Category: Social work

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
Click on the embedded media below to begin. If needed, access the Transcriipt. Download Transcriipt.

Identify a current event that represents social change or advocacy in action. Using critical analysis supported by research and use of theories, develop a PowerPoint presentation of 8-10 slides. In your presentation explain the following:
What problem are they addressing?
What populations or systems are involved?
How are they promoting social, economic, and environmental justice at the individual, family, group, and community levels?
Is there a proposed solution?
What is the potential role of social work?
Title slide and reference slide are not included in the slide count. Include speaker notes below each content-related slide that represent what would be said if giving the presentation in person. Expand upon the information included in the slide and do not simply restate it. Please ensure the speaker notes include a minimum of 50 words.
You must include a minimum of at least two recent news articles and two scholarly sources to support your presentation.

Review the Issue Statement Sample document in the Learning Resources this week. Search for and select at least one scholarly article that deepens your understanding of—or narrows the context of veteran homelessness in California Search for and select at least one source that explores the population(s) impacted by your selected social problem. This can be a news article or other popular media—for example, you might select a source where someone details their personal story for how they were impacted by veteran homelessness Search for and select at least one local or state policy in California that works to address your selected social problem for the affected populations. Use the Legislative Proposal Assessment from the Council on Social Work Education resource in the Learning Resources this week. This worksheet does not have to be submitted for your Assignment, but it is a useful tool to help you search for, select, and evaluate a policy. Submit a 3- to 5-page paper, addressing the following: Issue Statement: Create a 1-paragraph issue statement that hooks your audience and concisely communicates the imperative to address veteran homelessness in California. Include the following: In 1 paragraph, define your social problem and the population impacted by it. In 1–2 paragraphs, explain your critical reasons for why the public and decision makers, as well as social workers, need to advocate for change. In 1–2 paragraphs, describe what happens in communities if your goal to alleviate the problem is realized. Policy Review: Summarize your selected policy, its relationships to the social problem, and the expected results. Then address the following: Is your selected policy dictated by local or state statute—or a combination thereof? How does the policy address your issue statement? Or what is missing? What are the different sections, or components, of the policy? How long has the current policy been in place? Who supports and who opposes the policy? What changes, or amendments, have been made to the policy? 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.

Using the Youtube video as a guide, and the annotated bibliography (VERY IMPORTANT, ATTACHED) as a starting point, prepare a literature review based on the topic Juvenile Incarceration in America: Is it Punitive or Restorative? Use this format, your literature review will have three sections 1) Introduction
2) Main Body – synthesis and analysis of articles, and 3) Conclusion) as described in the video. For your Introduction, you should be able to utilize Worksheet #1 as an outline, ( VERY IMPORTANT, ATTACHED)
for the Main Body, you should be able to utilize one of the methods described in the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIYC6zG265E

(thematic organization may be the easiest and most relevant), and in your Conclusion, you should introduce your research questions and discuss how your Capstone will contribute to the literature on this topic.
What are 3 boolean search terms? Please write the paper with words that an 8th or 9th-grade student can understand.
Please use the following articles for the research and please give me the page numbers on where you find the quotes in the paper. Aizer, A., & Doyle Jr, J. J. (2015). Juvenile incarceration, human capital, and future crime: Evidence from randomly assigned judges.https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w19102/w19102.pdf
Barnert, E. S., Perry, R., & Morris, R. E. (2016). Juvenile incarceration and Health. https://daneshyari.com/article/preview/4139130.pdf
Bouffard, J., Cooper, M., & Bergseth, K. (2017). “The effectiveness of various restorative justice interventions on recidivism outcomes among juvenile offenders.” http://www.antoniocasella.eu/restorative/Bouffard_2016.pdf
Laird, Robert. “Regional International Juvenile Incarceration Models as a Blueprint for Rehabilitative Reform of Juvenile Criminal Justice Systems in the United States.” https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7701&context=jclc
Munir, Aasma, and Malik Jamil A.. “Mediating Role of Religious Orientation and Moral Character for the Relationship between Parent and Peer Attachment and Delinquency.” https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/23311908.2020.1761042
Puzzanchera, Charles, Hockenberry, Sarah and Sickmund, Melissa. “Youth and the Juvenile Justice System: 2022 National Report.” https://ojjdp.ojp.gov/publications/2022-national-report.pdf
Seiter, L. (2017). Mental health and juvenile justice: A review of prevalence, promising practices, and areas for improvement. https://neglected-delinquent.ed.gov/sites/default/files/NDTAC-MentalHealth-JJ-Brief-508.pdf
Trigueros, Rubén, et al. “Relationship between Emotional Intelligence, Social Skills and Peer Harassment. A Study with High School Students.” https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/12/4208
Underwood, L. A., & Washington, A. (2016). Mental illness and juvenile offenders. https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/13/2/228
Theoretical Young, S., Greer, B., & Church, R. (2017). Juvenile delinquency, welfare, justice, and therapeutic interventions: A global perspective.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5288089/pdf/pbrcpsych_41_1_006.pdf
Literature Review Rubric (100 points)
Criterion A: Organization & Focus (5 points each)
Inadequate Poor Average Good Strong • How strong and coherent is the paper? • Does the paper have consistent and appropriate tone & focus? • Is the organization of the paper logical? • Are sentence transitions used effectively in the paper? • Is the paper formatted correctly (APA 7th edition)? Criterion B: Research/Textual Evidence (65 points total)
Minimal Limited Proficient Commendable Exceptional • Is the thematic organization of the articles sensible and convincing? (30 points)
• How well is the textual content integrated? (25 points)
• Are direct quotes introduced and integrated effectively? *Or* is paraphrased and summarized information correct and integrated effectively? (10 points)
Criterion C: Grammar and Spelling (5 points each)
Minimal Limited Proficient Commendable Exceptional • Are there errors in spelling, punctuation, capitalization, or other language conventions? • How effective is the word choice, sentence fluency and writing techniques.

Identify two areas of social service work where you would be interested in finding employment and
Identify and research one agency in each of these areas of service
Write a descriiption of the agency’s mandate and services offered
Keeping in mind what may be asked in an interview, write a brief descriiption of how your knowledge, experience and skills would be an asset to each of these agencies.
Part 2: Knowledge and Skills
Provide one example for each of the categories listed below that illustrates your learning in either the academic portion of the Social Service Worker Program or your Field Placement experiences. Please provide clear examples (be specific).
Self-awareness
Professional attitude
Critical thinking
Communication skills
Practice skills
Administration skills
Identify any special training you received or workshops you attended. (If you have not had the opportunity to participate in any additional workshops or training, suggest what might have been helpful to you)
Part 3
Schedule, complete and report on one face-to-face interview with a social service professional using the following questions and add two questions based on your area of interest.
What do you like most about this type of work?
What do you least like about your work?
What skills are essential for this job?
What qualifications are required for this job?
What strategies of self-care would you recommend?
What additional training do they recommend for competence in the field?
Other (anything else you would like to know – please include thoughtful questions that would be specific to your interest)
The report should include the following:
Date of interview
Person interviewed, their job title, and how contact was made
Summary of information received
What steps would you include in your future planning because of the interview?
Any follow-up (e.g., further meetings, further enquiries, and thank you emails/cards)
Part 4
Considering the vocational learning outcomes, consider future learning and development objectives and identify three professional development goals to fill gaps in your current learning and performance. What steps will you take to accomplish these development goals? Please see the website for vocational learning outcomes link found on Blackboard.