Final Paper (30 points) is due by 11:59 PM on Week #10.
In this assignment you will write a brief case study related to your specialization. Your task is to formulate an intervention plan / process based on your assessment of the problem/s. The case study should be one page or less single spaced, including both current presentation and related history.
Include the following in your intervention planning and implementation:
- Choose any evidence-informed intervention that we have studied to apply.
- Discuss assessment issues from the case study that have informed your decision around which evidence-informed intervention to choose. Why did you choose this type of intervention? What are other ways that you could intervene, and why did you not choose those options?
- Who would you include in the intervention process?
- Consider micro, mezzo and macro level intervention targets
- Be specific on who/what organizations are included, and the justification for such inclusion
Identify systems and organizations involved, assess involvement, need for collaboration, and how each will be involved in interventions - Describe how you would engage the client system, how you would use social work skills to do so, and what challenges you anticipate
- Clearly define and explain the proposed intervention, both overall and in terms of process, steps or stages related to your particular client system.
- Who will implement the intervention?
- What strengths does the client system bring to the intervention process?
- What are the components of the intervention and how will the social worker adapt them to this client system? (See peer-reviewed literature related to the intervention.)
- How long will the intervention take?
- What are some barriers to implementing the intervention? What are some solutions to these barriers?
- How have you addressed issues of diversity, disadvantage, and other larger socio-cultural constraints (risk factors) and strengths?
- What are some ethical challenges you think may arise from working with this client system, and how will you address them? (Reference the NASW Code of Ethics, 2017)
Page length of the assignment: 8-10 pages, APA format. The case study should be approximately one page (single spaced) and can introduce the paper. NOTE: Title page and reference page are not included in page count.
| Description | Competency Assessed | Checklist | Score of Competent | Dimension |
| Case study
| N/A
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| (1) Selection of evidence-informed intervention and detailed explanation of intervention’s application to case study |
4 | ¨ Chooses evidence-informed practice and discusses what other interventions were considered ¨ Offers a compelling argument for using the particular intervention by demonstrating its clear relevance to case study, including relevant elements such as: age, gender, and culture; developmental capacity and any disability; family structure and challenges; resources and challenges in larger contexts; structural, environmental, and power dynamics, systemic disparities, the lived experiences of oppression in peoples’ lives. ¨ Includes reference to evidence-informed intervention and/or intervention’s application to specific population and contextual considerations (2 text or peer-reviewed readings)
| All 3 checked | Knowledge Skills C/A Processes |
| (2) Quality and depth of analysis of intervention planning to case study: development and implementation of engagement strategies | 6 | ¨ Provides description of engagement process as it applies to this intervention process – in other words how are you engaging this client/client system? ¨ Applies understanding of intervention process to the case material for the development and implementation of engagement strategies specific to client system – in other words why are you doing what you’re doing? ¨ Includes proper citations as needed | All 3 checked | Knowledge |
| (3) Use of self in relationship to engage, assess, and intervene with client system in case study | 6 | ¨ Demonstrates warmth, empathy, reflection, challenge, advocacy, and other relevant interpersonal skills to effectively engage diverse client systems ¨ Acknowledges how aspects of one’s own identities (e.g., background, status, privilege) and experiences affect the engagement process, and competently addresses them in engaging
| All 2 checked | Skills C/A Processes |
| (4) Quality and depth of analysis of intervention planning to case study: assessment process |
7 | ¨ Provides description of assessment process as it applies to intervention chosen – in other words how are you assessing this client/client system? ¨ Applies understanding of intervention process to the case material for the development and implementation of assessment strategies specific to client system – in other words why are you assessing in this way? ¨ Includes proper citations as needed
| All 3 checked
| Knowledge C/A Processes |
| (5) Quality and depth of analysis of intervention planning to case study: intervention process | 8 | ¨ Effectively develops an overall intervention plan using salient elements of the case study ¨ Develops each aspect of the intervention process (stages, tasks, and/or elements) related to the case study ¨ Describes effective use of social work skills to implement intervention ¨ Describes effective use of social work skills to address barriers to the intervention process ¨ Includes proper citations as needed
| All 5 checked | Knowledge Skills
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