Category: Social Work

Self Care Plan

For this assignment, you will need to submit a 3-4 double-s

Self Care Plan

For this assignment, you will need to submit a 3-4 double-spaced page plan for self-care, building on what you wrote in the fall. You will need to chronicle the actions that you are currently taking or plan to take to support the health and wellness of your emotional, physical, psychological, social, and spiritual selves during the semester and into your professional career. As a resource, please consult this Self-Care Starter Kit from University at Buffalo, School of Social Work. For this assignment, please:
Outline what your personal well-being looks like now across dimensions of self (i.e., Emotions, Mind, Work, Relationships., Spirit, Body) and what you hope it can look like going forward.
Outline challenges that can interfere or have interfered with well-being across these dimensions (connect to specific dimensions where possible)
Outline supports that you have, or you want to develop to nurture well-being across these dimensions (connect to specific dimensions where possible) —- since the fall and going forward.
Outline what steps you are taking and will continue to take (and new plans you anticipate) to actualize or embody your vision of personal well-being outlined above
Reflections on internship encounters this semester which you have experienced in understanding of your personal values and the values and ethics of our profession
Please review the self-care, health promotion, and wellness professional literature as you develop this plan. Incorporate at least 2 professional peer-reviewed academic sources ( different from the fall) to support your updated plan.

For your policy assignment you were tasked with identifying a social welfare pro

For your policy assignment you were tasked with identifying a social welfare problem and current policy addressing the issue. As with so many of our social welfare problems, our policies are not sufficient in holistically addressing the problem. Student groups should identify an individual or family example that highlights the prevalence of the problem you have identified. You are free to discuss multiple individuals or families if you desire. You should also have a holistic picture of the status of the need in America by identifying statistics that report prevalence of the issue. For example, what is the rate of homelessness or how many Americans are currently homeless and what are the consequences of this. The individual or family identified should clearly illustrate the impact of the lack of resources on individual or family functioning. Student should then discuss the effectiveness of a local agency/effort that is addressing the issue. For instance, if your case centers around homelessness, the group would identify an individual or family that is homeless and a local agency whose mission is to address this problem. The student will then look at the services provided, the duration of the services and the qualifications or requirements for receiving services to determine if the services available adequately meets the need. The deficiency of services and/or resources available to meet the need should guide the remaining portions of your portfolio assignment.
This assignment should be a minimum of three pages in length. References should be used to support the content. There is no minimum requirement of references, however only 1 textbook can be used for the entire portfolio. Those used can also be used in your policy proposal and/or analysis. The paper must be professionally written, edited and cited using APA format.

2.9 QUESTION: Who or what has shaped your individual life chances/choices the mo

2.9 QUESTION: Who or what has shaped your individual life chances/choices the most? Why/how? Briefly identify what person, place, thing and/or social institution that has shaped you. It’s not necessary to become too graphic or personal. This assignment will hopefully get you to start thinking with a sociological perspective, thinking about yourself as a social being and thinking about your behavior in a social context. This is about you as an individual only. Include your answer to the question posed in 2.8 regarding the photo of a group of people here as well. What stands out about that picture? Your paper should be approximately 2-3 paragraphs.

After exploring this module’s Learn section, address the following:
1) PTSD is a

After exploring this module’s Learn section, address the following:
1) PTSD is a term often loosely used for any trauma in our popular culture. What are the current version of the DSM’s diagnostic requirements for PTSD in adults?
2) What are “suicide clues” and “suicide warning signs”? Should all suicidal gestures be taken seriously? Why or why not?
3) Answer any one of the following items for your third question:
a) What are some of the common myths of rape and how have the myths been debunked?
b) What is cyberstalking and how can it affect those being stalked?
c) How can medical crises destabilize family systems and in what way can crisis interventionists effectively help?

Please use this link to watch Chapter 3 lecture Links to an external site.
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Please use this link to watch Chapter 3 lecture Links to an external site.
1. During the lecture we watched a video where a police officer attempted to talk down Grant from attempting suicide. Write an empathetic response the police officer could have said that you think would have helped the situation.

