BSW4802 Assignment 3 (ANSWERS) 2024 - DISTINCTION GUARANTEED

BSW4802 Assignment 3 (ANSWERS) 2024 - DISTINCTION GUARANTEED Answers, guidelines, workings and references .................... Mr and Mrs Morake are living in one of the suburbs of Polokwane. The suburb is in an old part of the city, and many immigrants are moving into the neighbourhood. Because of the immigrants who are moving into the area, the community experiences discord, conflict, poor co-operation between community members and want the government to address their problems. The Morake couple have been married for 35 years and have two sons, Gift, who lives in Cape Town and Thabo, who is 30 years old and lives with them. Thabo has a cognitive and learning disability. Mrs Morake gave up her work as a nurse when Thabo was 16 years of age to support him. Mr Morake retired three years ago as a teacher. Thabo volunteers at a local charity a few days a week, helping with teas and coffees. Thabo receives a disability grant for the government. He would like to live independently. Mr and Mrs Morake are worried this won’t work. Thabo is well known in the local community because he likes to hang out in the local café playing games and chat to friends. He is also known to the police due to a few incidents where he has been violent when he does not get his way. Thabo is often misunderstood as it is not immediately clear that he has a cognitive and learning disability, (with a mental ability of a child of twelve years of age) and people who don’t know him can react to his behaviour. Mr and Mrs Morake support Thabo to ensure he is washed and dressed appropriately, has had his medication (given for aggressive behaviour that is part of his cognitive disability) and is adequately supervised at home. Sometimes Thabo refuses his medication and leaves the house without his parents’ knowledge to join friends at the shopping centre playing games. Thabo likes to be involved in wood crafting and his parents encourage him to pursue this hobby. Mr and Mrs Morake love their son; however they are exhausted and feel undervalued by providing his care. They have had to make choices to put Thabo first, have few friends and rely on each other. Mr and Mrs Morake recently rang the Council for Persons with Disabilities and asked for a social worker to talk to them about their situation. This non-profit organisation is specifically focused on rendering preventative and early BSW4802/101/0/2024 23 intervention services and follows the solution-focused perspective to assist persons with disabilities and their families. 1. Propose all the different levels of intervention for social welfare service delivery and specifically elaborate on the prevention and early intervention levels which is the focus of the Council for Persons with Disabilities. (10) 2. Compose an assessment guideline from a solution-based perspective which you as a social worker will use to assess the family in the above case study scenario. (10) 3. The third step in the Generalist Intervention model (GIM) is planning. Outline the characteristics of the planning process of the GIM. (10) 4. The Council for Persons with Disabilities did not mention any groupwork that the social workers conducted. If you need to start a support group for families living with a person with a disability, what will you suggest will be the factors taken in consideration for the structuring and composition of such a group? [15] 4.1 Structure of the group (10) 4.2 Composition of the group (5) 5. When conducting groupwork with families who have a person with a disability living with them, and one of your topics will be the discussion of applying for social assistance. Elaborate on the type of grant and the conditions the family needs to meet to apply for such a grant. (5) 6. Recommend key aspects which need attention during the termination phase of a group work series. (10) 7. Select and motivate the specific practice model of Weyers (2011) applicable to the case study scenario. (5) 8. The social worker doing community work has specific primary roles according to Weyers (2011) to fulfil for the specific practice model chosen. Please comment on the primary and specific roles for the chosen practice model. (10) 24 9. Participatory assessment techniques (PAT) can be used as a data collection method to do a thorough situation analysis of the community. Explain the four basic steps or phases of the PAT according to Weyers (2011:189). (15)