Category: Social Work

Please respond to the discussion post below. Must be original work and sources must be cited in APA format.

A) Structural family clinical social workers strongly believe that families organize themselves into enduring organizational patterns, which they refer to as family structure. Strategic Family Therapists , on the other hand, seem to reject this idea of enduring structure, and place more emphasis on disrupting sequences of interaction in which the family problem is embedded and maintained. Discuss the implications of this theoretical difference in shaping our attitude toward families and the impact on our intervention strategies.

Required Readings and Resources

• Gilbar, O., Gnall, K. E., Cole, H. E., & Taft, C. T. (2020). Post-traumatic stress disorder, intimate partner violence, and trauma-informed intervention. Violence and Mental Disorders, 3(3):
• Reiter, M. D. (2014). Case conceptualization in family therapy. Pearson Publishers. ISBN: 978-0-13-288907-0 (please read chapter 7)

Earlier this week, you talked through some options for your research topic. Now it is time to choose!! An Annotated Bibliography can help you to hone in on your upcoming Statement, Purpose, Problem, and Questions. Submit the following: Topic Population Agency/Organization Instrument Outcomes Annotated Bibliography with at least 7 scholarly journal articles, published within the past 10 years. Note: The first 5 bullets can be included at the top of your Annotated Bib.

Students will select one community, neighborhood, or organization (local, national, or international) and address the following:

1. Context and Description

• Description of the community or organization
• Population(s) served and mission or purpose

1. Identified Need or Challenge

• One key social, organizational, or community-level issue
• Use of basic data or credible sources

1. Strengths and Assets

• Existing resources, leadership, or community capacity
• Explicit use of the Strengths and Affirmation principles

1. Macro Practice Relevance

• How does this issue reflect the role of macro social work
• Ethical considerations and implications

Focus: assessment, clarity, and accurate use of macro concepts, not exhaustive evaluation.

Students will select one community, neighborhood, or organization (local, national, or international) and address the following:

1. Context and Description

• Description of the community or organization
• Population(s) served and mission or purpose

1. Identified Need or Challenge

• One key social, organizational, or community-level issue
• Use of basic data or credible sources

1. Strengths and Assets

• Existing resources, leadership, or community capacity
• Explicit use of the Strengths and Affirmation principles

1. Macro Practice Relevance

• How does this issue reflect the role of macro social work
• Ethical considerations and implications

Focus: assessment, clarity, and accurate use of macro concepts, not exhaustive evaluation.

See attached instructions

Revise self care plan based on professor feedback:

Please consider weekly administration of the Perceived Stress Scale as that will provide more data trends to observe. Not mandatory for approval. Simply suggested.

Please do make sure that the primary outcomes identified in the outcomes section are the same as those you will be assessing.

The weekly journaling to assess other named outcomes is a nice approach. Needed are the prompts that will guide your weekly entries that will promote reflective responses the same each time. An example is, “Describe how my self-care has contributed to my emotional health this week. Provide an example.”

I have included the instructions in the files sections

Prompts:

Reflect on your work throughout this module in relation to the Critical Analysis Paper Guidelines (attached).

In your post, address at least one of the following questions:

1. What makes it challenging to think or write critically?
2. What tips or resources can you share to help your classmates to think critically?
3. What questions/comments do you have about the critical analysis paper assignment?

Responses: once the writing part is done, I will send the 1 peer post for you to respond too.

Please remember:

• Writing should be thoughtful, reflective, and should make connections with the assigned topic. You are expected to think critically and cite information from the readings including those found in the module and those assigned for the discussion.
• Where relevant, please incorporate readings into your response and remember to properly cite when using others’ words and/or ideas.