SWK-103 SOCIAL WORK & DEVIANT BEHAVIOR

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Lesson 13 Assignment.

Using chapter 8 and your own outside resources (credible websites, not Wikipedia),  minimum 2-page  discussing what major factors you believe leads to deviant behavior. APA format is required. Be sure to cite your sources.

Lesson 14 Discussion

You are working as a social worker in an emergency room of a hospital. Jessica, age 19, has been brought in for physical assault. She discloses to you that her boyfriend came home intoxicated, became angry with her, resulting in him breaking her nose and cracking two of her ribs. While she is reluctant to discuss the history of domestic abuse in her relationship, she does say that this is not the first time, however, it is the worst time. What social work interventions would you utilize to help Jessica?

This discussion should be a minimum of 1 page (250 words).

READING RESOURCES

Chapter 9 of the textbook

A Day in the Life of a Prison Social Worker By Dorlee https://www.socialwork.career/2011/12/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-prison-social-worker.html

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GENERALIST PRACTICE 1; RACE & MINORITY GROUPS & SWK103- Social Work And Deviant Behavior

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SWK208- Generalist Practice I 

Lesson 13 Discussion.

After reviewing the information about termination, please consider the following questions for this discussion post:

· What does a Social Worker need to be aware of when it comes time for termination with a client?

· What would be some of the benefits/challenges to the different types of termination (forced, planned, and unanticipated)?

To receive full credit, you will need to post one substantial post. Each discussion post should be a minimum of 200 words or one page.

READING RESOURCES

Termination of the Social Worker-Client Relationship https://nlcsw.ca/sites/default/files/inline-files/Termination%20of%20the%20Social-Worker%20Client%20Relationship_1.pdf

The Importance of Closure https://www.socialworker.com/feature-articles/practice/The_Importance_of_Closure/

Challenging Endings: https://www.bu.edu/ssw/files/2017/07/Gelman-et-al-Challenging-Endings-First-Year-MSW-Interns-Experiences-with-forced-termination-and-discussion-points-for-supervisory-guidance.pdf

Lesson 14 Discussion.

Please review the readings and consider the following in your response:

· Please share your thoughts about telemental health after reviewing these articles.

· What are some of the benefits and challenges of telemental health?

To receive full credit, you will need to post one substantial post. Each discussion post should be a minimum of 200 words or one page.

Readings:

Telemental Health: Legal Considerations for Social Workers: https://www.socialworkers.org/About/Legal/HIPAA-Help-For-Social-Workers/Telemental-Health

The Continued Growth of Telemental Health; https://www.socialworktoday.com/archive/MA18p18.shtml

SWK103- Social Work and Deviant Behavior

Lesson 14 Discussion

You are working as a social worker in an emergency room of a hospital. Jessica, age 19, has been brought in for physical assault. She discloses to you that her boyfriend came home intoxicated, became angry with her, resulting in him breaking her nose and cracking two of her ribs. While she is reluctant to discuss the history of domestic abuse in her relationship, she does say that this is not the first time, however, it is the worst time. What social work interventions would you utilize to help Jessica?

This discussion should be a minimum of 1 page (200 words).

READING RESOURCES

Chapter 9 of the textbook

A Day in the Life of a Prison Social Worker By Dorlee https://www.socialwork.career/2011/12/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-prison-social-worker.html

Socw 6510 Process Recordings

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TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY AND PROTECTIVE SERVICES

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 able to clarify the purpose of interviews and interventions, identify personal and professional strengths and weaknesses, and improve self-awareness. The process recording is also a useful tool in exploring the interpersonal dynamics and values operating between you and the client system through an analysis of filtering the process used in recording a session.

For this Assignment, you will submit a process recording of your field education experiences specific to this week.

The Assignment: (2-4 pages)

  • Provide a transcript of what happened during your field education experience, including a dialogue of interaction with a client.
  • Explain your interpretation of what occurred in the dialogue, including social work practice or theories, and explain how it might relate to engagement covered this week.
  • Describe your reactions and/or any issues related to your interaction with a client during your field education experience.
  • Explain how you applied social work practice skills when performing the activities during your process recording.

By Day 7

Graduate Writing I: Basic Composition Skills

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Writers often benefit from having a strong support network where they can share their work. For this Assignment, you’ll do just that! By sharing a piece of writing from your other class, you’ll gain even more perspective on your work. You can also use this feedback as you continue to strengthen your writing skills beyond this course.

