and global levels in the specialization of advanced generalist practice.
Related Assignment Criterion:
4. Describe engagement in policy practice.
Competency 6: Engage with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.
C6.SP.A: Critically evaluate theories of human behavior, person in environment, and interpersonal conceptual frameworks to facilitate engagement with diverse individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities in the specialization of advanced generalist practice.
C6.SP.B: Apply leadership skills, emerging technologies, empathy, self-reflection, interpersonal skills, in culturally responsive engagement strategies with diverse individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities in the specialization of advanced generalist practice.
Related Assignment Criterion:
5. Describe evidence of engagement with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and/or communities.
Competency 7: Assess Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.
C7.SP.A: Apply and integrate leadership skills, technology, theories of human behavior, person in environment, and culturally responsive interpersonal conceptual frameworks when assessing clients and constituencies in the specialization of advanced generalist practice.
C7.SP.B: Apply critical thinking, interpersonal, engagement skills and the ethical use of technology in the assessment process to promote client rights to self-determination and collaborate with clients and constituencies to develop mutually agreed upon goals in the specialization of advanced generalist practice.
Related Assignment Criterion:
6. Describe assessment of individuals, families, groups, organizations, and/or communities.
Competency 8: Intervene with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.
C8.SP.B: Analyze and integrate culturally responsive best practice theories and methods in the specialization of advanced generalist practice to negotiate, mediate, and advocate with and on the behalf of clients and constituencies.
C8.SP.C: Apply leadership skills, decision making, interprofessional conceptual frameworks, and emerging technologies in the specialization of advanced generalist social work practice when intervening with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities to promote systemic change towards client sustainability.
Related Assignment Criterion:
7. Describe interventions with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and/or communities.
Competency 9: Evaluate Practice with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.
C9.SP.A: Analyze and integrate culturally responsive evaluation and assessment methods to evaluate outcomes with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities in the specialization of advanced generalist practice.
C9.SP.B: Apply critical thinking, leadership skills and technology in the application of evaluation findings with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities in the specialization of advanced generalist practice.
Related Assignment Criterion:
8. Evaluate practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and/or communities and offers evidence.
Instructions
As you assemble your MSW program portfolio as a PowerPoint presentation, include the following:
Regarding the client or client system that you analyzed in your Case Study Analysis and Intervention Plan assignment:
Describe how ethical behaviors were demonstrated in practice with this client or client system.
Offer specific examples to support the description of how ethical behaviors were demonstrated.
Describe how ADEI awareness was demonstrated in practice.
Offer specific examples to support the description of how ADEI awareness was demonstrated.
Describe applications of integrating practice-informed research.
Offer specific examples of integrating practice-informed research.
Regarding the federal, state, or local social policy that you analyzed in your Policy Analysis and Advocacy Paper:
Describe applications of integrating practice-informed research.
Offer specific examples of integrating practice-informed research.
Describe engagement in policy practice.
Offer specific examples of engaging in policy practice.
Regarding other experiences during the MSW program:
Describe evidence of engagement with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and/or communities.
Explain growth and transformative experiences.
Describes assessment of individuals, families, groups, organizations, and/or communities.
Explain growth and transformative experiences.
Describes interventions with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and/or communities.
Explain growth and transformative experiences.
Evaluates practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and/or communities and offers evidence.
Explain growth and transformative experiences.
Submission Requirements
The assignment you submit is expected to meet the following requirements:
Written communication: Written communication should be scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for members of the social work profession. Visit the Capella Writing CenterLinks to an external site. for a variety of helpful writing resources.
Presentation Length: 15–20 double-spaced pages/powerpoint slide, not including title slide or reference slide.
Cited Sources: Minimum of eight scholarly sources. All literature cited should be current, with publication dates within the past five years. Visit the Capella University LibraryLinks to an external site. and the Social Work Masters Library Research GuideLinks to an external site. for a variety of research resources.
APA Format: Resources, citations, title page, and reference page should be formatted according to current APA style and formatting standards. Visit Evidence and APALinks to an external site. for resources to help you with APA format.
I HAVE NOT CHOSEN A TOPIC AREA SO FEEL FREE TO DO SO. I WORK WITH CHILDREN AGED 2-18 WHO HAVE DEALT WITH TRAUMA.
The Capstone Project (CP) Product Proposal is a tool for students, instructors/mentors, and the program to assess progress, planning, and execution of the Capstone in its entirety. Concentration year students will engage in an iterative process via various writing assignments throughout Colloquium I to complete the CP Product Proposal. This iterative process aids students in articulating their ideas and plans for the Capstone project.
Completion of this proposal at the end of the Summer session is an indication of the student’s commitment to ongoing engagement in the DSW program and the completion of the CP requirement. The final CP Product Proposal will be submitted, graded, and approved in Colloquium I. Approval of the Capstone Project Product Proposal denotes that the student has transitioned from DSW Student to DSW Candidate.
Instructions: Overview of the Scholarship Agenda
In two to three pages, provide an introduction/overview of your Capstone project. Succinctly describe your state purpose that will thread your three products together.
