MSW6101 v3: Advanced Social Work with Children and Families
Week 1 - Assignment 1:
Apply Research-Informed Practice for Children who have Experienced Trauma
Instructions
Social workers know the principles of logic, scientific inquiry, and culturally informed and ethical approaches to building knowledge. Social workers understand that evidence that informs practice derives from multi-disciplinary sources and multiple ways of knowing. They also understand the processes for translating research findings into effective practice. Conduct research to investigate evidence-informed practice for children who have experienced trauma. Highlight the results of your investigation and how you will integrate them into your practice. Make sure you are demonstrating how social workers are knowledgeable about evidence-informed interventions to achieve the goals of clients and constituencies, including individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
Length: 3-5 pages, not including title and reference pages
Your assignment should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards where appropriate. Be sure to adhere to Northcentral University's Academic Integrity Policy.
MSW6101 v3: Advanced Social Work with Children and Families
Week 2 - Assignment:
Provide Techniques for Working with Children who have Experienced Trauma
Instructions
Develop a training presentation that could be used to assist new social workers in the field working with children who have been abused. Include the following in your narrated PowerPoint:
Model evidence-informed crisis counseling techniques to demonstrate that social workers are knowledgeable about evidence-informed interventions to achieve the goals of clients and constituencies, including individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities..
Explain specific treatments for children who have been abused/neglected or experienced trauma.
Recommend specific community resources from your local community or state with specific services for children who are abused/neglected or experienced trauma to demonstrate your understanding of ways in which social workers value the importance of interprofessional teamwork and communication in interventions, recognizing that beneficial outcomes may require interdisciplinary, interprofessional, and inter-organizational collaboration.
Incorporate appropriate animations, transitions, and graphics as well as speaker notes for each slide. The speaker notes may be comprised of brief paragraphs or bulleted lists and should cite material appropriately. Add audio to each slide using the Media section of the Insert tab in the top menu bar for each slide.
Support your presentation with at least three scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources may be included.
Length: 12-15 slides (with a separate reference slide)
Notes Length: 100-150 words for each slide
Be sure to include citations for quotations and paraphrases with references in APA format and style where appropriate. Save the file as PPT with the correct course code information.
MSW6101 v3: Advanced Social Work with Children and Families
Week 3 - Assignment 1:
Conduct an Investigation of Regulations and Mandatory Reporting Responsibilities
Instructions
Social workers understand the value base of the profession and its ethical standards, as well as relevant laws and regulations that may impact practice at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels. Your assignment this week is to prepare an informational memorandum for newly hired social workers in your state. Practicing social workers must understand the requirements for identifying abuse or neglect and how to report instances.
In your pamphlet, outline the regulations and requirements for the state in which you live or intend to practice specific to mandatory reporting. Next, identify the types of neglect and abuse social workers must be aware of when working with clients. Be sure to include types that impact vulnerable populations. Document how social workers should report these cases to the correct agencies.
Support your assignment with at least three scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including seminal articles, may be included.
Length: 3-5 pages, not including title and reference pages
Your assignment should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards. Be sure to adhere to Northcentral University's Academic Integrity Policy.
MSW6101 v3: Advanced Social Work with Children and Families
Week 3 – Assignment 2:
Develop and Explain your Self-care Plan as a Strategy for Demonstrating Ethical and Professional Behavior
Instructions
Social workers recognize personal values and the distinction between personal and professional values. They also understand how their personal experiences and affective reactions influence their professional judgment and behavior. Social workers must also use reflection and self-regulation to manage personal values and maintain professionalism in practice situations. For this second assignment, submit a Video Note in NCUOne to your professor. Develop your own self-care plan to deal with secondary trauma. Explain the techniques you can utilize to deal with physical, emotional, and behavioral signs that you might experience from dealing with trauma and what you can do to avoid burnout. Discuss how you would use supervision and consultation to guide professional judgement and behavior specifically around issues related to applying self-awareness and self-regulation to manage the influence of personal biases and values in working with diverse clients and constituencies.
To create a video note, select the Record video option in the assignment submission area. You will need your webcam to complete this video. Press the New Recording button when you are ready to record your video note and the Stop Recording when finished. Click the Add button to include the video in your assignment submission. Note, the Video Note tool records a maximum of 3 minutes. If necessary, plan to divide your video into multiple segments.
Alternate assignment: If you do not have access to a webcam, prepare a 1 to 2-page paper of a transcript for a mock podcast that addresses the same topics noted above.
MSW6101 v3: Advanced Social Work with Children and Families
Week 4 - Assignment 1:
Interpret Ethical Issues and Apply Ethical Decision-Making in Work with Adolescents
Instructions
Assume you were asked to deliver a presentation during the next required continuing education course for licensure. Your topic is working with high-risk adolescents. Prepare a voice-over PowerPoint presentation for the course. Begin by identifying the ethical dilemma for each of the following issues from the Social Work Code of Ethics. Develop a response to the issue and explain a model for ethical decision-making you would consider as a social worker. You must demonstrate an understanding of theories of human behavior and the social environment, and critically evaluate and apply this knowledge in the assessment of diverse clients and constituencies, including individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities specific to methods of assessment with diverse clients and constituencies to advance practice effectiveness. Be sure to integrate content that demonstrates how social workers understand that evidence that informs practice derives from multi-disciplinary sources and multiple ways of knowing. They also understand the processes for translating research findings into effective practice. Consider the role of technology to ethically and appropriately facilitate practice outcomes. As social workers must engage in collaborative interventions for clients, be sure to critique the effectiveness of the collaborative efforts in each case.
