Overview
CASE STUDY
(Approximately ½ to 1 page MINIMUM - this page minimum does not include the cover, abstract, or references pages, which are required as well)
In this first section of your paper, please provide a short case study about a human service situation. The situation should involve a family or individual (such as a Department of Child and Family Services or probation department hypothetical case) or other network or system with multiple stakeholders (e.g. a community based issue that needs to be addressed by a non-profit agency). Please note that your action research project should be related to your area of concentration within the MSHSV program. Please work with your instructor to be sure that the case study meets the requirements of your concentration.
Please provide information in your case such as:
- Who is involved and why? What are the individual(s) demographic information such as age, gender, race, socioeconomic status, medical history, or cultural factors that are important to the study. What other information could be helpful?
- Why has this individual, family, or system been identified as being “in need” and would be worthy of an action research study? What types of problems or situations have occurred that attention has been brought to this individual, family, or system? What is the nature of the problem(s) and history (how long it has been occurring, etc.). Are there psychological problems? Legal? Medical? Financial? Neglect? Abuse? Lack of resources?
- Please provide specific and clear details and examples about the “problems” that are occurring and why this situation continues to need an intervention by way of action research.
- Please utilize the syllabus for this course to better understand the exact instructions for this written assignment.
- Assignments should be written in the format of the most current edition of the APA manual.
- Each paper must be submitted via Blackboard and emailed copies will not be accepted.
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- Each paper must be double spaced with size 12 Times New Roman font and 1 inch margins on all sides. Please use complete sentences, appropriate grammar, spelling, and references.
- You will also be required to use in-text references in your work in accordance with APA style to avoid plagiarism. Information to help with your writing is provided under the APA resources section of the course information tab.
- Plagiarism detection software will be used to scan each paper and any paper that is determined to have academic integrity issues will earn a score of 0 automatically. In preparing your submissions, please avoid using any information that you have previously submitted for credit in this or any other course for credit (self-plagiarism). This is not allowable according to the university and APA. Please see the information on the course information section of the course for more detailed information.
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