Complete two short Social Work Discussions

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Humanities

BOTH MUST HAVE AT LEAST 2 PEER REVIEWED REFERENCES

1:

Professional Development:

As a social worker, ongoing development is vital to maintain professional behavior, current methodology, and development of best practices. During residency you completed a pre- and post-evaluation of your skills. Your instructor also completed a residency evaluation which provided additional insight and feedback.

Complete the following in preparation for this discussion question:

  • Take some time to reflect upon your growth in this class. What are your strengths? What are your needs for professional development?
  • Consider this unit’s NASW readings on professional development and identify at least two areas of growth.

Complete the following for this discussion question:

  • Identify the two areas of growth you have identified and at least one goal to meet each of those needs.

2:

Sustainability

We have spent the past 10 weeks discussing and examining best practices as they apply to the Campbell family, interventions, insights, strength building, and skills to address the multi-system issues. As advanced generalist social workers, our work does not end with therapeutic interventions—rather, we create systemic change on micro, mezzo, and macro levels.

For this discussion question, focus on one of the family members (Karen, Joe, Kali, or Jacob) and one of the systems in which they were involved, or identify a hypothetical system for that chosen individual:

  1. Apply social work best practices using leadership skills and emerging technologies to promote systemic change towards client sustainability by identifying a research-based, community-based intervention that would provide for sustainable and systemic change to address one of the challenges this family faced.
  2. Provide at least once reference that demonstrates evidence-based best practices to substantiate your intervention.