Compare and contrast the effects of underutilization with the effects of overutilization

Compare and contrast the effects of underutilization with the effects of overutilization. Examine at least three significant differences in your analysis, providing specific examples. Use this unit’s readings or other scholarly, peer-reviewed literature to inform your discussion.

An explanation of the social work practice skills

An explanation of the social work practice skills gained by participating in the field education experience. Reupert, A. (2007). Social worker’s use of self. Clinical Social Work Journal, 35(2), 107-116. Van Voorhis, R. M., & Hostetter, C. (2006). The impact of MSW education on social worker empowerment and commitment to client empowerment through social justice advocacy. Journal of Social Work Education, 42(1), 105-121.

The academic achievement-social inclusion continuum

What is the value of reverse integration on the academic achievement-social inclusion continuum? Based on the article: “Lessons in acceptance; Sunny View Public School’s ‘win-win’ reverse integration program lets profoundly disabled and mainstream children learn together in a place that benefits ‘students, teachers and ultimately society”?

Challenges frequently faced by social workers in all areas of practice

Ethical dilemmas are challenges frequently faced by social workers in all areas of practice. A dilemma is present when there are competing ethical obligations.

Reply to the dilemmas your instructor posts:

  1. Identify the conflict. What are the competing values, goals, or ethics presented?
  2. Identify at least one relevant principle from the NASW Code of Ethics
  3. Discuss how you would engage in ethical decision-making. What would you do?

Your replies should be well thought out and grounded in principles of social work practice and ethics. You should make reference to the NASW Code of Ethics and any other relevant scholarly sources.

Ethical Dilemma #1

You, a social worker of Mexican-American descent, are working with a large family who just immigrated from Mexico. The family has recently experienced the loss of an infant. You feel you are having trouble establishing trust. On a home visit, the family invites you to sit down to a meal with them.

Ethical Dilemma #2

You are a relatively new social worker in a child welfare agency. You have bonded with a co-worker and find that you work very well together as a team. Your co-worker is a great support to you in your new role. You sometimes go for drinks after work to decompress. One night, your co-worker discloses she is going on a date with the father of a child on her caseload. She asks you to keep it a secret because she plans to close the case in a few weeks.

Ethical Dilemma #3

You are working with a teenage client. Your agency encourages social workers to maintain confidentiality with their clients (even though they are minors), giving limited information to parents unless there is risk of self-injury or harm to others. Your client discloses that she is engaging in sexual acts with same-age peers in exchange for money and gifts. She emphasizes the importance of trust within your relationship and her ability to “tell you anything.”

The concept of risk assessment in social work

Critically reflect on the concept of risk assessment in social work. How is risk defined? How do you understand social worker’s role in assessing and managing risk? 2. How can risk assessment be used to perpetuate oppressive, discriminatory, and prejudicial policies, laws, practices, and systemic issues? 3. Discuss how taking an anti-oppressive approach to risk assessment and management can serve to address the inequities in social work practice

Social scientific traditions of communication studies

We would like you to consider the ways in which the events and issues of this moment (racial unrest, political division, a climate crisis, a [recent] pandemic, etc.) might influence the scholarship produced in either the humanistic (including critical humanist) or social scientific traditions of communication studies. What do you think? What are you expecting to see?

Describe the emergence of cognitive psychology and neuroscience

Describe the emergence of cognitive psychology and neuroscience – what prompted the development of these fields and what is significant about the shift from behaviorism to cognitive psychology and neuroscience? What can we understand about human behavior because of neuroscience that we could not have understood before

Depression and other mental health disorders

Depression and other mental health disorders oftentimes go undiagnosed because of the stigma associated with them. This is particularly dangerous, due to the fact that suicide is far too often the unfortunate outcome for those who fail to seek help or be treated for mental health issues.

Imagine that you are a high school guidance counselor and you are tasked by the principal to encourage students who experience overwhelming distress to seek help. Consider what resources you would need to make such a program effective.

 

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Explain what key areas you would need to address to stand up an effective program. How would you advertise to the student population? What mental health issues are you targeting? Explain how you will reduce stigmatic beliefs and thoughts to improve the chances that someone will be comfortable seeking help.

 

How conditional can positive regard have a negative impact on children?

How conditional can positive regard have a negative impact on children? (CC). How can therapists maintain unconditional positive regard while also acknowledging and addressing harmful behaviors or attitudes of the client? (JR)In what ways would you say that you have been the architect of your life? Have you recognized a “self-actualizing” tendency in the people you have known best?(NM).

Explain the identity development model

Explain the identity development model you most identify with and why. Apply this model to your own experiences. Be sure to describe each stage and provide an example(s) of each stage from your personal experience. How might oppression or privilege influence one’s identity development?