To prepare for this Assignment:

Choose ONE of the following options:

  • Option 1: Select an upcoming assignment or discussion from the program course you’re currently taking (such as Foundations). Write the first draft of at least 1 page of the assignment or discussion.
  • Option 2: Select a previously submitted assignment or discussion from the program course you’re currently taking  (such as Foundations). Choose a 1-page sample from the assignment or discussion
  • to submit for feedback.
  • Option 3: Select an assignment or discussion you submitted in a previous course. Choose a 1-page  sample from the assignment or discussion to submit for feedback.

SOCW 6090 Assignment: Video Role-Play: Strengths and Weaknesses of the DSM-5

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Assignment: Video Role-Play: Strengths and Weaknesses of the DSM-5

Though the DSM-5 is the standard manual for mental illness diagnoses, it is not without weakness. In this Assignment, you analyze the strengths and limitations of the DSM-5 diagnostic system, and you differentiate between normal behavior and diagnosable symptoms using the concepts of dimensionality and spectrum.

To prepare: Review the concept of the dimensional approach with the DSM-5 and review the methods that the DSM-5 recommends to individualize where a person fits on a continuum of their illness in terms of subtypes, severity, and functional impairments. You will find these classifications in different parts of the manual and begin to be comfortable looking through it.

Next, imagine the following scenario:

You are a school social worker who has been asked to address a parent-teacher association meeting. Many parents in the audience have children who have been identified for special education services. They are confused about how to understand the diagnoses they are seeing. Others have worries about overdiagnosis. You have been advised that while these parents are generally well-informed, many don’t understand the dimensional or spectrum aspects. All are worried.

You will start your video with your introductory talk to the parents on these factors. After you provide your explanation, imagine that you open the meeting to questions. You will address the question noted below that is posed by a parent in the audience. Consider your audience, and practice explaining in terms a non-professional might understand. Do NOT read from the book.

Review the questions (in the Assignment instructions below) ahead of time and plan your answer before recording, as you will need to look up and integrate materials to answer the chosen question.

https://dsm.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.books.9780890425596.Introduction

https://www.socialworker.com/feature-articles/ethics-articles/dsm-5-and-ethics-of-diagnosis/

By Day 7

Submit a 3- to 5-minute video, considering the parents as your audience, in which you do the following:

  • Briefly describe what the DSM-5 is and how it is organized. In your description, define the concepts of spectrum and dimensionality as explained by Paris and in the DSM-5 introduction.
  • Explain why social workers and mental health professionals use diagnoses and what receiving a diagnosis means (and does not mean).
  • Explain general concerns about the risks of overdiagnosis and misdiagnosis versus not diagnosing. Also explain how diagnosis is connected to services.
  • Explain other details that might help your audience understand the strengths and weaknesses of the diagnostic system.
  • Provide a response to the following parental questions:
    • My teenager’s best friend died by suicide this year. It’s been months, and she doesn’t seem over it. Her teachers tell me she should get help for depression, but I think it’s just grief. She talks about her friend all the time and gets very upset. I am worried about her. Is it normal for her to still be feeling this way? I don’t want to put her on medication for normal feelings. What is the difference between grief and depression?

RELATIONAL COMMUNICATION

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What Makes a Good Relationship Good

Choose two of the following prompts and write 750-1,000 words for each prompt. For each prompt, you will need to choose a different theory or set of concepts to address that come from class readings or lectures/discussions throughout the semester.

1. If people only knew [communication theory/concept], then they would have enduringly good workplace relationships.

2. If people only knew [communication theory/concept], then they would have enduringly good romantic relationships.

3. If people only knew [communication theory/concept], then they would have enduringly good friendships.

4. If people only knew [communication theory/concept], then they would have enduringly good family relationships.

Six scholarly references needed (three for each section).

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite to check for plagiarism.

STUDY MATERIALS

Read Chapters 13-14 in Reflect & Relate: An Introduction to Interpersonal Communication.

URL:https://www.gcumedia.com/digital-resources/bedford-freeman-and-worth/2018/reflect-and-relate_an-introduction-to-interpersonal-communication_5e.php

Read “Computer-Mediated Communication With Distant Friends: Relations With Adjustment During Students’ First Semester in College,” by Ranney & Troop-Gordon, from Journal of Educational Psychology (2012).

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Read “Associations Between Online Friendship and Internet Addiction Among Adolescents and Emerging Adults,” by Smahel, Brown, & Blinka, from Developmental Psychology (2012).

