Assignment Overview
The purpose of this assignment is for you to critically analyze social policy and the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Code of Ethics. By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following EPAS and general practices:
- Competency 1: Demonstrate Ethical and Professional Behavior.
- C1.GP.A: Make ethical decisions by applying the standards of the National Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics, relevant laws and regulations, models for ethical decision making, ethical conduct of research, and additional codes of ethics within the profession as appropriate to the context.
- Related Assignment Criteria:
- Explain how the NASW Code of Ethics guided decision making in work with the client or client system.
- Describe how the NASW Code of Ethics was applied by the learner in a field experience with professional staff, support staff, other clients, and in community work as an intern.
- Related Assignment Criteria:
- C1.GP.A: Make ethical decisions by applying the standards of the National Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics, relevant laws and regulations, models for ethical decision making, ethical conduct of research, and additional codes of ethics within the profession as appropriate to the context.
- Competency 2: Advance Human Rights and Social, Racial, Economic, and Environmental Justice.
- C2.GP.A: Advocate for human rights at the individual, family, group, organizational, and community system levels:
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- Analyze the social policy's influence and impact on the client or client population, including social, economic, and environmental justice issues.
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- C2.GP.B: Engage in practices that advance human rights to promote social, racial, economic, and environmental justice.
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- Explain how the social policy addresses diversity and difference in practice at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels.
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- C2.GP.A: Advocate for human rights at the individual, family, group, organizational, and community system levels:
- Competency 3: Engage Anti-Racism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ADEI) in Practice.
- C3.GP.B: Demonstrate cultural humility by applying critical reflection, self-awareness, and self-regulation to manage the influence of bias, power, privilege, and values in working with clients and constituencies, acknowledging them as experts of their own lived experiences.
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- Analyze diversity and difference while demonstrating cultural humility by clearly identifying issues related to bias, power, privilege, and values as related to this case, providing clear examples.
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- C3.GP.B: Demonstrate cultural humility by applying critical reflection, self-awareness, and self-regulation to manage the influence of bias, power, privilege, and values in working with clients and constituencies, acknowledging them as experts of their own lived experiences.
- Competency 4: Engage in Practice-Informed Research and Research-Informed Practice.
- C4.GP.A: Apply research findings to inform and improve practice, policy, and programs.
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- Apply a human behavior theory, using multiple sources.
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- 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.
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- Identify research that is ethical, culturally informed, anti-racist, or anti-oppressive or acknowledges the cultural bias or limitations of research, while clearly explaining this categorization.
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- C4.GP.A: Apply research findings to inform and improve practice, policy, and programs.
- 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 a social policy that impacts the client or client system.
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- 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.
- 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 Criteria:
- Describe how the human behavior theory can assist with understanding a client and the client's problems and issues.
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- C6.GP.B: Use empathy, reflection, and interpersonal skills to engage in culturally responsive practice with clients and constituencies.
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- Describe how empathy, reflection, and interpersonal skills may be used to engage others in advocacy efforts, for client systems through applying the social policy.
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- C6.GP.A: Apply knowledge of human behavior and person-in-environment, as well as interprofessional conceptual frameworks, to engage with clients and constituencies.
- 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.
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- Apply the human behavior theory to work with the client or client system.
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- 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.
Assignment Description
In this assignment, you will review the assignment from Week 4, Client Case Study, and consider how theory and professional practice assist in understanding a client or client system. You will develop a scholarly paper that shows a
Assignment Instructions
Review concepts from the Human Behavior in the Social Environment courses (SWK5003 and SWK5005). Then:
- Apply and analyze one human behavior theory (for example, systems theory, psychodynamic theory, social learning theory) that can be applied in your work with the client or client system presented in the Week 4 Client Case Study assignment. As part of your analysis:
- Define the theory.
- Use the Capella University Library to research studies and literature to support your selection, definition, description, use, and analysis of the theory.
- Describe how the theory can assist you with understanding the client and their problems and issues.
- Apply the human behavior theory to work with the client or client system.
- Consider the research and EITHER clearly identify research that is ethical, culturally informed, anti-racist, or anti-oppressive OR acknowledge the cultural bias or limitations of the research. Clearly explain the categorization and provide evidence to support this categorization.
Review concepts from the Social Policy courses (SWK5002 and SWK5006). Then:
- Choose one social policy (national, state, or organizational) that impacts the client or client system.
- Describe the policy.
- Analyze the policy's influence and impact on the client or client population, including social, economic, and environmental justice issues.
- Explain how the policy addresses diversity and difference in practice at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels.
- Describe how empathy, reflection, and interpersonal skills may be used to engage others in advocacy efforts for client systems through applying the social policy.
- Consider diversity and difference and demonstrate cultural humility by clearly identifying issues related to bias, power, privilege, and values as it relates to this case
- Explain how you have applied the Code of Ethics in your work with the client or client system.
- Explain how the Code of Ethics guided your decision making in your work with the client or client system.
- Describe how you have applied the Code of Ethics in the field experience with professional staff, support staff, other clients, and in your community work as an intern.
Additional Requirements
The assignment you submit 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.
- Cited resources: Minimum of five scholarly sources. All literature cited should be current, with publication dates within the past five years.
- Length of paper: 3–4 double-spaced pages, not including the title and reference 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 rubric criteria:
- Competency 1: Demonstrate ethical and professional behavior. (Competency 1)
- Explain how the NASW Code of Ethics guided decision making in work with the client or client system. (C1.GP.A)
- Describe how the NASW Code of Ethics was applied by the learner in a field experience with professional staff, support staff, other clients, and in community work as an intern. (C1.GP.A)
- Competency 2: Advance human rights and social, racial, economic, and environmental justice. (Competency 2)
- Analyze the social policy's influence and impact on the client or client population, including social, economic, and environmental justice issues. (C2.GP.A)
- Explain how the social policy addresses diversity and difference in practice at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels. (C2.GP.B)
- Competency 3: Engage anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion (ADEI) in practice. (Competency 3)
- Analyze diversity and difference while demonstrating cultural humility by clearly identifying issues related to bias, power, privilege, and values as related to this case, providing clear examples. (C3.GP.B)
- Competency 4: Engage in practice-informed research and research-informed practice. (Competency 4)
- Apply a human behavior theory, using multiple sources of research. (C4.GP.A)
- Identify research that is ethical, culturally informed, anti-racist, or anti-oppressive or acknowledges the cultural bias or limitations research, while clearly explaining this categorization. (C4.GP.B)
- Competency 5: Engage in policy practice. (Competency 5)
- Describe a social policy that impacts the client or client system. (C5.GP.A)
- Competency 6: Engage with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities. (Competency 6)
- Describe how the human behavior theory can assist with understanding a client and the client's problems and issues. (C6.GP.A)
- Describe how empathy, reflection, and interpersonal skills may be used to engage others in advocacy efforts, for client systems through applying the social policy. (C6.GP.B)
- Competency 7: Assess individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities. (Competency 7)
- Apply the human behavior theory to work with the client or client system. (C7.GP.A)
- Competency 10: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for members of the social work profession.
- Apply the standard writing conventions for the discipline, including structure, voice, person, and tone.