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Risk and resiliency paper
Hutchison summarizes social work research that has focused on risk, protection, and resilience to understand human behavior. Research has documented correlates between specific risk/protective factors and various problems. The biopsychosocial-spiritual framework helps social workers to conceptualize risk and protective factors in all domains of a person's life. The purpose of this assignment is to convey an understanding of the concepts of risk and resiliency, integrate a biopsychosocial-spiritual assessment of a client or person known to you,
and identify evidence-based intervention that may improve the client's resiliency.
Assignment Instructions:
• Choose a current or past client from your field placement or professional agency; be sure to protect confidentiality by changing names and other identifying information. If you have never worked with a client before, you may choose someone you know or a famous character or celebrity.
• Briefly, define the concepts of risk and protective factors and resiliency. Explain the relevance of these concepts to social work practice.
• Briefly, describe the agency in which you encountered this person, the reason he/she was seeking services, and necessary demographic information to help the reader "know" the client.
• The bulk of the paper should then consist of a biopsychosocial-spiritual assessment of the client, with a particular focus on the risk and protective factors that are evident in his/her life. Be sure to assess each domain in the person's life.
o Identify the risk and protective factors present regardless of whether or not they are currently impacting or have had an impact on the individual's life. Discuss overall well-being and potential functioning over the life course if the current trajectory continues.
o This section of your paper should also include peer-reviewed sources to document why you categorized these client characteristics as risk or protective factors.
• Identify any social and economic injustices that the client may have experienced as risk or protective factors. Again, use peer-reviewed sources to document why you believe these factors would promote or decrease resiliency.
• Provide a brief conclusion
Additional criteria:
• The paper must be in APA format and include properly formatted title page and reference list. An abstract is not needed.
• You must use at least 3 peer-reviewed articles. You may use other properly cited resources such as the textbook and legitimate, professional websites, but these will not count towards the 3- article requirement.