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Overview
This assignment is meant to guide you through a process that may prove useful as you continue in the social work profession. This assignment also builds on what you have done in the previous assignment, providing you an opportunity to dive deeper into the complexity and implications of inclusive programs and policies.
The second of four course papers, this assignment will ask you to prepare a gap analysis that starts with describing the current situation that was identified in the previous assignment discussing a local, state, or federal policy that is negatively impacting an oppressed population. You will include a description of the affected population and the ways in which they are being hurt. You will then describe the change opportunity and the desired state after improvement, explaining why the improvement is needed and what the desired outcome will look like. Remember to support all main points, assertions, arguments, conclusions, or recommendations with relevant, credible, and convincing evidence.
By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following competencies and behaviors:
EPAS Competency 5: Engage in policy practice.​
C5.GP.A: Use social justice, anti-racist, and anti-oppressive lenses to assess how social welfare policies affect the delivery of and access to social services.
Related Assignment Criteria:
Describe an existing change opportunity for the selected public program or policy and the desired state after improvement.
Describe the specific outcomes or goals for the proposed change to the public program or policy.
C5.GP.B: Apply critical thinking to analyze, formulate, and advocate for policies that advance human rights and social, racial, economic, and environmental justice.
Related Assignment Criterion:
Analyze the forms and mechanisms of oppression and discrimination that exist within the selected public program or policy.
Instructions
For this assignment, in a 3–4 page paper:
Describe an existing change opportunity for the selected public program or policy and the desired state after improvement.
Explain why improvement is needed and meaningful in this area.
Analyze the forms and mechanisms of oppression and discrimination that exist within the selected public program or policy.
Explain specific discriminatory issues in the selected public program or policy.
Describe the specific outcomes or goals for the proposed change to the public program or policy.
Discuss potential challenges or obstacles to these goals.
Support main points, assertions, arguments, conclusions, or recommendations with relevant, credible, and convincing evidence.
Synthesize evidence to demonstrate its importance to your discussion or argument.
Apply APA style and formatting to scholarly writing.
Demonstrate correct stylistic conventions, document structure, and source attributions.
Additional Requirements
Your assignment is expected to meet the following requirements:
Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style and formatting standards.
Sources: A minimum four sources.
Length of paper: 3–4 double-spaced pages (not including reference list).
Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.

Your assignment for this week requires you to locate and interview a social worker who works with older adults. While older adults do not have to be the only type of client/patient they work with, focus your interview and paper on their experiences working with this population. Be sure to include the following in your written summary of the interview:
Describe the social worker’s work setting and job title, along with their primary job responsibilities including how how their personal experiences and affective reactions may affect their assessment and decision-making.
Explain their work with older adults, including the rewards and challenges when working with client strengths and limitations inclusive of the dimensions of diversity as understood as the intersectionality of multiple factors.
Examine the strategies they use to effectively work in a collaborative manner with other professions when engaged in inter-professional teams.
Discuss and interpret their encounters with older or dependent adult abuse/neglect situations including how social workers understand frameworks of ethical decision-making and how to apply principles of critical thinking to those frameworks in practice, research, and policy arenas.
Inquire about the process for mandated reporting of suspected dependent adult abuse/neglect and if there is special training associated with this process.
Conclude with their advice for successfully working with older adult clients/patients. Do they recommend additional community resources that might be lacking for this population?
Length: 3 pages, not including title and reference pages.
This assignment does not require the inclusion of academic, scholarly resources. But, you still must write it in APA format.
Your assignment should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course and provide new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards.

