BSW4802 Assignment 1 (ANSWERS) 2024 - DISTINCTION GUARANTEED

BSW4802 Assignment 1 (ANSWERS) 2024 - DISTINCTION GUARANTEED Answers, guidelines, workings and references .................... A social worker working in an outpatient mental health clinic and is part of a multi-disciplinary team assisting clients with mental health problems. The social worker is also responsible to initiate group work and community work projects in the community where the clinic is residing. George is brought to a community outpatient mental health clinic due to his parent’s observation that he is “not acting like a normal 13-year-old.” George did show great talent and potential to develop as a soccer player but decided to quit the sport without any reason. They brought him to the clinic because they think he is suffering from the same mental illness his mother has, and the last straw was that he was found with marijuana in his bedroom. The family reports a long and detailed family history of substance abuse. George’s mother was a gifted artist but because of her depression she did not pursue her career in painting further. George’s father was a leader in initiating religious studies for church members, but started to withdraw from assisting as a leader in the church when his wife was diagnosed with depression. George’s mother lives with debilitating symptoms of anxiety and intermittent depressive episodes. The community in which the mental health clinic is rendering services is a neighbourhood charaterised by adolescents who are experimenting with drugs. Most of the parents in the area are ignorant about the impact of using drugs on adolescents’ development and are not equipped with the necessary skills to deal with the adolescents experimenting with drugs. 1. Elaborate on the guidelines from a strengths perspective that the social worker will apply when intervening with the family. (10) 2. The second step of the Generalist Intervention Model (GIM) is the assessment phase. Propose the steps of an assessment you as a social worker will conduct, and the type of questions you will ask the family during the assessment phase from a strength perspective. (15) 18 3. Recommend and explain FIVE different roles a social worker will fulfil in a multidisciplinary team in the clinic setting illustrated in the case study. (5) 4. The social worker may decide to do group work with teenagers experimenting with drugs who are part of the clinic’s client system. Explain the factors which you as a social worker will consider in the pre-group planning and beginning phase of a group work series. (15) 5. Identify four types of groups a social worker can conduct and choose and motivate the type of group which will be appropriate to conduct with teenagers experimenting with drugs. (10) 6. The social worker wants to facilitate a group work session about the dangers of marijuana (dagga) abuse. Propose the outline of such a session. (5) 7. Select and motivate which practice model of Weyers (2011) can be implemented to assist the community as described in the case study. (5) 8. The social worker has certain primary roles to fulfil for the specific selected practice model of Weyers (2011). Elaborate on the specific roles as described in Weyers (2011) the social worker will fulfil in the implementation of the specific practice model. (5) 9. The second step in the community work process is the identifying and analysing of the impediments. Compile the tasks to be completed by the social worker FOR THE SECOND STEP according to Weyers (2011) for the chosen practice model. (20)