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  updated APA CITATION and references. 
Review the Learning Resources on social work practice with children, interventions, and countertransference.
Consider a scenario in which transference and countertransference could arise during an intervention with a child. As the social worker in the scenario, how would you address these phenomena?
 Explain why transference and countertransference are so common when working with children. Then, describe a specific scenario in which transference and countertransference might arise while intervening with a child. How would you address both transference and countertransference in your work with the child client in the scenario? Explain your strategies. 
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
 

 
Reputation – How often are bone marrow transplants needed?  How likely is it that others in the community will need and request a  bone marrow transplant? 

 
Submit a 2page proposal that addresses the following: 
Provide a brief synopsis of the social problem you selected in Week 2. 
Provide a brief synopsis of the policy you selected in Week 4. 
Explain your selection of a policy—why, as a policy advocate, did you select this specific policy to promote change regarding the social problem?  
Identify the person or group who enacted the policy and explain their motivation or reason for advocating for this policy. How does the reason differ from your own advocacy and change goals? 
Describe the ways in which the policy impacts the populations and discuss the consequences—intended and unintended. Hint: Build on your answer to the following part of your Week 4 Assignment: 

Explain how this policy affects clients you might see in a clinical setting and why, as a clinical social worker, it would be important to advocate for change.

Describe your initial work to change the policy (i.e., plan for social advocacy). 
Be sure to incorporate the sources you found using standard APA format.

 
Submit a 1- to 2-page paper in which you:
Describe how you would measure the outcomes that you identified in Discussion.

Specifically, identify the two best measurement instruments that you would use and explain why. 
Include strengths and limitations, and consider criteria such as usefulness, validity, reliability, precision, feasibility, and cost. 

Describe how you would collect the data and what you would expect to learn from it. 
Use the Learning Resources and peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles to support your paper. Make sure to include appropriate APA citations and a reference list.  
 
Test databases
Search for tests that will capture the data you’re interested in. Full text of the tests may not be immediately available through the databases. Discovering the best test for your needs is your first step. Once you have chosen a test, you can learn where to find the full text.

APA PsycTestsAPA PsycTests contains access to unpublished (not commercially available) psychological tests, measures, scales, surveys, and other assessments. Each record contains reliability and validity, scope, implementation, and an overview when available. Most records also contain the full text of the instrument.

Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)The Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) database provides information about approximately 15,000 measurement instruments. The full text instruments are NOT included in HaPI. Instead this database is used to discover instruments on a topic, track the history of an instrument over time, and find publisher information.

Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in PrintMental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print contains reviews of over 3,000 commercially available, English language testing instruments. Reviews contain information about the reliability, validity, and publication details of the testing instruments. A score index that allows users to easily identify what is being measured in individual tests and bibliographic information is also included. Testing instruments fall into many categories such as psychological tests, career inventories, intelligence and aptitude, and personality. There are no full text testing instruments in this database.

Tests & Measures Combined Search 

Search all three Library test databases simultaneously: Mental Measurements Yearbook in Print, PsycTests, and Health and Psychosocial Instruments. Search results will contain information about both published (commercial) and unpublished (noncommercial) instruments.

Types of tests
Tests and measures are tools that can be used for diagnosing, researching, and assessing phenomena in the social sciences, education, and health, and other areas.
Instruments are either published or unpublished.  
Published
When we talk about tests being published that means that they are owned by, and available through, commercial publishers. These tests need to be purchased from the publisher. Published tests are also referred to as commercial.
Unpublished
When we say that a test is unpublished this doesn’t mean that it is unavailable in print; it means that it is not a test that you will find through commercial publishers.  Unpublished tests often appear in journal articles, books, and dissertations. Unpublished tests are also referred to as non-commercial.
Test types
Assessments
Interviews
Inventories
Measurement
Measures
Questionnaires
Ratings
Scales
Surveys
Tests

 
Submit a 1-page paper analyzing the child intervention you have chosen: (Cognitive behavioral therapy) 
Why did you select the intervention? 
Why might it be especially helpful for use with children? 
What challenges or limitations might there be for this intervention? 
Use the Learning Resources to support your Assignment. Make sure to provide APA citations and a reference list. 
Note: As an advanced practice social worker, it is assumed that issues in the environment have been addressed. Now your interventions should be looking at theoretical modalities that are appropriate for the population.