Consider the following questions:
Introduce your topic area. Why is it important to the social work profession? How does it connect to your concentration area? Is there a practice problem/challenge connected to your topic area – if so, what is that challenge?
What are key terms that are related to your topic? Keep your reader and audience in mind – what key term definitions would be helpful in their understanding of your topic?
Develop foundational background, grounded in research, for your topic area. What does your reader/audience need to know to understand your topic/purpose? Do you know what theory you will apply to better understand your topic area – if so, discuss it in the background.
Conclusion/Transition paragraph to the remainder of your Capstone Proposal.
Tips:
Brainstorm an outline or use conceptual mapping to help you gather your ideas about your Capstone Project
Two to three pages is not long, which makes it imperative that you are clear, critical, and concise in your writing.
Use APA 7th edition formatting throughout the entire Capstone Product Outline, including in-text citations and references. References are not included in the page count.
A CASE OF A NEW IMMIGRANT
Imagine that you are an immigrant arriving in a new country. Perhaps you are escaping persecution, famine, or war, or simply pursuing a better life. Perhaps you are detained at the border. You do not have any support networks in this new country, or if you do, they are distant relations. You do not know how the legal system works. You may not know the official language. What would you need? Where would you go?
Social workers are positioned to support new immigrants in their access to services, navigation of systems and policies, and mental and physical health. They must demonstrate cultural humility by, for example, integrating questions related to cultural formulation into their interviews and assessments.
In this Discussion, you research a global or displaced population and create a scenario in which a member of that population immigrates to the United States. You then respond to a colleague’s case scenario by describing how you would engage with the immigrant client as a social worker.
To prepare:
Review the American Psychiatric Association’s information on cultural formulation, as well as the Think Cultural Health video showing the cultural formulation interview in practice.
Identify and research a global or displaced population to focus on for this Discussion. Imagine that a member of this population immigrates to the United States. What strengths and challenges might they have? Develop a brief case scenario describing the immigrant’s experience.
Post your original case scenario involving a new immigrant to the United States. In your scenario:
Identify the country of origin, language(s) spoken, and any employment, housing, legal, or family concerns of the individual.(I’m from cuba )
Describe strengths and challenges related to their arrival and experience of American culture.
LEARNING RESOURCES
Required Readings
Marsiglia, F. F., Kulis, S. S., & Lechuga-Peña, S. (2021). Diversity, oppression, and change: Culturally grounded social work (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press.
Chapter 7, “Social Work Perspectives: Social Context, Consciousness, and Resiliency” (pp. 131–152)
American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Cultural formulationLinks to an external site.. In Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Arlington, VA: Author. doi:10.1176/appi.books.9780890425596.CulturalFormulation
National Association of Social Workers. (2019). Social justice brief: Challenges of refugee resettlement: Policy and psychosocial factorsLinks to an external site.. https://www.socialworkers.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=X2QaNfEuJUk%3D&portalid=0
Required Media
Think Cultural Health. (2019, May 1). Using the cultural formulation interviewLinks to an external site. [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SjBG9di8ss
The steps at the heart of single-subject research are part of the everyday practice of social work. Each day social workers implement interventions to meet clients’ needs and monitor results. However, conducting proper single-subject research entails far more than these simple day-to-day practices. Proper single-system research requires a high degree of knowledge and commitment. Social workers must fully understand the purpose and variations of the design. They must develop a hypothesis based upon research and select the right design for testing it. They must ensure the reliability and validity of the data to be collected and know how to properly analyze and evaluate that data.
In this Assignment, you devise a plan to evaluate the evidence-based intervention that you are applying with your chosen client. In particular, you must prepare to monitor progress using measures that can be evaluated in a single-subject research design. You must also draw from the research literature to set the context and need for the study.
Review the work you have done thus far in Weeks 1, 2, and 3 with your chosen client, namely the identified issue, evidence-based intervention, and single-subject design. You will use this work to develop a research plan for a single-subject design study on your client.
Scan through the provided single-subject design studies in the Learning Resources again to understand the typical structure.
Download the Single-Subject Design Template
from the Learning Resources and use it to complete this Assignment.
Submit a 4- to 5-page proposal/research plan for single-subject evaluation for your work with your chosen client. Identify the problem that you will target, the outcomes that you will measure, the evidence-based intervention, and the evaluation design. Include the following sections:
Introduction
Literature Review
Methodology
Setting and Intervention
Expected Results
Use the Learning Resources and peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles to support your paper. Make sure to include appropriate APA citations and a reference list.
Reference list
Single-Subject Design Studies
Gee, B. M., Lloyd, K., Sutton, J., & McOmber, T. (2021). Weighted blankets and sleep quality in children with autism spectrum disorders: A single-subject designLinks to an external site.. Children, 8(1), 10. https://doi.org/10.3390/children8010010
McMahon, A. K., Cox, A. E., & Miller, D. E. (2021). Supporting mindfulness with technology in students with intellectual and developmental disabilitiesLinks to an external site.. Journal of Special Education Technology, 36(4), 284–296. https://doi.org/10.1177/0162643420924191
Assignment Template
Document: Single-Subject Design Template Download Single-Subject Design Template(Word document)
The goal of this assignment is for you to explore a social policy related to child welfare. You will be required to select a social policy from the readings in your textbook. Once you have selected the policy, you will develop a PowerPoint presentation of at least 15 slides.