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Read “In the Eye of the Beholder: Perceived, Actual, and Peer-Rated Similarity in Personality, Communication, and Friendship Intensity During the Acquaintanceship Process,” by Selfhout, Denissen, Branje, & Meeus, from Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (2009).

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For additional information, the following is recommended: “From the Love of Friends to the Love of Strangers: Reflections on Friendship and Discipleship” by Toth, from Baptistic Theologies (2015).

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For additional information, the following is recommended: “Where Is the Love? The Disruptive Possibilities of Women’s Friendships as Participation in the Triune God” by Chilton Thompson, from Perspectives in Religious Studies (2018).

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For additional information, the following is recommended: “Friends Without Benefits: Understanding the Dark Sides of Workplace Friendship” by Pillemer, & Rothbard, from Academy of Management Review (2018).

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For additional information, the following is recommended: “How Remote Workers Make Work Friends” by Schinoff, Ashforth, & Corley, from Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (2019).

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Activism

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Refer to at least three learning resources in your response to this topic. You may draw your references from the learning resources assigned for any week of this course:

  • Of all the issues we learned about in class concerning women’s issues, which did you find the most important? Why did you choose this issue? What do you see as the future of this issue in terms of gender equality and feminism?
  • What have you learned that you will take with you outside this classroom? Is there anything you will share with others?

Original Post: Provide your initial post which responds to the Discussion prompt by 11:59 pm on Friday. Initial question responses posted after Friday but before the end of the class week on Tuesday earn a maximum of 70/80 possible points for the original post. Your initial post should be at least 250-300 words in length, excluding the discussion prompt and the references. Posts should engage meaningfully with at least three assigned learning resources. 

We should all be feminist – https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_we_should_all_be_feminists

NBCNews. (2020, July 23). AOC slams Rep. Yoho in House floor speech, says ‘having a daughter does not make a man decent’ [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSZcdMCHn2o

COVID-19 and its economic toll on women: The story behind the numbers. (2020, September 16). UN Women. https://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2020/9/feature-covid-19-economic-impacts-on-women

Hasanagic, A. (n.d.). 25 organizations fighting for gender equality. Human Rights Careers Magazine. https://www.humanrightscareers.com/magazine/organizations-gender-equality/

Critiquing The Findings Section Of A Research Report

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300 words

Select a research article from a social work journal. Critique the Discussion or Recommendations Section by addressing the following:

  1. Identify the recommendations in the discussion section as follows:
    • Identify each recommendation.
    • Identify the specific finding, if any, that supports each recommendation.
    • In your opinion, decide if each recommendation is adequately supported by a specific finding. If it is not, why not.
  2. Are the limitations of the study discussed? What are these limitations?
  3. What recommendations were useful to you as a social worker?

Medical Ethics Discussion – Organ Transplant

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All discussion postings must be at least 300 words in length and written in paragraph format using APA 7th edition (including in-text citations and a reference list). Use the MEAL plan (Main idea, Evidence, Analysis, and Link (conclusion)) to structure your post.

The topic of discussion:

Organ transplant procedures are used to replace missing organs or organs that may be in acute or total failure. The main issue with organ transplants arises when we think of whom we get these organs from, and who will receive the organs. In the medical world, we must choose who receives the organ over another person. This becomes highly difficult because we are theoretically saying that one person’s life is worth more than the next which is why they can get a new set of lungs but not their neighbor.

  • Does a person in need of an organ transplant have a moral right to obtain that transplant, supposing the availability of the needed organ?
  • How should we choose who gets a transplant, supposing that there are not enough organs for all who need them?

Current and Future Economic Issues Impacting the Health Care Sector

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Current and Future Economic Issues Impacting the Health Care Sector

Overview
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Instructions

Provide a review of these issues in a 10–12 in which you:

  1. Provide a detailed description of the issues that you have researched.
  2. Analyze the most significant economic effects of the researched issues on the health care industry. Provide at least two examples of these issues to support your response.
  3. Suggest specific strategies that relevant entities/stakeholders may use to address the selected issues from an economic perspective. Justify your response.
  4. Determine the strategic manner in which the United States can apply best economic best practices from other countries in addressing these issues.
  5. Assess the likelihood of the government and or private sector effectively addressing the issues.
  6. Use at least ten current references. Five of these references must be from current peer-reviewed sources to support and substantiate your comments and perspectives.