1. Discuss THREE (3) ethical issues when working with parents who believe in ‘Sp

1. Discuss THREE (3) ethical issues when working with parents who believe in ‘Spare the rod, Spoil the child’. State briefly your professional yardstick in determining a punishment that amounts to abuse. (700words) (4 references)
2. Apply the family system theory to explain how a social worker should manage parents’ harsh physical punishment of a child. (700 words) (3 references)
References to consider for 1 & 2
Family system theory – family effect (Murray Bowen)
Erikson and Freud’s theory
Reamer,F.(2002).Makingdifficultdecisions.SocialWorkToday. RetrievedAugust8,2015fromwebsite http://www.socialworktoday.com/news/eoe_101402.shtml
Book by Don Collins – Family social work
3. In social work define spirituality and appraise its roles in shaping the perspective on life, with literature references and examples. Discuss how can social workers play such a role in casework and family intervention practices. (560words) (3 references)

This week’s case example will be the case in Chapter 7 “Satanic Panic” of the Pe

This week’s case example will be the case in Chapter 7 “Satanic Panic” of the Perry and Szalavitz text.
Macro Dimension: The macro dimension focuses on large systems – (e.g., state systems, national systems, laws, regulations, insurance industry, research, policy, advocacy, ACE study, system change, mental health systems, etc.). Macro is not clinical or directly individual.
After reading the case example,
Discuss how the larger systems (listed above) contributed to the trauma the children experienced. Include your rationales for your observations.
What kinds of system changes and policies would you recommend?
In what ways would you hope that these changes might affect the children?
Use at least three references with unlimited citations from the three course texts to support your ideas. Students are to write using their own words/summary of the material and all sources must be cited. Reliance only on direct quotes is discouraged (students are required to paraphrase).
Use this link to the Paraphrasing Properly video for more directions on how to paraphrase material rather than use direct quotes:
https://youtu.be/p7ng9WyzSU8 Links to an external site.
Headings must be used to show where each area is addressed.
Please do not summarize the case example (everyone is reading the same case example each week).
Guidelines:
Your initial post is due Thursday. Your work on the forums for this week will be graded as part of the weekly discussion grade.
A sufficient post will be a minimum of 300 words (some explanation is expected) and a maximum of 500 words (try to be concise). Use the discussion forum directions and grading rubric below as you construct your initial post.

Please use this link to watch Chapter 3 lecture Links to an external site.
1. Du

Please use this link to watch Chapter 3 lecture Links to an external site.
1. During the lecture we watched a video where a police officer attempted to talk down Grant from attempting suicide. Write an empathetic response the police officer could have said that you think would have helped the situation.

FOR EACH of the five RESOURCES:
Please discuss at least two interesting concep

FOR EACH of the five RESOURCES:
Please discuss at least two interesting concepts or facts that you learned from each resource, as well as the general meaning of that resource. You are also free to reflect on any critical thinking you had about that resource. THE MINIMUM LENGTH NEEDED FOR FULL CREDIT IS AT LEAST 5 SENTENCES PER RESOURCE. Everything should be in your own words, and every resource should be cited in-text as well as a reference list.
Resources
1)Episode 6: The Fosters-accessed on HULU
2)Wolf, M. (2023). Chapter 12. Interventions at the Child and Parental Levels [Video]. Recorded lecture in D2L.
3)Wolf, M. (2023). Chapter 13: Interventions with Couples and Gender-Sensitive Interventions. [Video]. Recorded lecture in D2L.
Here is the link to the above two videos
https://we.tl/t-5Wj0fNITEK
4)Article: McGeorge et al. (2016). To refer or not to refer: Exploring family therapists’ beliefs and practices related to the referral of lesbian, gay, and bisexual clients. (article is attached)
5) NASW Code of Ethics: https://www.socialworkers.org/About/Ethics/Code-of-Ethics/Code-of-Ethics-English
THEN ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS. Post due Sunday by 11:30PM ET.

1) If you are feeling some type of way about working with gay couples, should you refer? Same question for transgender folks. Why or why not? How does your stance uphold our Code of Ethics?
2) There were several specific techniques I discussed in the video discussing interventions with children and parents. Apply two of them to the Foster family, and discuss how you would go about doing them.
3) In that video, I discussed a case that I was working with. If you were seeing the client and her family when she was aged 5, how might you use what you have learned in the course so far to intervene with the family?
4) In my video on working with couples, I discussed John Gottman’s work. Do you see any of the “Four Horsemen” with Lena and Stef?https://we.tl/t-5Wj0fNITEK

Please use this link to watch Chapter 3 lecture Links to an external site.
1. Du

Please use this link to watch Chapter 3 lecture Links to an external site.
1. During the lecture we watched a video where a police officer attempted to talk down Grant from attempting suicide. Write an empathetic response the police officer could have said that you think would have helped the situation.