The Policy chosen Is the FAMILY FIRST PREVENTION SERVICES ACT
Below is a proposed outline/format for your presentation:
Introduction(minimum of 3 slides)
In this presentation section, you should introduce the policy to your reader. According to
Purdue Owl (2012), the purpose of the introduction is to:
Introduce your topic
Create interest
Provide necessary background information
Identify your main idea
Preview the rest of your essay
Context (minimum of 3 slides)
In this section of your presentation, you should explore why there was a need for the policy and what events set the context for your policy being drafted and implemented. You should explore critical questions such as:
What was happening in child welfare that led to the need for the policy?
Were there any key research studies or world events that led to drafting this policy?
What need did this policy address (as a way of understanding why it was drafted)?
Detailed Overview of Your Policy(minimum of 4 slides)
In this section of the presentation, you are expected to discuss the key parameters of your policy explicitly. Include information such as key dates author of the policy, and seek to answer the question: What does your policy “do”?
Impact (minimum of 3 slides)
This section of the paper should explore your policy’s impact on child welfare. Has this policy been implemented correctly? Do you think that this policy has had a positive impact on the child welfare system? Why or why not?
Conclusion (minimum of 2 slides)
This section of the paper should wrap up the primary points presented in the presentation. According to Purdue Owl (2012), the conclusion of your presentation should accomplish three major goals:
Restate the main idea of your essay, or your thesis statement
Summarize the three subpoints of your essay
Leave the reader with an interesting final impression
Social workers must be familiar with current research on best practices in social work. Theory informs best practices, and as theory continues to evolve and change in response to changes and complexities in the field of practice, it’s crucial to be familiar with the research.
Select one of the Grand Challenges of Social Work or a related topic. Examine current research on trauma and resilience within this challenge/community/population. Analyze best practices for generalist social workers using a trauma-informed, resilience model.
4 scholarly references.
Grand Challenges: Promote Smart Decarceration
How might a social worker apply ” Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs” to assess client needs. Explain your answer. Discuss poverty from a Functionalism perspective. Give at least 2 examples of how poverty could be considered to be functional or advantageous for those who control society.
Instructions
It is anticipated that the initial discussion post should be in the range of 250-300 words. Response posts to peers have no minimum word requirement but must demonstrate topic knowledge and scholarly engagement with peers. Substantive content is imperative for all posts. All discussion prompt elements for the topic must be addressed. Please proofread your response carefully for grammar and spelling. Do not upload any attachments unless specified in the instructions. All posts should be supported by a minimum of one scholarly resource, ideally within the last 5 years. Journals and websites must be cited appropriately. Citations and references must adhere to APA format.
Classroom Participation
Students are expected to address the initial discussion question by Wednesday of each week. Participation in the discussion forum requires a minimum of three (3) substantive postings (this includes your initial post and posting to two peers) on three (3) different days. Substantive means that you add something new to the discussion supported with citation(s) and reference(s), you are not just agreeing. This is also a time to ask questions or offer information surrounding the topic addressed by your peers. Personal experience is appropriate for a substantive discussion, however should be correlated to the literature.
All discussion boards will be evaluated utilizing rubric criterion inclusive of content, analysis, collaboration, writing and APA. If you fail to post an initial discussion or initial discussion is late, you will not receive points for content and analysis, you may however post to your peers for partial credit following the guidelines above.
Initial Response
Instructions:For the discussion question this week, select one of the three scenarios and construct a questionnaire. Scenario 1: Assume that you are a new social worker employed in a residential complex for retired people. In talking to one resident, you find out that he has complaints about the quality of the food, the limited variety of social activities, and the inadequate transportation to nearby stores and restaurants. He states also that the administrators of the facility tend to ignore his complaints and those of other residents.
Scenario 2: The local non affordable housing provider would like to construct a new affordable housing unit in a neighborhood close to the downtown area. In preliminary discussions with neighbors, they report some residents may be concerned about a new affordable housing unit in their neighborhood.
Scenario 3: Assume you are a social worker in a hospital emergency room providing crisis services. In your work you notice that many people seem to be frustrated with the length of time they are required to wait before being seen by the social worker.
Please complete the following prompts for your discussion post:
Construct a questionnaire composed of six questions that will help you to find out the extent to which the concepts in the scenario can be measured. Use quantitative survey questions.
Briefly give your rationale for at least three of the questions you selected. Use references from the literature to support the survey questions you selected.
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.
The post and responses are valued at 40 points. Please review post and response expectations. Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets criteria.
Estimated time to complete: 2 hours
Peer Response
Instructions:Please read and respond to at least two of your peers’ initial postings. You may want to consider the following questions in your responses to your peers:
Compare and contrast your initial posting with those of your peers. How are they similar or how are they different?
What information can you add that would help support the responses of your peers?
Ask your peers a question for clarification about their post.
What most interests you about their responses? Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.
All peer responses are due by Sunday at 11:59 pm CT.
Estimated time to complete: 1 hour