Category: Social Issues

Critically analyze and reflect your thoughts and perspectives on the information you received through your readings and how you will utilize this knowledge moving forward as a professional social worker

Reflection Paper

Reflect on blow article:

https://medium.com/change-becomes-you/how-to-make-a-difference-unleash-the-power-of-a-grand-vision-in-5-steps-bd54fe082ea0

1. Critical Reflection Journals (20%): For each selected article/video, students are to submit a journal entry, which consists of your ongoing reactions to readings and your own personal and professional experiences both past and present.

The purpose of the journal assignment is to help you continue to develop your critical thinking skills that work toward integrating theory and knowledge by encouraging you to articulate the connections between theories and research with your own personal and practical experiences; and to identify the social welfare implications raised by the material.

Each critical reflection journal entry assigned will require at minimum two (2) pages in length of original written narrative.

This reflection essay will critically analyze and reflect your thoughts and perspectives on the information you received through your readings and how you will utilize this knowledge moving forward as a professional social worker.

Guidelines:
Journal entries are to include the following:
• Critical analysis of assigned readings. Do not summarize the readings. Instead discuss your intellectual and emotional reactions.

• Critical reaction to class lectures, discussions, presentations, exercises and videos. Again, do not summarize. Instead, discuss and react to those issues in class that interest or excite you or with which you have some experience.

• Implications you draw from readings and class discussion for social work practice and policy. Discuss what difference you think the readings and class material make in social work

• Examples from your field placement and life experience (yours or those of your friends or relatives). Examples should illustrate how the reading or class discussion increases your understanding of a particular practice situation and /or connects to a life experience or raises further questions.

• Reactions, thoughts, feelings about what is happening in the world around us, in relation to what we are reading and discussing in class

• Discussion of newspaper or magazine articles, journal articles, books, television programs, movies, etc. that are relevant to what we are considering in class and the topic

Some other suggestions:
• Formulate your own questions and ideas and express them even when you can only be tentative.

• Try to make connections between the abstract and concrete, between theories, concepts and ideas and ways in which they are played out in yours and other’s experiences.

• Respond to the perspective of the author of the article.

• When you start an entry with experience, test it out against some reading. When you start with reading, react critically and try to relate it to our own ideas, experiences, and questions.

Write a 1,500 word research essay on the topic of your choice on Global Human Trafficking. confirm the research topic with me as you need to be answering a question.

Write a 1,500 word research essay on the topic of your choice on Global Human Trafficking. confirm the research topic with me as you need to be answering a question.

Note that you are expected to refer to your academic literature from the course where appropriate, and make sure that your bibliography uses Harvard style.

What elements of diversity are you taking into consideration as you develop the plan? What social and/or political determinants of health should be considered?

THIS IS BASED OFF THE Omar case scenario & Exam & answering all the below questions!

In this paper, you must outline and discuss the major content phases of the planning process. You should utilize all relevant course material and display and reference theoretical foundations and models which have been learned in Social Work Theory and Methods and II. Clearly state in your paper how the Theories and models that are mentioned relate to your planning process.

As the foundation for the plan, use an assessment of the provided case study and make sure your assessment covers as many of the relevant items in the Social history as applicable and contains a narrative that pulls the items together and gives a view of the client (This was your exam). Your assessment will not be graded as part of the planning paper assignment, but it will assist you in developing a path towards a logical and effective planning paper.

When developing your plan, make sure you clearly consider and indicate in the planning paper the following:

Does your plan follow the SMART model; if so briefly explain how? (Specific Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Timely)

What elements of diversity are you taking into consideration as you develop the plan?

What NASW values/ethics related to social work are relevant to this client?

What social and/or political determinants of health should be considered?

Is there any unresolved trauma?

What Economic factors might you have to consider in developing the plan?

Discuss how your plan will be implemented

Identify potential barriers or challenges to the success of your plan.

Select at least one program/resource that relates to your client population that you can use as part of the intervention and as a resource in your plan; briefly explain the program and how to make contact with the resource: Ex: family with small children and economic needs: (SNAP or WIC program).

How will you evaluate if your plan is working? Make the evaluation substantial and not just a 1- 2 line statement. What evaluative tools will you use?

When will you terminate the case?

Cite the resources you use-APA style; cite books, articles, quotes and other Bibliographic information you utilize in your paper.

(As a guide, social work texts/journals use the APA style.)

The length of this paper should be 6-8 pgs. Cover page and reference page do not count towards total but must be included.