Category: Social work

Objective: This assignment is designed to help you increase resource navigation for individuals or families experiencing Substance Use Disorders.
Visit The SAMSHALinks to an external site.website: SAMSHA as you were instructed to do so on the previous page: Help Resources for SUDs
Click on the “Find Help” or “Programs” drop downs
Explore the services and programs and reflect on how a Social Worker would use these.
Answer:
Explain in your own words, what the service provided by SAMHSA is, please identify what you chose. For example “The Recovery and Recovery Support Hotline” or “The 988 and Suicide and Crisis Hotline”.
Provide feedback on this program and or service offered by SAMHSA, make sure to include how it is relevant to a family or individual experiencing Substance Use Disorder/s.
While this activity is graded as complete/incomplete it is part of the course learning experience and counts towards this week’s active engagement.

Objective: This assignment is designed to help you increase resource navigation for individuals or families experiencing Substance Use Disorders.
Visit The SAMSHALinks to an external site.website: SAMSHA as you were instructed to do so on the previous page: Help Resources for SUDs
Click on the “Find Help” or “Programs” drop downs
Explore the services and programs and reflect on how a Social Worker would use these.
ANSWER:
Explain in your own words, what the service provided by SAMHSA is, please identify what you chose. For example “The Recovery and Recovery Support Hotline” or “The 988 and Suicide and Crisis Hotline”.
Provide feedback on this program and or service offered by SAMHSA, make sure to include how it is relevant to a family or individual experiencing Substance Use Disorder/s.
While this activity is graded as complete/incomplete it is part of the course learning experience and counts towards this week’s active engagement.

Watch: Video: Legacies of Social Change
(40 pts total) Answer the following questions in depth make sure you connect them to the video – how their work and who they are in relation to social work:Who was Jane Adams in relation to Social Work?
What was the Toynbee Hall, and where it originate and who brought the “idea” of the Toynbee Hall back oth US?
Who was Harney Hopkins in relation to social work?
Emergency Relief Act of 1933and who called it a “quick fix”?
Who was Jane Hoey in relation to social work?
Who was Del Anderson in relation to social work?
Who was Whitney Young in relation to social work?
Do you see a connection amongst the individuals described above? Who’s work and/or struggle did you identify with the most of the individuals portrayed in the video: Adams, Hopkins, Hoey, Del Anderson and/or Young?

Objective: This assignment is designed to help you increase resource navigation for individuals or families experiencing Substance Use Disorders.
Visit The SAMSHALinks to an external site.website: SAMSHA as you were instructed to do so on the previous page: Help Resources for SUDs
Click on the “Find Help” or “Programs” drop downs
Explore the services and programs and reflect on how a Social Worker would use these.
Answer:
Explain in your own words, what the service provided by SAMHSA is, please identify what you chose. For example “The Recovery and Recovery Support Hotline” or “The 988 and Suicide and Crisis Hotline”.
Provide feedback on this program and or service offered by SAMHSA, make sure to include how it is relevant to a family or individual experiencing Substance Use Disorder/s.
While this activity is graded as complete/incomplete it is part of the course learning experience and counts towards this week’s active engagement.

The great variety of careers and occupations within the field of HHS is growing every year. A review of some of the data bases in the text will provide opportunities to search and identify many occupational areas within different governmental departments and programs. Searching, for example, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services website will result in finding many careers such as: social workers, preschool programs, criminal justice, counseling, gerontology, and drug and alcohol treatment. After selecting two different websites related to HHS, identify two career areas in the HHS field and do the following:
Record the websites or data bases, listing the careers or occupations given.
Prepare a brief description of the career / occupation.
Respond thoughtfully to the following two questions:Selecting one of the career occupation areas, complete the following sentence: I believe working in the HHS career area would be right for me because…
In this career area the kind of work I would be doing would be… (complete the sentence)

Qualitative research in the past 30 years has increasingly been viewed as making an important contribution to research and evaluation. For this discussion, you are asked to read two Research in Practice articles in the text. Evaluate and synthesize the contribution qualitative researched played with regard to Research in Practice (5.1, pp. 110) and Research in Practice (12.2, p 338). Your work should clearly identify the importance of using qualitative methods and explain in what ways these methods helped the studies.