 Respond to at least two colleagues by providing respectful feedback on their goal and measurable outcomes. Evaluate whether your colleagues have included all three properties of measurability (performance, conditions, and criteria). If they have not, suggest how they may include an additional property. 
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Briefly describe the overarching aim/goal of your proposed program.
The overarching goal related to my proposed program is to keep people in their homes and communities by exploring ways to increase direct care supports and alternatives to those face-face supports. This goal will also reduce the financial burdens to communities by housing those who are aging and disabled in the community, as alternatives to nursing home/institutions placements.
Select two outcomes from your program-level logic model and write them in a sentence format that includes performance, conditions, and criteria. 
The agency will identify how many clients qualify for medically necessary services but cannot access services due to lack of providers by 12/31/24.
The agency will interview one electronic/remote DSP provider option weekly for two months to identify three options for service delivery.
Explain how these outcomes would support the overarching aim/goal of the program.
The outcomes assess how many clients within the agency do not receive the required supports needed. This collection of data will highlight the issues with the program and justify the need to explore other alternatives. The data would also prove the direct line to correlate how many direct cares staff are needed to fit the needs of the clients. Dudley (2020) discussed that practice and program goals having the ability to have the same goal, tend to be effective when interrelated.  These outcomes aim to address the problem and structural format for how the program is delivered, making it functional and accessible. Remote services increase the healthcare workers ability to meet the needs without being physically present (Haleem et al., 2021).  
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Briefly describe the overarching aim/goal of your proposed program. 
The goal of the trauma-informed care program for at-risk youth is to improve youths emotional, behavioral, and mental well-being.  The ability to effectively regulate emotions is thus a crucial element of wellbeing and functioning, perhaps more importantly for youth given that brain structures involved in regulating behavioral expression of emotions are the last to mature (Bell & McBride, 2010).This program will provide the youth with the ability to feel safe and supportive. The aim will also be to help the youth develop and build their coping skills, while also recovering from the negative effects of trauma. In addition, this program can help families, and the community build strong connections. 
Select two outcomes from your program-level logic model and write them in a sentence format that includes performance, conditions, and criteria.  
Within 6 months of participation in the program the youth will demonstrate improved emotional regulation. 75% of participants showed increased emotional awareness and coping skills. This was assessed using pre- and post- program standardized assessments such as emotional regulation questionnaire. Within 6 months of participation 80% of participants will become more engaged in their academic schoolwork which will be measured by self-report data. The youth will improve their grade by at least one letter grade. 
Explain how these outcomes would support the overarching aim/goal of the program. 
These outcomes support the aim and goal of the program because if the youth feel safe and connected to their educational environment it can facilitate less stress, anxiety, and overall improve mental health.  The way individuals regulate their emotions has an influence on their mental wellbeing and functioning (Chang et al., 2023). Emotional regulation skills can help the youth build positive relationships and reduce behaviors.  

