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Homework

Competencies Measured

By successfully completing this homework, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies:

I. Competency I: Identify ethical, culturally informed, anti-racist, and anti-oppressive strategies that address inherent biases for use in quantitative and qualitative research methods to advance the purposes of social work.

1. Introduce the client, including a description of the client's demographic information and intersectionality.

2. Discuss an appropriate intervention for this client, including two short-term and two long-term goals.

II. Competency II: Apply knowledge of human behavior and person-in-environment, as well as interprofessional conceptual frameworks, to engage with clients and constituencies.

1. Apply key components of ecosystems theory to the assessment, intervention, and evaluation of the chosen case study.

2. Discuss opportunities to integrate this knowledge into social work practice when engaging with clients.

III. Competency III: Incorporate culturally responsive methods to negotiate, mediate, and advocate with and on behalf of clients and constituencies.

1. Assess the client from the person-in-environment perspective.

IV. Competency IV: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for members of the social work profession.

1. Evaluate the strengths and limitations of the intervention plan from an ecosystems perspective.

2. Create a clear, well-organized, professional document that is generally free of errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

Case Study

Levi is a 35-year-old man who is HIV positive. He works as an auto mechanic. Since learning that he was HIV positive 10 years ago, Levi has been on medications that have stopped the progression to AIDS, and Levi is fairly healthy. However, the emotional toll has been much more serious. Levi has withdrawn from most social interactions. He has not told anyone in his family, and he has fallen away from most of his friends. He has been able to obtain a variety of medications for anxiety, and often takes more than the prescribed dosage. In addition, he has had a cocaine habit that he views as his only area of excitement in life. His pattern of use is on weekends, or sometimes as a "pick-me-up" to get to work. He tends to use the anti-anxiety medications in the evening to help him relax and sleep. He sees his life slipping away in what has come to feel like an increasingly empty lifestyle. He calls a counselor to talk about his problems.

Overview

In your previous homework, you identified and analyzed a developmental theory to apply to a case study. In this homework, you will build on the work you have done by analyzing ecosystems theory and deciding on an actual application from a person-in-environment perspective. As with last time, it is vital to support the application of your chosen theory with scholarly research in the Capella University Library.

Case Study Treatment Plan

For your course project, you will choose from Levi, Elisa, Hofsa, or Robert. The clients in the case studies are ethnically diverse and are struggling with a variety of psychosocial issues.

As you read the case studies, consider the following:

I. What factors exist within the client's intersectionality (gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, class, etc.)?

II. What is the developmental stage of the client and what developmental tasks or crises are associated with this age group?

III. Who or what is part of the client's support system?

IV. Systems to consider include family, friends, work, social services, politics, religion, goods and services, and educational systems.

V. What supports would the client benefit from?

VI. What goals would you establish to improve the client's situation?

This is a three-part project. Spending time up front to get a good picture of the client and their issues is time well spent. You may "add" some information about your client but do it in your Theory Identification and Analysis homework and be very specific about what you are adding (more demographic or environmental information).

Instructions

After you have reviewed the Case Study Treatment Plan multimedia activity, compose a paper that includes the following. Visit the Social Work Masters Program (MSW) Library Guide for help researching scholarly sources.

I. Introduce the client.

1. Describe the client's demographic information and intersectionality (gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, class, etc.)

2. Develop a statement of the presenting problem.

II. Research: Apply key components of ecosystems theory to the assessment, intervention, and evaluation of the chosen case study.

1. Use scholarly research to support application of the theory.

III. Assess: Assess the client from the person-in-environment perspective.

1. Consider systems such as family, friends, work, social services, politics, religion, goods and services, and educational systems.

a. Which systems provide or could provide the client with support?
b. Which systems may be hindering the client?

2. Include the client's intersectionality in your assessment.

3. Apply scholarly research to support the discussion.

IV. Intervene: Discuss an appropriate intervention for this client, including two short-term and two long-term goals.

1. Include at least two systems in the short-term and long-term goals.

2. Apply systems theory to justify the chosen intervention.

V. Evaluate: Evaluate the strengths and limitations of the intervention plan from an ecosystems perspective.

1. Evaluate how the intervention plan addresses diversity.

VI. Engage: Discuss opportunities to integrate knowledge of human behavior and person in environment into social work into social work practice when engaging with clients.

1. Apply scholarly research to support the discussion.

2. Discuss engagement strategies needed when working with diverse clients.