Ethical Interventions to Serve Children and Families
In this course, you had an opportunity to examine some of the specific areas in which human service professionals intervene in the lives of children and families to help keep children safe. You learned about agencies and interventions designed to help children and families. You also considered strategies to improve the condition of children and families who receive services. One of the most important aspects of your job as a human service professional is the knowledge and understanding of what services are available for your clients, ethically providing those services, and in a way that is valuing diversity.
Assignment Directions
This week, you are going to design a visually appealing brochure (using a brochure template provided in Microsoft Word). The goal of this assignment is to educate clients and the community about a social problem and create an ethical intervention. Please ensure your submission includes accurate information, based on your research, accurately cites your statistics and any other research used.
Please respond to the following:
Describe the nature of the social problem:
Include facts about its impact within the community (ex. number or percentage of people affected, any recent growth/decline in numbers, types of resources currently available, etc.).
Examine and discuss how the social problem impacts members across multiple cultures within your community.
Evaluate factors that perpetuate the problem in the community, and what needs exist to address the problem.
Describe your intervention:
Using ethical reasoning, discuss how you have applied at least three of the National Organization for Human Services standards to your responsibilities with clients. These should be used in your ethical and professional decision-making process when designing your intervention solution.
Explain how your intervention will appropriately address the existing need(s) and fills the gap within the community.
Assignment Guidelines
Your assignment should be a brochure and should include the following elements:
Be sure to provide your name, title of assignment, course and section number, and date.
Answer all the questions provided in the directions.
The assignment must be written in Standard English and demonstrate superior organization, including a highly developed viewpoint and purpose that is clearly established and sustained. The communication of your thoughts must be highly ordered, logical, and unified, displaying exceptional content, organization, style, and mechanics (including the use of correct grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure).
Your responses should reflect professional writing standards, using proper tone and language. The writing and writing style should be correct and accurate, and reflect knowledge of child welfare and family.
References: Sources listed in APA format.
Include a minimum of three sources to support your responses and conclusions. One should be your text, another should be the NOHS Ethical Standards, and the last should be the source for your community statistics.
Use Arial or Times New Roman 12-point font
Use current APA formatting and citation style.
If you need assistance with APA style, please visit Academic Writer.
I was going to do my social issue on child illiteracy in Amercia
Exploring Child Welfare
Cynthia Crosson-Tower (Class Textbook)

Traveling Kit Presentation:
• Students will assemble a sample traveling therapy kit. The expected cost of the entire kit should be $100 or less. Student will include a variety of items that are appropriate for use with a variety of ages and diagnoses. **NOTE: Students are not required to actually purchase the items used to make up their kit.
• Student will develop a PowerPoint discussing each item in the kit, identifying the population and presenting problems that the item would target, and providing rationale for each item.

In considering Llewyn’s 3 Leadership styles and the additional 3 leadership styles including: transformational leadership, transactional leadership, and situational leadership, which leadership style would you favor in facilitating a group? Why?  List at least three mechanisms of oppression and how they may affect dynamics in a group. Explain how, as the facilitator utilizing the leadership style you chose, you would handle these mechanisms of oppression, taboo subjects, and conflict in the group setting through the lens of the NASW Code of Ethics.

