SWB215 assessment One task description: essay

SWB215 assessment One task description: essay

Task Assessment 1 Essay50%

Word count: up to 2200 + refs

Revised Due Date: Week 8 Friday 13/9/24 at 11.59pm

OVERVIEW

This assignment is designed to give students the opportunity to focus on some of the underpinning aspects of a critical social work approach to crises, trauma and addiction and to apply to relevant scenarios.

EXPECTATIONS REGARDING USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLEIGENCE AND CHAT GPT

It is acknowledged that students may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Chat GPT as part of research processes. Students should be aware that use of AI and Chat GPT in a way that contravenes QUT academic integrity policy and plagiarism, students will be marked accordingly and if appropriate referred for Academic misconduct processes.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

You will write an essay using ideas from or relevant to critical social work, choosing one of the following four scenarios:

SCENARIO 1: The disaster of climate change and working with climate refugees

Climate change has challenged the notion of natural disasters and is predicted to produce millions of climate refugees in the future. Social service and health workers need to be well prepared for what this is likely to entail.

Choose ONE of the following groups to analyse:

low income Australians displaced by recent bushfires; OR

Pacific Islander communities facing rising sea levels; OR

a remote Indigenous community in Australia that has limited or no access to clean running water.

Steps

Introduction: Provide a brief overview of your chosen scenario and the group you are going to analyse (100 words)

Discuss the challenges of social work as it applies to people that are affected in your chosen scenario (400 words)

Identify two to three (2-3) key principles/practices of Critical Social Work in diverse populations.(600 words)

Using evidence-based research and practice, critically discuss how you would integrate these principles/practices in your social work practice with these diverse groups and communities as it applies to the chosen scenario. (1000 words)

Conclusion (150 words)

List of references (QUT APA)

SCEANRIO 2: The crisis of abuse and risks of addiction for survivors

While love and abuse shouldnt coexist, they often do and for most victims produce a legacy of trauma, including the increased risk of addiction.

Choose a group to analyse, such as:

heterosexual women domestically abused by male partners; OR

children sexually abused by a relative (uncle, aunt, parent, sibling, cousin etc); OR

transgender young people abused by parents for being trans.

Steps

Introduction: Provide a brief overview of your chosen scenario and the group you are going to analyse (100 words)

Discuss the challenges of social work as it applies to people that are affected in your chosen scenario (400 words)

Identify two to three (2-3) key principles/practices of Critical Social Work in diverse populations.(600 words)

Using evidence-based research and practice, critically discuss how you would integrate these principles/practices in your social work practice with these diverse groups and communities as it applies to the chosen scenario. (1000 words)

Conclusion (150 words)

List of references (QUT APA)

SCENARIO 3: Using the Stages of Change Model and Motivational Interviewing with a chosen group who are traumatised and addicted

The Stages of Change Model and Motivational Interviewing are widely in Australian alcohol and other drugs treatment centres. In recent years they have also been adopted in a range of other settings, such as corrections, child protection/safety, and veteran affairs.

Choose a group to analyse, who you are to assume they are chronically dependent on drugs, alcohol, gambling or gaming to self-soothe, such as:

returned veterans with post-traumatic stress; OR

impoverished post-release Adult prisoners (any gender) traumatised by multiple foster care placements during childhood; OR

unemployed parents who have had at least one child removed by Child Protection due to addiction issues.

Steps

Introduction: Provide a brief overview of your chosen scenario and the group you are going to analyse (100 words)

Discuss the challenges of social work as it applies to people that are affected in your chosen scenario (400 words)

Identify two to three (2-3) key principles/practices of Critical Social Work in diverse populations.(600 words)

Using evidence-based research and practice, critically discuss how you would integrate these principles/practices in your social work practice with these diverse groups and communities as it applies to the chosen scenario. (1000 words)

Conclusion (150 words)

List of references (QUT APA)

SCENARIO 4: Exploring the utility of the term addiction.

Using critical social work ideas, discuss the utility of the term addiction for understanding and responding to ONE of the following practices:

Gambling

Substance use

Hoarding

Compulsive cosmetic surgery

Binge and over-eating

Steps

Introduction: Provide a brief overview of your chosen scenario and the group you are going to analyse (100 words)

Discuss the challenges of social work as it applies to people that are affected in your chosen scenario (400 words)

Identify two to three (2-3) key principles/practices of Critical Social Work in diverse populations.(600 words)

Using evidence-based research and practice, critically discuss how you would integrate these principles/practices in your social work practice with these diverse groups and communities as it applies to the chosen scenario. (1000 words)

Conclusion (150 words)

List of references (QUT APA)

Note: it is possible for critical social workers to argue for or against the utility of the term addiction. It will depend on how you build your argument, paying attention to questions about power, social status, stigma and perhaps the morality of willpower or self control.

WHAT YOU WILL SUBMIT

A written essay, which you are free to format in your preferred way. However, you present the material, the work needs to:

Be clearly focussed

Be critically analytical

Demonstrate thorough reading and research

Include an introduction and conclusion

Respond to all parts of the chosen question

Use thoughtful illustrative examples

Reference prescribed readings

Be well structured, written and edited

Abide by referencing conventions.

SUBMISSION CHECKLIST

To help prepare and organise your paper, please ensure that:

you have used the Microsoft word for your paper and the marking criteria is attached to this word file;

you have named your Word document: SWB215 Essay or Assignment 1 NOT saved it as a PDF file;you have edited your writing, spelling and grammar to ensure there are few, if any, mistakes;Please use 1.5 or double line spacing.

all in-text references are correctly listed in your Reference List;all literature in the Reference List has been referred to somewhere within the body of your essay;your work meets the requirements for academic integrity in drawing on the work of others;

your choice of referencing style is APA. (See Cite Write for further information);you have checked your work against the CRA.

HOW YOU WILL SUBMIT

Submission of this assessment is required to be lodged ONLINE via CANVAS (link in the assessment folder) by Week 8 13/9/24 at 11.59pm