For this short assignment please only provide answers for ONE of the docuseries, Gabriel Fernandez, or Kalief Browder. NOT BOTH. 3 pages MAXIMUM, using APA formatting. Answer the following questions for the docuseries you choose to watch:
Gabriel Fernandez
ReflectionsIf your supervisor instructed you to do something against your code of ethics, how would you respond and what actions would you take?
If you were assigned Gabriel/Kalief to your caseload what would you do to support his health and well-being?
What areas of Gabriel/Kalief’s life would you make sure were being addressed and why?
AssessmentWhat did you learn about yourself from watching the docuseries you chose? Start this paragraph with: “After completing this assignment I realized (feelings, thoughts, experiences)… Did anything show up for you personally or what about this case was challenging? What did you learn about yourself?
Kalief Browder
ReflectionsIf your supervisor instructed you to do something against your code of ethics, how would you respond and what actions would you take?
If you were assigned Kalief Browder to your caseload when he was released from prison, what would you do to support his reintegration into society?
What areas of Kalief’s life would you make sure were being addressed and why?
AssessmentWhat did you learn about yourself from watching the docuseries you chose? Start this paragraph with: “After completing this assignment I realized (feelings, thoughts, experiences)… Did anything show up for you personally or what about this case was challenging? What did you learn about yourself

For this week’s assignment, utilize the NASW Practice Standards for health care settings that were included in this week’s resources. 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. Review and analyze this document, and then prepare a critical analysis of the following:
Considering what you have read in your other assigned readings this week, explore the relevancy of the Practice Standards in today’s ever-changing field of health care. Also, explain if the Standards reflect the variety of roles that social work has in health care. Provide evidence to support your answer.
If you were a newly graduated MSW who was entering the profession as a hospital social worker on an intensive care unit, allocate standards that would be your strengths, and then explain why. Which standards would you need to strengthen? Think of how social workers enact interventions to help clients resolve issues when formulating your response.
Additional resources are not required, but you may include resources in addition to the NASW document.
Length: 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.

Post a response to the following:
Explain how you differentiate among the following disorders despite all of them having psychosis as a symptom.Schizophrenia
Bipolar with psychotic features
Major depressive disorder with psychotic features
Schizoaffective disorder
Explain how misdiagnosis of these disorders can affect clients.
Explain how culture influences understanding of the diagnosis of the disorder.

To prepare:
Review this week’s Learning Resources on process recordings.
Access the Field Experience webpage in the Learning Resources. Review the materials on process recordings, including the example completed recording. Then, download the Process Recording Template for Concentration Year and use it for this Assignment.
Recall the interactive media from Week 3 (Theory-Driven Advanced Practice) in which you engaged with a client. You may revisit this media piece in the Learning Resources above if needed.
Now, imagine that you have just met with this client and need to complete a process recording of your session. (transcriipt is in files) Using the Process Recording Template for Concentration Year, complete a practice process recording based on your engagement with the client in the Theory-Driven Advanced Practice interactive media. Specifically:
Complete the agency and client information section.
Provide a transcriipt of your dialogue with the client.
Identify your application of specific theories, practice models, techniques, and skills within the interaction.
Analyze the interaction by interpreting the client’s verbal and nonverbal responses.
Describe your reactions, including what you were thinking and feeling, and/or any issues related to the client interaction.
Walden University Field Experience. (n.d.). Field experience: School of social work: Field courses,
resources, and webinars.Links to an external site. https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/c.php?g=81877&p=691183
Select the “Process Recordings” tab and review the process recording resources. Download the Process Recording Template for Concentration Year.
Walden University, LLC. (2023). Advanced practice process recordingLinks to an external site. [Interactive media]. Walden University Canvas. https://waldenu.instructure.com
Walden University, LLC. (2023). Theory-driven advanced practice [Interactive media]. Walden University Canvas. https://waldenu.instructure.com
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