Please make sure each post has two references. Separate each question. 
Question 1 
What is the clinical importance of understanding the origin of addiction? How does the client’s narrative affect treatment? How important is it to discuss the role that a Christian Worldview plays in their narrative and why? (150 words, 2 references) 
Question 2 (Feedback)
According to our text, the origin of addiction is crucial for clinical treatment because knowing this origin from the client’s history will in fact inform the therapist of the direction of treatment planning. The therapist’s awareness of whether such addiction is genetically or environmentally is in fact-based factors into the assessment process, strategic process, and treatment intervention. The text also reveals that knowledge of this supports therapeutic professional disposition and self-awareness. The text reveals that healthcare professionals’ approach based on the origin of addiction provides targeted support for client long-term care and recovery (Van & Davis 2018). Christian worldview plays a great role in helping to create an atmosphere that ignites change. However, a reportable one’s Christian worldview should not cause additional harm to a client’s beliefs, values. The ACA code of ethics speaks clearly concerning one’s personal views. Counselors are advised to be conscious and mindful of their own values, attitudes, and beliefs (ACA code of ethics, A.4.a.b 2014). Feedback? (50 words, 2 references) 
Question 3 (Feedback) 
An important aspect of the client’s narrative is understanding how the social context of drug use influences what Goode (1972, as cited in McNeece & DiNitto, 2012) says is the “four central aspects of drug reality” (p. 31). The client’s version of how they define the drug experience, the effects of the drug and the drug related behaviors they demonstrate must be a part of the biopsychosocial assessment. As well, mental illness and addiction is another aspect of the client’s narrative that could affect treatment. How would you as a therapist integrate treatment for a client whose mental illness is affecting their ability to reduce the impact of their origin of addiction? Feedback? (40 words, 2 references) 
Question 4 
Describe how biological, psychological, and social factors contribute to the development of addictions. (150 words, 2 references) 
Question 5 (Feedback ) 
You did a good job writing an initial discussion that integrates course theories by using research to support your ideas.   The social work profession places a high degree of importance on being familiar with the literature relating alcohol issues to race, ethnicity, and culture and thus becoming knowledgeable about the effects of alcohol on different groups and the factors associated with alcohol use (Goldenberg & Goldenberg, 2013). In understanding the “underlying under-controlled or disinhibited behavior (i.e., impulsivity and sensation seeking) that have been identified as correlates of substance use” (Franco & Barnes, 2015, p. 107), consideration has to be given not just to the personality that could shape an individual’s behavior, but to the the fact that “heritability of drug dependence and alcoholism is approximately 50%, indicating that genetic and environmental risk factors also play a roughly equivalent role in the development of substance abuse/dependence” (Buscemi & Turchi, 2011; Enoch, 2012, as cited in Davis & Loxton, 2013, p. 2306).
Given these ideas, how would you expect the way clients construct stories about their lives that then would affect treatment? (30 words, 2 sources) 
Question 6 
What is the most effective and beneficial parenting style? Why? Identify the parenting style implemented by your parents and provide supporting details. (100 words, 2 sources) 
question 7 (Feedback) 
There are various parenting styles, each with its own set of benefits and drawbacks. Parenting style can be categorized by two components: responsiveness, a parent’s response to the child’s needs and wishes, and demandingness or behavioral control, a parent’s approach to discipline and the level of demands placed on the child (Stein & Breckenridge, 2023). Research has shown that authoritative parenting is the most effective and beneficial style, it is also the preferred parenting style for child psychologists (US, 2020). Authoritative parents are warm, nurturing, and responsive to their children’s needs while also setting clear boundaries and expectations. This style promotes independence, self-discipline, and emotional intelligence in children. Authoritative parents provide guidance and support without being overly controlling or permissive. Children raised by authoritative parents tend to have higher self-esteem, better social skills, and excel academically. They are more likely to develop healthy relationships with others and become responsible adults. Authoritarian parenting is characterized by strict rules, high expectations, and little to no flexibility. Parents using this style often rely on punishment rather than positive reinforcement to discipline their children. This can lead to children feeling fearful, anxious, or rebellious. On the other hand, permissive parenting is marked by lenient rules, few consequences for misbehavior, and a lack of structure. Parents using this style may be more focused on being their child’s friend rather than an authority figure. While this can create a warm and nurturing environment, it may also result in children lacking self-discipline and struggling with boundaries. Growing up, I was raised by parents who implemented an authoritative parenting style. My parents (my mom specifically) set clear rules and expectations while also being responsive to my needs and emotions. My mother was firm in her discipline, but always took the time to explain the reasons behind her decisions. My father was a mix of both authoritative and permissive, I only saw him on weekends due to my parents being divorced, so it could very well be the circumstances. Since we were only there every other weekend, I felt he was a lot more relaxed in his parenting style and rarely needed to discipline me and my sister.  (40 words, 2 sources) 
Question 8 (Feedback)
Low emotional support and excessive control are characteristics of the authoritarian parenting style. (Stein) The authoritative parenting style is the most advantageous. While the primary goal of positive discipline is to assist parents in enforcing effective discipline, it’s also feasible that it will encourage parents to shift from permissive or authoritarian parenting to an authoritative approach (Caroll). This is just because the guardians who utilize this style have their kids confident and respectful; they perform well scholastically and are less inclined to report discouragement and even tension issues. My folks’ nurturing style is Tyrant style since they generally put down certain boundaries and principles expected to accomplish disappointment, which I achieved. For instance, at school, they typically gave me a good grade on some random test, and on the off chance that I neglected to accomplish a good grade, they rebuffed me by not giving me upkeep. (40 words, 2 sources) 
Question 9 
Discuss how the family of origin influences one’s parenting skills and what can happen when parenting styles, strategies, and philosophies are not discussed prior to parenthood. How might this be addressed in therapy? (100 words, 2 sources) 
Question 10 (Feedback) 
The family of origin plays a significant role in shaping an individual’s parenting skills, as it is within this primary social context that one first learns about parenting behaviors and attitudes. The experiences and interactions with one’s own parents often serve as a template for parenting one’s children. For instance, a study by Anikiej-Wiczenbach and Kaźmierczak (2023) found correlations between parental responsiveness and self-reported parental styles in the family of origin, with gender differences also playing a role. They observed that mothers who had liberal loving mothers themselves tended to exhibit higher sensitivity and cooperation in parenting, whereas those with autocratic mothers showed lower levels of these qualities. Fathers showed similar patterns, with positive correlations between having had democratic fathers and their own observed responsiveness toward daughters (Anikiej-Wiczenbach & Kaźmierczak, 2023) Feedback? (40 words, 2 sources) 