You are a social worker in a high school, assigned to a team to prevent HIV and STDs. The school system recently approved a policy that condoms can be distributed only with written parental consent. This morning, a male student asked you for some condoms.
Doreen, a 13-year-old Hispanic youth, has a history of running away and drug and alcohol experimentation. Her parents seem warm and accepting and want to help her. Near the end of your session, she confides in you that her step brother has been making sexual advances toward her. When she told her mother, she was told to forget it and that he was just a teenage boy. As the social worker, you realize that this interview should not be terminated, but you have another client waiting.
Jimmy is a passive deeply disturbed early adolescent who lives in a residential facility for troubled youth. At times, he has had to be protected from other adolescents who bully him and take advantage of him. Jimmy is ready to be moved to a less restrictive home owned by the agency you work for. There is a more appropriate foster home he could move to, but you are told to have him remain at the residential facility even though there are older, more aggressive youth. The foster home is not owned by the agency and the staff wants to keep their numbers up in the residential facility.
Incorporate appropriate animations, transitions, and graphics as well as speaker notes for each slide. The speaker notes may be comprised of brief paragraphs or bulleted lists and should cite material appropriately. Add audio to each slide using the Media section of the Insert tab in the top menu bar for each slide.
Support your presentation with at least three scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources may be included.
Length: 12-15 slides (with a separate reference slide)
Notes Length: 100-150 words for each slide
Be sure to include citations for quotations and paraphrases with references in APA format and style where appropriate. Save the file as PPT with the correct course code information.
MSW6101 v3: Advanced Social Work with Children and Families
Week 4 – Assignment 2:
Provide a Suicide Prevention Plan for an Adolescent Integrating Evidence-based Best Practices
Instructions
Your presentation went so well during the continuing education course that you were asked to prepare a pamphlet for adolescents and their families on suicide prevention. Your pamphlet will be available internally as well as to other agencies in which collaborative teams are formed.
In your pamphlet, model the components of a suicide prevention plan for work with adolescents. Document what adolescents must do, along with responsibilities of the caregivers.
Support your assignment with at least two scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including seminal articles, may be included.
Length: 2-3 pages, not including title and reference pages
Your assignment should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards where appropriate. Be sure to adhere to Northcentral University's Academic Integrity Policy.
MSW6101 v3: Advanced Social Work with Children and Families
Week 5 - Assignment:
Explain Treatment for an Adolescent Experiencing a Mental Disorder who Belongs to a Marginalized Population
Instructions
Social workers recognize that the dimensions of diversity are understood as the intersectionality of multiple factors including but not limited to age, class, color, culture, disability and ability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, immigration status, marital status, political ideology, race, religion/spirituality, sex, sexual orientation, and tribal sovereign status. Select an adolescent from a vulnerable and/or diverse population who is experiencing the onset of a mental illness disorder. In a written report, describe your assessment and plan for evidenced based interventions.
Include a diagnosis based on DSM-5 guidelines as well as any additional information you would consider to determine whether or not you should recommend hospitalization. Be sure to explain the influence of personal values that come in to play when engaging in diversity and difference in practice when working with this specific populations.
Include your insights related to understanding that, as a consequence of difference, a person’s life experiences may include oppression, poverty, marginalization, and alienation as well as privilege, power, and acclaim.
Determine how your personal examination of values could help other social workers assist clients with the same diagnosis, or who belong to the same vulnerable and/or diverse population.
Finally, be sure to include content related to knowledge about evidence-informed interventions to achieve the goals of clients and constituencies. Social workers understand theories of human behavior and the social environment, and critically evaluate and apply this knowledge to effectively intervene with clients and constituencies by analyzing and implementing evidence-informed interventions to achieve client and constituency goals.
Support your assignment with at least three scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including seminal articles, may be included.
Length: 5-7 pages, not including title and reference pages
Your assignment should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards. Be sure to adhere to Northcentral University's Academic Integrity Policy.
MSW6101 v3: Advanced Social Work with Children and Families
Week 6 - Assignment:
Illustrate the Proper use of the EBP Wraparound Model
Instructions
Social workers understand that evidence that informs practice derives from multi-disciplinary sources and multiple ways of knowing. They also understand the processes for translating research findings into effective practice. Social workers understand theories of human behavior and the social environment, and critically evaluate and apply this knowledge to effectively intervene with clients and constituencies. Social workers understand methods of identifying, analyzing and implementing evidence-informed interventions to achieve client and constituency goals. Develop a guide for families to utilize that includes all of the five child-serving systems: mental health, school, juvenile justice, health care, and child welfare. Explain what families must know about the various systems.
Determine what information they should include in preparation for a joint meeting with representatives from the systems involved with their child.
