Question: Applying Critical Social Work to Practice

Weight: 40%
Type of Collaboration: Individual
Due: 27 April 2025, 11:59 PM
Submission: Turnitin
Format: Essay
Length: 2,000 words

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Instructions:

This essay asks you to analyze the prospects of Critical Social Work as applied to practice settings.

You are required to:
Develop a case study from your first placement, your place of work in a human services agency, or a hypothetical situation on a field of interest to you.

The term ‘case study’ is broad and could refer to:
• A specific intervention at an individual level
• An example of organizational policy
• A community setting focus

International students may wish to focus on an example from their country of origin if they wish to do so.

Essay Structure (Three Parts):
1. Briefly describe the context of your topic, including a brief overview of the agency and the case study you will be discussing, and the rationale for your selection.
2. Analytically discuss how critical social work practice could be applied to this context, selecting one or more theories that are relevant, such as:
• Human rights
• Anti-oppressive practice
(Note: The first lecture will provide an overview of critical social work theories, which, together with prescribed readings, will guide the analysis.)
3. Discuss the barriers that might exist to introducing a critical social work perspective to your chosen case study.
• Example: Agencies emphasizing more conventional modes of service based on psychological theories or systems theories.

Marking Criteria:
1. Articulation of the case study (25%)
2. Knowledge of critical social work theories and their application (50%)
3. Presentation of barriers (25%)

At least 10 academic references should be used, including books, scholarly book chapters, and refereed journal articles.

MBA 5003 – Assessment 3 Operations Plan – Weightage 40% Guidelines

Assignment Tasks
This assessment will require students to develop a detailed Operations Plan for an operation relating to a specific product (not a company) to be delivered across international borders from one country to another. The main assignment tasks are the following
1. Identify a specific product (not a company) with which you are familiar. Provide a brief description of the product
2. Describe, in general, the key operations in this company and how these operations relate to the company’s strategy, its competitive priorities, and the key performance indicators used by the company
3. Using the operations model presented in Unit 5003 Modules A, B, and C, define in detail one of these operations, clearly identifying the transforming and transformed resources, the transformation process, and the outputs and outcomes of the operation
4. Provide a critical review of this key operation and its management that might underpin its future improvement and contribution to the company’s competitive priorities 5. Present this in an Operations Plan for this operation (based on your analysis and review) which highlights the resources and key management decisions that might need to be made to secure improvement in the operation.

Write a 2,000-word report on a given case study concerning the mid-late adulthood stage of development. You will need to score and interpret a series of brief assessments, identify factors that contribute to the issues, ascertain a possible diagnosis and provide recommendations for intervention(s), linking them to relevant theories/models.

Instructions

For this assessment, you will be provided with a written case study relating to an adult psychological disorder (cognitive-behavioural). Using the DSM-5-TR diagnostic criteria to identify a possible diagnosis, you will need to analyse the factors that may have contributed to or are maintaining the problem (refer back to the 4Ps —predisposing, precipitating, perpetuating and protective factors). Suggest an evidence-based treatment plan suitable for the client’s presenting problem and consider whether your assessment, diagnosis, formulation and treatment plan are culturally appropriate. Include the steps you will take to promote cultural awareness, responsiveness and safety.

Case study:

Access the case materials below which contains the following information:

Background information

Assessment information

Completed DASS-21 questionnaire

SMMSE questions, SMMSE responses and scoring guidelines

Structure :

The report should be written in academic language and in the third person. You should include the following headings:

Background and presenting issue: Briefly outline the case, including demographics and the main presenting issues. You should orient the reader with a succinct summary of who the client is and what they are seeking treatment for.

Assessment scoring and interpretation: Score and interpret the scores from standardised psychometric assessments . You will be provided with the client’s responses to formal questionnaires, the associated scoring keys and interpretative information. Comment on your interpretation of these scores in the context of your client’s presenting problem.

Diagnosis: Use examples from the client’s presentation to compare these to the criteria for a relevant DSM-5-TR disorder. Discuss and provide a concluding statement about whether the client’s symptoms meet all diagnostic criteria. Briefly identify possible alternative diagnoses, providing reasons for inclusion or exclusion.

