Assignment Overview
The purpose of this assignment is to analyze The Boy Who Was Raised As a Dog text by Bruce D. Perry and Maia Szalavitz.
By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following CSWE EPAS competencies and behaviors:
CSWE EPAS Competency 4: Engage in practice-informed research and research-informed practice.
C4.GP.B: Identify ethical, culturally informed, anti-racist, and anti-oppressive strategies that address inherent biases for use in quantitative and qualitative research methods to advance the purposes of social work.
Related assignment criterion:
Research and describe at least one culturally responsive intervention to assist the client.
CSWE EPAS Competency 6: Engage with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
C6.GP.A: Apply knowledge of human behavior and person-in-environment, as well as interprofessional conceptual frameworks, to engage with clients and constituencies.
Related assignment criterion:
Apply knowledge of human behavior and person-in-environment to explain skills the social worker needs to engage
with the client.
CSWE EPAS Competency 7: Assess individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
C7.GP.A: Apply theories of human behavior and person-in-environment, as well as other culturally responsive and interprofessional conceptual frameworks, when assessing clients and constituencies.
Related assignment criterion:
Consider the ACEs questionnaire. Discuss the adverse childhood experiences the client was exposed to that are found on the ACEs questionnaire. Identify other adverse childhood experiences the client was exposed to that are not identified on the current ACEs questionnaire.
CSWE EPAS Competency 8: Intervene with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
C8.GP.B: Incorporate culturally responsive methods to negotiate, mediate, and advocate with and on behalf of clients and constituencies.
Related assignment criterion:
Develop a treatment plan for the client using the evidence-based method of intervention you researched.
CSWE EPAS Competency 9: Evaluate practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
C9.GP.A: Select and use culturally responsive methods for evaluation of outcomes.
Related assignment criterion:
Evaluate the effectiveness of your plan.
Assignment Instructions
Choose a case study in The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog to focus on for this assignment and imagine the person in the case study is your client. Use the Social Work Masters Library Research GuideLinks to an external site. as needed.
You will then write a paper that includes the following:
Introduction
Summarize the case study you chose.
Engage
Apply knowledge of human behavior and person-in-environment to explain skills the social worker needs to engage with the client.
Identify other professionals you would collaborate with and explain what their role would be.
Cite research to support your ideas.
Assess
Consider the ACEs questionnaire. Assess the adverse childhood experiences the client was exposed to that are found on the ACEs questionnaire.
Identify other adverse childhood experiences the client was exposed to that are not identified on the current ACEs questionnaire.
Citing research, explain the impact of the adverse childhood experiences you identified.
Research and describe at least one culturally responsive intervention to assist the client.
Examples include psychoanalytic, behavioral, cognitive, person-centered, feminist, et cetera.
Develop a treatment plan for the client using the evidence-based method of intervention you researched.
Identify two short term goals and two objectives for each goal.
Identify two long term goals and two objectives for each goal.
Explain how you would negotiate, mediate, and advocate on the client’s behalf.
Apply research to support your ideas.
Evaluate the effectiveness of your plan.
Explain how you will evaluate the client’s progress.
Consider the client’s diversity needs in your evaluation.
Conclusion
Conclude your paper by summarizing how you used micro, mezzo, and macro skills in working with this client.