Analyze any related jurisdictional regulations and standards for ethical implementation of the Wraparound process.
Identify who they could invite to be their advocate in the meeting and where they might find such a person. How would this help the collaboration process?
Support your assignment with at least three scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including seminal articles, may be included.
Length: 5-7 pages, not including title and reference pages
Your assignment should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards. Be sure to adhere to Northcentral University's Academic Integrity Policy.
MSW6101 v3: Advanced Social Work with Children and Families
Week 7 - Assignment:
Evaluate Best Practices in working with Victims of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)
Instructions
Social workers providing services to vulnerable populations must apply their understanding of social, economic, and environmental justice to advocate for human rights at the individual and system levels; and also engage in practices that advance social, economic, and environmental justice. Social workers also understand that every person regardless of position in society has fundamental human rights such as freedom, safety, privacy, an adequate standard of living, health care, and education. Conduct an interview with a professional in your community who works at a shelter, an agency/organization specifically for victims of intimate partner violence, or an advocacy organization. Be sure to discuss the following and take notes during your conversation:
Determine the available community resources for victims and any resource that may be lacking.
Identify the assessment process and any screenings conducted; be sure to include that Social workers are knowledgeable about theories of human need and social justice and strategies to promote social and economic justice and human rights.
Analyze the intersection of cultural and social factors that may impact how domestic violence is addressed.
Prepare a write up of your interview based on the above criteria. Include in your write up your personal values that may influence your work with individuals who have experienced IPV.
Support your assignment with at least three scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including seminal articles, may be included.
Length: 3-5 pages, not including title and reference pages
Your assignment should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards. Be sure to adhere to Northcentral University's Academic Integrity Policy.
MSW6101 v3: Advanced Social Work with Children and Families
Week 8 - Signature Assignment:
Develop a Treatment Plan for a Family Inclusive of Human Need and Social Justice Strategies
Instructions
Social workers understand methods of assessment with diverse clients and constituencies to advance practice effectiveness and understand theories of human behavior and the social environment, and critically evaluate and apply this knowledge to effectively intervene with clients and constituencies. Social workers understand the global interconnections of oppression and human rights violations, and are knowledgeable about theories of human need and social justice and strategies to promote social and economic justice and human rights. Social workers understand strategies designed to eliminate oppressive structural barriers to ensure that social goods, rights, and responsibilities are distributed equitably and that civil, political, environmental, economic, social, and cultural human rights are protected. Choose one of the following family vignettes and create a thorough treatment plan which illustrates the intersectionality of the above factors. Include at least six long-term goals. Develop at least five objectives and six interventions for each long-term goal. Be sure to include any sub-system work needed and work with other agencies.
The Juarez family is comprised of three children: Juan, age 15; Jesus, age 12; and Sarah, age 5. The parents are originally from Mexico and have had all three children here since they immigrated 16 years ago. They are still in the process of obtaining citizenship. They struggle with making ends meet and both parents speak limited English. Jesus has been experiencing mood problems at school and angers easily. He often gets into fights and is on probation for assault. He is quiet most of the time and is having trouble sleeping. The other two children are doing fine, but the parents are concerned that Sarah is overly anxious. The parents do not always agree on discipline as Mr. Juarez believes that spanking with a board is appropriate, and they have been reported to Child Protective Services for abuse. The family is strong in its faith and regularly attends Catholic Mass. The family has been referred to you through Child Protective Services.
The Smith family is a blended family with five children. The father, John, has three children from a previous marriage: Josh, age 10; Emily, age 7; and June, age 5. Their step-mother (Becky) has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals most of her life. Becky’s second husband has been accused of sexually abused their two girls while she battled substance abuse and mental illness. The father was notified by Child Services once the girls told their aunt, and he has custody of them at this time. Becky’s divorce was problematic, and she has a strained relationship with her ex-husband. She and her stepson Josh have heated arguments and she suspects he has been using drugs and alcohol. She is very controlling and consistently argues with teachers and other authority figures about how to interact with her stepson. Both John and Becky work full-time and struggle with poverty and are afraid of the court costs that could occur from the sexual abuse charges. They live in a rural town. They have self-referred to you for parent-child problems concerning Becky and her stepson Josh.
The Bell family consists of a single mom raising her two sons. They have just moved from a family shelter as Mrs. Bell has left an abusive husband. Her eldest is Sam, age 15 and her youngest is Joe, who is 12. They are African American. She works part time at two jobs to make ends meet. Sam experienced a lot of mixed feelings lately regarding his sexuality, but does not want anyone to know. He is bullied at school and does not have any friends. He does not like sports, but does prefer drama class. He is failing in most of his classes. He often masturbates while thinking about other boys and has viewed a few gay websites. His mother is unaware of his struggles; she just thinks he is depressed. Joe has also had problems with his peers and they have been picked up by the police for vandalism on several occasions. She is unsure what to do to help her boys and is not sure about therapy. The family has been referred to you by the school.
Support your assignment with at least five scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including seminal articles, may be included.
Length: 10-12 pages, not including title and reference pages
Your assignment should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards. Be sure to adhere to Northcentral University's Academic Integrity Policy.