 Respond to two colleagues and explain how their assessments reflect the NASW Code of Ethics. Include two values and/or guiding principles to support your explanation.
Use the Learning Resources to support your posts. Make sure to provide APA citations and a reference list.
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Physical Well-Being and Health:
Currently, Magda is an 81-year-old woman who recently broke her hip and suffers from chronic pain because of this (Hung et al., 2019). She was recently diagnosed with dementia which is negatively impacting her cognitive ability. I would want to know how her mobility is, and if she is going to physical therapy to regain movement. I would also want to know her typical daily meals, and ensure she is receiving proper nutrition. 
Cognitive capacity:
Magda has recently been diagnosed with dementia which will negatively impact her decision-making abilities and memory. It raises the question whether Magda will be able to take care of herself independently. It will be important to monitor her cognitive status and as her memory declines, adjust her plan as necessary. 
Social functioning: 
Since she broke her hip, Magda has limited ability to leave the house, which has significantly decreased her social activities. Her children seem supportive of her, and her grandson did move in with her, though this caused more strain on her. I would want to ask her what activities she enjoys doing with her children and who her support person is when she is upset. I would also want to know about her church activities. 
Physical environment: 
I would want to look at the accessibility in Magda’s apartment, and if we could make modifications to help prevent falls (e.g., tripping hazards, grab bars, electric chair to get up easier). I would ask her if there were any areas in her home that make her uncomfortable or that she doesn’t feel safe in. 
Assessment of family caregivers: 
Currently, they have her grandson Alec as her caregiver. He recently has been caught stealing money and pills from Magda to help support his substance use disorder. It raises the question what level of care he was providing her, and how often Magda would go without her medications or food because she did not want to be a bother. As she also said he was never home. Helen and John initially helped Magda pay for a caregiver, but realized they could not afford to have someone come into the home more. Helen wanted to hide the missing money and pills from Magda and wanted to keep this information from her husband and the police. Her plan was to remove valuables and medications from the home. I would want to talk with Magda and explain everything that happened and file a report again Alec. I would ask John and Magda what supports they feel that they need to make this situation more manageable. 
Psychological weel-being and health:
Magda feels that she is a burden, these feelings may lead to depression or anxiety, and because of her limited capability of leaving the home, social isolation. I would want to ask her what activities she does enjoy doing, and how she feels about her current living situation. 
Ability to perform ADLs:
Magda struggles with performing daily care tasks (e.g., dressing, toileting, bathing, etc.). Magda cannot drive which limits her ability to attend appointments and social functioning’s. It will be important to ask the family what their plans to assist and monitor Magda on a daily basis would be. This maybe a good time to have a conversation surrounding assisted living or a nursing home for Magda (Hung et al., 2019). 
While conducting this assessment, to help with Magda’s self-determination, it will be important to gain informed consent (Tampi, 2020). If Magda is not capable of making these decisions for herself, we should find out if she has a medical power of attorney, if not we would want to establish someone. We also should empower Magda throughout our conversations with her, to make her feel that she is in charge of her treatment plan (e.g., what activities she enjoys, her social interactions, etc.). We will also need to ensure we are using basic social work skills to foster open communication and ensure that Magda feels heard and validated. If she is interested in having her children there, we will need to be considerate of these requests and allow it. 
Other questions I would want to ask medical professionals are: 
What strategies would you recommend helping manage her declining cognitive abilities and her ongoing chronic health?
What would your recommendations be for independent living at this point? When will we know that she is no longer capable of independent living (Tampi, 2020)?
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Magda, an 81-year-old widow of Greek origin, experiences numerous problems that can be analyzed using the biopsychosocial approach. This model has seven domains of biopsychosocial assessment that can be used to determine her current status (Christ & Diwan, n.d.).
Physical Well-Being and Health
Magda’s physical wellbeing has worsened after she suffered a fall that saw her break her hip. Later on, she complains of chronic pain which may hinder her mobility or even interrupt her day-to-day activities (Plummer et al. 2014). She is showing early signs of dementia that affects her cognitive and physical functions.
Psychological Well-Being and Health
Magda has recently suffered physical deterioration and the loss of autonomy, which might induce psychological stress. Such feelings indicate that she could be experiencing anxiety or depression, both of which are not uncommon in elderly people who experience major life transitions (Brandell, 2020). Lack of autonomy is further evidenced by her anger over not being asked where she wanted to live next.
Cognitive Capacity
Magda’s early dementia impairs her memory and ability to make sound decisions. For instance, she lost medications and was also unaware that her grandson Alec was exploiting her financially (Plummer et al., 2014). Because of the growing old, the cognition of such patients tends to deteriorate and thus they require close monitoring to determine their safety.
Ability to Perform ADLs
Magda’s ability to perform activities of daily living (ADLs) is limited. Her need for assistance in taking her medication, help with mobility, as well as with chores such as cleaning shows how she is much more dependent as compared to before.
Social Functioning
Formerly, Magda was socially active, went to family gatherings and church, but now she is lonely. Alec’s neglect to fulfill his promise of companionship worsens her loneliness altering her social wellbeing for the worse (Plummer et al., 2014).
Physical Environment
The once accessible environment of Magda’s apartment is unsafe due to lack of close supervision. Alec’s action contributes to environmental risk level; therefore, it is vital to consider changing her living environment for her safety.
Assessment of Family Caregivers
Helen is the daughter-in-law of Magda, and she is the primary caregiver, but she is struggling to cope up with the financial difficulties and the pressure of dealing with an alcoholic husband. Helen acted unilaterally by making decisions for Magda’s care hence worsening her autonomy (Plummer et al., 2014).
In the case of Magda, to promote her self-determination, I would have involved her more in decisions related to her living arrangements, and care. Questions such as “How do you feel about Alec moving in?” and “What activities or support would help you feel more independent?” would have given valuable information. Moreover, I would have engaged healthcare providers to ensure that her pain and dementia were well controlled and participated with them in the frequent assessment of her health status.

 What are the second and third order effects of a budget cut and provide some commentary regarding what other issues might surface and/or may need to be addressed as a result? 

Suppose  you were to implement a program for juveniles.  What would your program  address and how would you go about starting this program? Your paper  should include the following sections: 
1.An abstract summary 
2.A statement of need or importance of the program supported by literature 
3.What your objectives would be. 
4.Your plan of action including: who will be involved and who are the partners that will be associated with your plans.  
5.What are the projected or anticipated outcomes?  
This assignment should be a minimum of  eight (8) pages double spaced, in APA format, and you should cite at  least eight (8) references to support your report. 

 Identify potential areas of liability in a variety of contexts and evaluate potential solutions to legal problems and challenges