Formulation/analysis: Identify the predisposing vulnerabilities and precipitating (triggers), perpetuating (maintaining) and protective factors. Explain how/why these factors may underlie your client’s symptoms. Apply one or more evidence-based theories/models to account for the onset and maintenance of the disorder’s symptoms.

Recommendations: Create a plan for a future course of action based on your assessment, diagnosis and formulation. Provide an overview of an appropriate evidence-based approach and justify why this would be a suitable intervention to use with the client. Include any particular strategies that would need to be considered for the treatment to be culturally appropriate for this client. Consider and outline any potential limitations of the treatment approach.

References:

You should include in-text citations and a reference list in APA 7th format. It is expected that at least seven high-quality and relevant scholarly resources will be included to sufficiently support your analysis of the case and the assessment and treatment recommendations.

Write a 2,000-word report on a given case study concerning the mid-late adulthood stage of development. You will need to score and interpret a series of brief assessments, identify factors that contribute to the issues, ascertain a possible diagnosis and provide recommendations for intervention(s), linking them to relevant theories/models.

Instructions

For this assessment, you will be provided with a written case study relating to an adult psychological disorder (cognitive-behavioural). Using the DSM-5-TR diagnostic criteria to identify a possible diagnosis, you will need to analyse the factors that may have contributed to or are maintaining the problem (refer back to the 4Ps —predisposing, precipitating, perpetuating and protective factors). Suggest an evidence-based treatment plan suitable for the client’s presenting problem and consider whether your assessment, diagnosis, formulation and treatment plan are culturally appropriate. Include the steps you will take to promote cultural awareness, responsiveness and safety.

Case study:

Access the case materials below which contains the following information:

Background information

Assessment information

Completed DASS-21 questionnaire

SMMSE questions, SMMSE responses and scoring guidelines

Structure :

The report should be written in academic language and in the third person. You should include the following headings:

Background and presenting issue: Briefly outline the case, including demographics and the main presenting issues. You should orient the reader with a succinct summary of who the client is and what they are seeking treatment for.

Assessment scoring and interpretation: Score and interpret the scores from standardised psychometric assessments . You will be provided with the client’s responses to formal questionnaires, the associated scoring keys and interpretative information. Comment on your interpretation of these scores in the context of your client’s presenting problem.

Diagnosis: Use examples from the client’s presentation to compare these to the criteria for a relevant DSM-5-TR disorder. Discuss and provide a concluding statement about whether the client’s symptoms meet all diagnostic criteria. Briefly identify possible alternative diagnoses, providing reasons for inclusion or exclusion.

Formulation/analysis: Identify the predisposing vulnerabilities and precipitating (triggers), perpetuating (maintaining) and protective factors. Explain how/why these factors may underlie your client’s symptoms. Apply one or more evidence-based theories/models to account for the onset and maintenance of the disorder’s symptoms.

Recommendations: Create a plan for a future course of action based on your assessment, diagnosis and formulation. Provide an overview of an appropriate evidence-based approach and justify why this would be a suitable intervention to use with the client. Include any particular strategies that would need to be considered for the treatment to be culturally appropriate for this client. Consider and outline any potential limitations of the treatment approach.

References:

You should include in-text citations and a reference list in APA 7th format. It is expected that at least seven high-quality and relevant scholarly resources will be included to sufficiently support your analysis of the case and the assessment and treatment recommendations.

Hi,

Please see attached the assignment ‘BSBWHS616 Assessment 2’ file. I don’t know how many words it is to be honest.

Also, see attached the Table of Contents, please follow the exact word-to-word table of contents and use them as heading and subheadings for the assignment, no changes needed for the table of contents.

Also see attached for reference for completing the assignment:

1). My college’s Learner Guide and PowerPoint presentation slides.

2). A sample Safety design report: http://projectcorp.com.au/wordpress/projectfiles/St%20Johns%20College%20Administration%20Building/03.%20Reports/Safe%20Design%20Report.pdf

3). Queensland Urban Utilities website : https://www.urbanutilities.com.au/residential/faqs/home-maintenance

4). ARTC : https://www.artc.com.au/

The main aim of this assessment is to assume that we are engaged by a civil engineering organization that undertakes civil engineering and design for public infrastructure works.

Please pick a real civil engineering organisation and a real task for the ‘ARTC’ website. I’ll confirm with my professor tomorrow morning and let you know.

Awaiting a quote,

Thank you

Rajas J