Assignment
Purpose
The purpose of this assignment is to have students engage in the use of HBSE theories and frameworks to assess and evaluate early childhood experiences on later development.
Outcomes
CO 2: Apply conceptual frameworks and developmental theories in describing human development and behavior for young, middle, and later adulthood.
CO 4: Explain how biological, psychological, and sociological developmental dimensions affect one another throughout the lifespan.
Requirements and Guidelines
You will construct a 4 – 5-page paper which must follow APA 7th Edition guidelines (professional version) and adhere to the academic integrity policy of the University. Please utilize the required readings for Module 2 and additional peer-reviewed journal articles (if needed) for this assignment.
Prior to beginning your writing, you need to identify an adult individual (current client, previous client, acquaintance, or relative) whom you have extensive knowledge of their life. This assignment will be difficult if you do not know an extensive amount about this person’s life. The person you identify must meet the following criteria:
The individual should currently have, or have had in the past a clear interaction with a larger system (e.g., medical system, school system, criminal justice system, child welfare system, social service system, public housing system, mental health system).
The individual should also identify with one or more groups impacted by historic and systemic oppression and/or discrimination (e.g., socioeconomic status, disability status, immigration status, race, ethnicity, mental health history, gender, sexual orientation, sexual identity, religious affiliation).
Please provide a brief introduction to the paper and an overview of your identified individual, the large system in question and why they engaged with this large system, and the quality of the engagement with that large system (helpful, not helpful, detrimental, discriminatory, supportive). Provide justification for your assessment of the quality of engagement with the large system.
Using Intersectional Theory assess the individual in terms of interactions with the large system that you identified.
Food for thought: How has each aspect of the individual’s intersectional identity impacted them throughout their life-span. Has it changed from young adulthood to their current age? Do you believe that aspects of their intersectional identity impact the way they engage with the large system, or conversely how they are treated by the larger system? Is their engagement with the larger system representative of how they engage with society as a whole?
Describe the geographical location (larger environment) that the individual resides in. Your description should include the geographic location (state, region of the US, urban, rural etc.…).
Food for thought: Is the impact of the individual’s intersectional identity further exacerbated by the geographic location where the individual resides? Describe how the individual interacts with their larger environment. Did their behavior or engagement with their larger environment change based on their engagement with the system? (e.g., they were rejected by the Veteran’s Administration for disability related health benefits thus creating a distrust of government systems).
Bringing it all together: Culturally responsive practice with respect to one’s professional perspective is required in the social work profession. You must maintain self-awareness about intersectional identities and how your perspective of those shapes our professional identity with implications for practice. For the final piece of this paper, you will need to critically reflect on your own intersecting identities and the potential for these to impact your practice.
Food for thought: Have your life experiences impacted your understanding of systemic oppression, and discrimination in our larger society and the larger system of focus? Social work is an action-oriented profession. How can an Intersectionality Framework assist you in analyzing issues and use this to make individual and systemic changes?
Directions and Grading Criteria
Category Points Description
Introduction to: purpose of the paper, individual of focus and large system 20 Introduction to the purpose of the paper, the individual of focus and the large system
Assess the individual and specific interactions with the large system using Intersectional Theory 30
Assessment using Intersectional Theory of the identified individual and their interactions with the large system
Description of geographic location in which individual resides 20 Provides a description of the geographic location where the individual resides (e.g., includes impact of geographic location, how interactions are impacted and how this impacts interactions with larger society)
Critical reflection of your intersecting identities and potential impact on practice 20 Provides a critical reflection of intersecting identities and the potential impact on future professional practice
Quality of writing 10 Writing is objective in tone, clear, with no grammatical errors, and follows APA format.
Total 100 A quality essay will meet or exceed all of the above requirements.
