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Learning Components
This activity will help you achieve the following learning components:

Examine approaches to clinical practice.
Examine approaches to cultural competence in social work practice.

Case History
Assignment Overview
Case histories are a means for social workers to describe a specified individual's mental health disorder and provide the individual's family history as context. This skill is an important component of advanced generalist practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.

In today's society, there is vast cultural diversity. Diversity is no longer defined by race, but it includes lifestyles, sexuality, gender, religion, socioeconomic status, health, geographic regions, ethnicity, and more. As a leader within the social work arena, we often need to identify strengths-based strategies and empowerment strategies to address cultural competency in these diverse groups.

By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following EPAS and specialized practices:

Competency 6: Engage with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.
C6.SP.A: Apply critical thinking and decision making in verbal and written communication through the use of leadership and technology when engaging with colleagues, individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
Related Assignment Criteria:
3. Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for leaders of the social work profession through the use of technology.
C6.SP.B: Apply and integrate theories of human behavior and the social environment in the specialization of advanced generalist practice when engaging with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
Related Assignment Criteria:
1. Describe a specified individual's mental health disorder.
2. Describe the individual's family history.
3. Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for leader of the social work profession through the use of technology.
Competency 7: Assess Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.
C7.SP.A: Apply critical thinking and decision making in verbal and written communication through the use of leadership and technology when assessing colleagues, individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
Related Assignment Criteria:
3. Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for leaders of the social work profession through the use of technology.
C7.SP.B: Apply and integrate theories of human behavior and the social environment in the specialization of advanced generalist practice when assessing individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
Related Assignment Criteria:
1. Describe a specified individual's mental health disorder.
2. Describe the individual's family history.
3. Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for leader of the social work profession through the use of technology.
C7.SP.D: (Assess) Apply assessment instruments, leadership, technology, critical thinking, and interpersonal skills to identify problems, and assess and analyze capacities, strengths, and needs of individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
Related Assignment Criteria:
1. Describe a specified individual's mental health disorder.
2. Describe the individual's family history.
Competency 8: Intervene with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.
C8.SP.A: Apply critical thinking and decision making in verbal and written communication through the use of leadership and technology when intervening with colleagues, individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
Related Assignment Criteria:
3. Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for leaders of the social work profession through the use of technology.
C8.SP.B: Apply and integrate theories of human behavior and the social environment in the specialization of advanced generalist practice when intervening with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
Related Assignment Criteria:
1. Describe a specified individual's mental health disorder.
2. Describe the individual's family history.
3. Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for leader of the social work profession through the use of technology.
Competency 9: Evaluate Practice with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.
C9.SP.A: Apply critical thinking and decision making in verbal and written communication through the use of leadership and technology evaluations with colleagues, individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
Related Assignment Criteria:
3. Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for leaders of the social work profession through the use of technology.
C9.SP.B: Apply and integrate theories of human behavior and the social environment in the specialization of advanced generalist practice evaluation with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
Related Assignment Criteria:
1. Describe a specified individual's mental health disorder.
2. Describe the individual's family history.
3. Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for leader of the social work profession through the use of technology.

Assignment Description
For the first assignment of your course project, you will write a detailed individual and family case history as part of an assessment. Please keep in mind that this first component will serve as the basis for the rest of your course project. The more developed your initial case history, the easier it will be to develop your Comprehensive Case Study for the final project.

You were provided with four possible case studies in the Unit 1 studies. If you have not done so already, choose one of the case studies to work with throughout your course project.

Assignment Instructions
Use the Case Study Template media piece in the Course Resources to complete an individual assessment, including:

Description of the individual's mental health history. (C6.SP.B, C7.SP.B, C7.SP.D, C8.SP.B, C9.SP.B)
Identifying Information.
Referral Source.
Presenting Problem.
History of Problem.
Previous Counseling Experience.
Description of the individual's family history. (C6.SP.B, C7.SP.B, C7.SP.D, C8.SP.B, C9.SP.B)
Description of the individual's personal history. (C6.SP.B, C7.SP.B, C8.SP.B, C9.SP.B)
Medical History.
Educational History.
Social Class.
Cultural History.
Spirituality.
Mental Status or Current Functional Exam. (C7.SP.D)
References.
As you complete the Case Study Template media piece based on one of the provided case studies, use your text and the DSM-5 as guides as well as one of the assessment tools from this unit's studies:

The guidelines for the mental status exam on pages 50-51 of Clinical Social Work Practice. Use questions 1-14 for the interview.
One of the tools provided in the American Psychiatric Association's Online Assessment Measures (link in the Resources) for diagnostic assessment tools and resources.
When you have completed the template, follow the instructions to generate a document. Be sure to check it for accuracy before turning it in for your instructor to review.