Assignment Overview
The social work profession is consistently exploring how technology should be used, instead of asking how social work professionals can effectively use it, manipulate it, and leverage it to meet needs. Subsequently, the adoption of technology has been slow in the profession; yet a host of social media resources are readily available and widely used in other professions. Ultimately, social workers must become familiar with the new technologies that inform practice.
By successfully completing this assignment, you demonstrate your proficiency in the following competencies and specialized behaviors.
- Competency 1: Demonstrate ethical and professional behavior.
- C1.SP.B: Guided by best advanced generalist practice skills, apply professional behavior and leadership skills in oral, written, and electronic communication with diverse individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities in the specialization of advanced generalist practice.
- Related Assignment Criterion:
- 3: Describe how the ethics and values, access, and cultural competence standards can be used to help address a social or economic injustice through the use of technology.
- Related Assignment Criterion:
- C1.SP.C: Integrate the ethical and effective use of technology at all levels of practice in the specialization of advanced generalist social work with diverse individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
- Related Assignment Criterion:
- 3: Describe how the ethics and values, access, and cultural competence standards can be used to help address a social or economic injustice through the use of technology.
- 4. Explain how technology can promote efforts to reduce a particular social, economic, or environmental injustice.
- Related Assignment Criterion:
- C1.SP.B: Guided by best advanced generalist practice skills, apply professional behavior and leadership skills in oral, written, and electronic communication with diverse individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities in the specialization of advanced generalist practice.
- Competency 2: Engage diversity and difference in practice.
- C2.SP.A: Apply leadership skills, decision making, and ethical use of technology, when engaging in interprofessional collaborative practice to advocate for the advancement of human rights with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities to ensure that social resources, rights, and responsibilities are distributed equitably in the specialization of advanced generalist practice.
- Related Assignment Criterion:
- 5: Explain the benefits of using the technology standards to inform work in an online environment.
- Related Assignment Criterion:
- C2.SP.B: Engage in leadership practices by critically evaluating the distribution of power and privilege in society and engage in reflective professional practices that promote and advance human rights, social, racial, health, economic, and environmental justice in the specialization of advanced generalist practice.
- Related Assignment Criterion:
- 1. Describe a given social, economic, or environmental issue.
- 2. Explain the rationale behind the choice of a particular social, economic, or environmental injustice to be addressed.
- Related Assignment Criterion:
- C2.SP.A: Apply leadership skills, decision making, and ethical use of technology, when engaging in interprofessional collaborative practice to advocate for the advancement of human rights with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities to ensure that social resources, rights, and responsibilities are distributed equitably in the specialization of advanced generalist practice.
- Competency 3: Advance human rights and social, economic, and environmental justice.
- C3.SP.A: Demonstrate how diversity and intersectionality shape human experiences and apply anti-racist and anti-oppressive intervention techniques and technologies with diverse individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities in the specialization of advanced generalized practice.
- Related Assignment Criterion:
- 3: Describe how the ethics and values, access, and cultural competence standards can be used to help address a social or economic injustice through the use of technology.
- Related Assignment Criterion:
- C3.SP.A: Demonstrate how diversity and intersectionality shape human experiences and apply anti-racist and anti-oppressive intervention techniques and technologies with diverse individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities in the specialization of advanced generalized practice.
- Competency 6: Engage with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
- C6.SP.A: Critically evaluate theories of human behavior, person in environment, and interpersonal conceptual frameworks to facilitate engagement with diverse individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities in the specialization of advanced generalist practice.
- Related Assignment Criterion:
- 6: Explain how to engage, assess, intervene, and evaluate practice (micro, mezzo, or macro) with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and/or communities while using technology to address an injustice.
- Related Assignment Criterion:
- C6.SP.A: Critically evaluate theories of human behavior, person in environment, and interpersonal conceptual frameworks to facilitate engagement with diverse individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities in the specialization of advanced generalist practice.
Assignment Description
There are a host of online resources that promote effective networking, client engagement, and advocacy. The purpose of this assignment is to identify the benefits and ethical considerations associated with using technology as an adjunct to social work practice. To gain insight on the guidelines that govern social work professionals' use of technology.
Assignment Instructions
For this assignment:
- Choose and describe a social, economic, or environmental injustice that you have an interest in addressing, such as abuse, social welfare, human rights, marginalized communities, neglect, or social policy. Provide a rationale for your choice.
- Describe how the ethics and values, access, and cultural competence standards can be used to help address the social, economic, or environmental injustice through the use of technology.
- Explain how technology can promote your efforts to reduce or eliminate the injustice.
- Explain the benefits of using the technology standards to inform your work in an online environment.
- Explain how to engage, assess, intervene, and evaluate practice (micro, mezzo, or macro) with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and/or communities while using technology to address an injustice.
Note: Your instructor will provide feedback on your assignment. Use this feedback when you develop the content of your Week 10 assignment.
Additional Requirements
Your assignment should 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. Ul.
- Resources: A minimum of five scholarly sources. All literature cited should be current, with publication dates within the past five years. If you need help finding sources in the Capella University Library
- Length of paper: A minimum of three double-spaced pages.
- Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
- Competency 13: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for members of the social work profession.
- Convey purpose in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.
- Competency 2: Guided by best advanced generalist practice skills, apply professional behavior and leadership skills in oral, written, and electronic communication with diverse individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities in the specialization of advanced generalist practice. (C1.SP.B)
- Describe how the NASW Code of Ethics and the NASW Standards for Cultural Competence in Social Work Practice can be used to help address a social, economic, or environmental injustice through the use of technology. (C1.SP.B, C1.SP.C, C3.SP.A)
- Competency 3: Integrate the ethical and effective use of technology at all levels of practice in the specialization of advanced generalist social work with diverse individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities. (C1.SP.C)
- Explain how technology can promote efforts to reduce a particular social, economic, or environmental injustice. (C1.SP.C)
- Competency 4: Critically evaluate theories of human behavior, person in environment, and interpersonal conceptual frameworks to facilitate engagement with diverse individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities in the specialization of advanced generalist practice. (C6.SP.A)
- Explain how to engage, assess, intervene, and evaluate practice (micro, mezzo, or macro) with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and/or communities while using technology to address an injustice. (C6.SP.A)
- Competency 5: Engage in leadership practices by critically evaluating the distribution of power and privilege in society and engage in reflective professional practices that promote and advance human rights, social, racial, health, economic, and environmental justice in the specialization of advanced generalist practice. (C2.SP.B)
- Describe a given social, economic, or environmental issue. (C2.SP.B)
- Explain the rationale behind the choice of a particular social, economic, or environmental injustice to be addressed. (C2.SP.B)
- Competency 7: Apply leadership skills, decision making, and ethical use of technology, when engaging in interprofessional collaborative practice to advocate for the advancement of human rights with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities to ensure that social resources, rights, and responsibilities are distributed equitably in the specialization of advanced generalist practice. (C2.SP.A)
- Explain the benefits of using the technology standards to inform work in an online environment. (C2.SP.A)