by admin | Sep 12, 2022 | Social Work and Human Services
You are a counselor in a small community mental health clinic in California, where you’ve been working for about 18 months with your client, Yoon, who is a 23-year-old woman of Korean-American heritage. Yoon came to you as a recent college graduate, and she hoped to find some resolution to some issues going on in her family. Yoon graduated with a degree in business from the local college and was offered a very well-paying job in New York City upon graduation. She declined the job offer in favor of helping her father to run the family business and had some regrets about that decision.
She reported to you that she felt very ‘stuck’ between the family’s pressure to keep her in California running the business, where both parents work, and her desire to expand her horizons in New York. She feels quite guilty for even wanting to leave the family, and at first, she refused to even discuss that job offer with her family.
After 18 months of intensive individual work and several sessions with the family, Yoon ultimately decides to pursue a job in New York and move across the country. Her grandmother joins her for her last session with you and presents you with a beautiful, handmade quilt that she created in gratitude for the support you’ve shown the family.
Briefly describe any relevant cultural issues at play in this scenario, and their implications for the counseling relationship. How might culture play a role in Yoon’s decision-making process here?
In light of the attitudes, beliefs, and values addressed in Module 1, briefly describe any issues of justice, fidelity, autonomy, veracity, beneficence, and nonmaleficence that might influence your ongoing work with Yoon and her family.
What potential cultural pitfalls might you experience in your work with Yoon and her family, and how might you avoid them?
Your agency has a policy against accepting personal gifts from clients. How might you respond to the quilt that Yoon’s grandmother brought to you in light of this policy, keeping both culture and agency policy in mind?
by admin | Sep 12, 2022 | Social Work and Human Services
Submit a 2- to 3-page paper that addresses the following:
Explain whether each exchange in the “Rating Samples for MI Spirit” document is consistent with the spirit of motivational interviewing. Why, or why not? Be specific.
In instances where you do not believe that the exchange is consistent with the spirit of motivational interviewing, explain how the practitioner could have responded to be consistent with the spirit of motivational interviewing. Again, be specific.
Reference:
Miller, W. R., & Rollnick, S. (2013). Motivational interviewing: Helping people change (3rd ed.). The Guilford Press.
by admin | Sep 12, 2022 | Social Work and Human Services
Developing a professional identity requires three important steps: (1) gaining knowledge, skills, and values held by other practitioners in the chosen profession; (2) differentiating oneself from those who are not part of the chosen profession; and (3) identifying with the chosen profession. One way in which students can begin to develop a professional identity is through critical self-reflection (Trede, Macklin, & Bridges, 2012).
For this Assignment, you write an initial draft of your professional identity statement as a leader in the human services profession. In doing so, you reflect on your values and beliefs, how you define yourself as a practitioner, and your special interests (e.g., specific issues and populations of interest to you, including those that speak to a social justice passion) in the context of leading change efforts in the human services profession.
Describe the values and beliefs that influence you as an advanced human services professional practitioner concerned with leading change efforts to benefit individuals and communities and create a more just society.
Explain how you define yourself as a practitioner working in a leadership position.
Describe your special interests (e.g., specific issues and populations of interest to you, including those that speak to a social justice passion).
by admin | Sep 12, 2022 | Social Work and Human Services
Choose a helping professions field that you would be interested in pursuing. Conduct research regarding training requirements in that field, licensure requirements, and the type of degree needed to do the work you’d like to do. Then, you will reflect on why you believe that profession would be a good personal and professional fit.
3 Academic Sources minimum are required
by admin | Sep 9, 2022 | Social Work and Human Services
Using your power point #2, prepare a comparative table synthesizing and comparing the qualitative, quantitative, and mixed focus RESEARCH METHOD. List3-5 characteristics
Quantitative, Qualitative, Mixed Focus
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Using valid sources of research
2. Why are research methods(qualitative,quantitative and mixed focus) important in social work? Provide an example of each.
3. What is a literature review?
4. What is a hypothesis?
Maximun 3 pages plus references.
Please don’t forget APA citation for the biography and format
by admin | Sep 6, 2022 | Social Work and Human Services
This assignment addresses that part of social work practice that you believe to be the most difficult for you to perform. A central part of the paper should be a candid, open examination of how your own perceptions, attitudes, values, experiences, emotions and stereotypes may influence your ability to perform this particular aspect of social work practice.
Topic to focus on/area of practice: Working with clients with criminal backgrounds especially sex offenders
After thoroughly defining and describing the practice aspect you select (topic is above this), examine the roots of your perceived difficulty. Theories and required readings discussed in the current or previous classes should be applied to the assessment.
Next, incorporate discussion on the NASW Code of Ethics, specifically the core values of social work. Which values apply to your discussion? Be specific in your application.
The final section should be a thoughtful description of the personal plan you have devised to address this perceived deficit for future practice. Please note: stating that you will simply refer a client for services elsewhere is not sufficient.
Written in first person. Limit the body of your paper to 3-4 typewritten, double-spaced pages, using a 12-point font. You must make use of at least 2 different professional reference sources (general web pages/sites are not considered professional literature) to support your discussion, in addition to the NASW Code of Ethics. Be sure that the sources you cite are used to explore your own thoughts, ideas, and behaviors and that you are not providing information on how to treat specific individuals. Your references should be used to support your discussion about why working with this population presents an ethical dilemma for you, not to describe the population.