Getting Started
Cultural competence is a cornerstone of social work. It is an ongoing process, in which professional social workers are expected to improve their knowledge, understanding, and skills in working with diverse people on a regular basis. Social work, in general, is concerned about addressing – and when possible, eliminating – oppression. Ecological theory, also referred to as ecological framework, ecological systems, ecosystems perspective and others, provides an overarching view of how people are affected by their environments, and, in turn, affect their environments. This includes societal, as well as individual, views and beliefs about marginalized and oppressed groups. A rather challenging aspect of cultural competence, as well as social work in general, is managing our own worldview and bias. This is challenging because it is very difficult for us to see or be aware of our own biases, and often they are only revealed through discussion with others. However, within the context of practicing social work, it is extremely important that you become aware of your personal biases and how they influence your reactions and responses to others as well as your decision-making. Thus, through supervision, self-reflection, reading about cultural competence, and examining specific case studies or examples of your own work, you ideally will become more aware of your biases as well as strive to become more objective and culturally sensitive in your social work practice. In this discussion, we will also examine how our understanding of diversity, marginalization, and oppression is informed by our commitment to anti-racism, equity, and inclusion, which are fundamental to ethical social work practice.
Resources
Textbook: The Social Work Practicum: Preparation for Practice
Website: NASW Code of Ethics
Lau, J. & Ng, K. (2014). Conceptualizing the counseling training environment using Bronfenbrenner’s ecological theory.  International Journal of Advanced Counseling, 36(4), 423-439. 
Background Information
This assignment will allow you to become more self-reflective, manage your personal biases, address how to better work with diverse clientele, how to utilize and apply the ecological theory (or ecosystems perspective) in a case study, demonstrate character, and gain a deeper understanding of the NASW Code of Ethics. Through reflecting on a case study or example from your practicum, you will analyze a situation and reflect on how you can improve in your practice with others, including reducing the influence of personal biases and strengthening your cultural competence. As we reflect on these case studies, it’s important to consider how our approach to diversity, marginalization, and oppression is influenced by our commitment to anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion (ADEI) in social work practice.
Instructions
Read Chapter 13, “Diversity in Social Work Practice,” in your textbook The Social Work Practicum: Preparation for Practice.
Review the NASW Code of Ethics by clicking on “About NASW” in the main navigation. scroll down to “Ethics” and choose “Code of Ethics.”
Review the content on Ecological Theory provided in the article by Lau and Ng (2014). You can find this article using Online Campus Library Services (OCLS).
Select a case study, scenario, or situation that occurred recently in your practicum (Community Mental Health: MI/DD Adult Case Management) that relates to diversity, marginalization, cultural competence, and/or personal bias.
Navigate to the threaded discussion and respond to the following discussion questions or prompts:
Briefly describe your case study, scenario, or situation that occurred recently in your practicum, providing specific examples of the marginalized or oppressed clientele with whom you are working, along with the situation. This can be a situation you have been directly involved with or have heard about through others at the agency.
Apply the ecological theory or perspective to your marginalized/oppressed clients. Explain how this theory assists you in not only understanding why they are marginalized/oppressed, but also how you can seek to reduce marginalization/oppression (locally or nationally). Be sure to explain relevant aspects of the theory and to cite sources from course materials or other professional literature in your responses. 
Describe how you are working to be aware of your biases and how they may affect your interactions with this clientele. Be specific about how you are or can use reflection, supervision, research, etc. to assist you.
Describe how you are advancing your cultural competency and anti-racist practice with this clientele. Give an example. 
What are you proud of in your work with this clientele when it comes to cultural competency? What can you do differently?  Be specific in your responses to these questions.
Be sure to reference both the textbook and the NASW Code of Ethics in your discussions.

What do you think are some of the
developmental challenges that a transgender child faces as they enter adolescence? In your answer, include examples from the documentary. Analyze the impact of societal attitudes and norms on the identity development of transgender adolescents, using Erikson’s theory as a framework. How do stigma, discrimination, and lack of social support influence the resolution of identity versus role confusion?****Examine the role of ego identity and identity diffusion in the experiences of transgender adolescents. How do transgender youth navigate the process of integrating their gender identity into a cohesive sense of self, according to Erikson’s theory?Explore how Erikson’s theory applies to the experiences of transgender adolescents in the context of family dynamics. How do familial acceptance, rejection, or ambivalence impact the resolution of identity versus role confusion during adolescence?**

Clinical Issues/Disorder Paper:
Students will write a minimum 6-page research paper on a commonly encountered child or adolescent clinical issue or disorder. Student will:
∗ Provide a thorough description of the issue or disorder;
∗ Discuss the prevalence of the issue being presented;
∗ Outline potential diagnostic criteria or symptoms of the presenting issue;
∗ Discuss proposed etiology of the presenting problem;
∗ Identify and discuss one or two evidence-based interventions for the issue.
• A minimum of 4 peer reviewed journals are required as resources. Paper should be formatted according to APA 7th edition.