Explain the distinct roles of each of the professionals in this scenario. Indicate how these roles are similar and how they differ with examples to support your findings. Determine which specific factors in the scenario necessitated a social work perspective.

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Evaluate the Roles and Responsibilities of IC in a Health Care Setting

This week, you explored IC between social workers and other types of health care professionals. For this assignment, review the following case study:

Ms. Anderson is caring for her 4-year-old identical twin sons along with two older daughters in a small apartment in a rural community. The twins need medical infusion services to control hemophilia, a rare bleeding disorder. Ms. Anderson’s nephew recently died from the disorder and she, as well as the other children in the household, have a profound fear response to any bleeding symptoms the twins experience. Also, the family faces a set of other challenges. The children’s father is not present, nor does he contribute financially. The father’s relationship with Ms. Anderson is strained and can be violent at times. Ms. Anderson does not have any other family support in the area. She recently lost her job at a grocery store and would like to start her own business to allow her more flexibility to care for her medically fragile children. Ms. Anderson has had limited training on how to manage her sons’ disorder and how to appropriately administer the life-saving infusion. The family participates in the Medicaid program for health care coverage, which allows for limited nursing services in the home. The nursing visits are complicated, as the children are often not well behaved when providers are in the home to administer infusion or training. The nurses referred the family to a MSW social worker to address the behavioral and pain/fear issues. The RN and MSW were able to arrange joint in-home visits with the family. The MSW worked with the mother on her needle phobia as well as other long-range goals and referrals for the family. The MSW provided mindfulness-based stress reduction, behavioral management for the children, and grief counseling regarding the nephew. The RN provided the infusion/hemophilia education, cognitive restructuring regarding the needle phobia, and pain quantification. After several months of the IC visit approach, Ms. Anderson demonstrated an increased knowledge base of the bleeding disorder, progress on the needle phobia, and stress reduction via the mindfulness-based techniques. The children became more cooperative. Ultimately, the family achieved complete independence from requiring the in-home visits within 60 days.

Based on the information in the case study, address the following:

Explain the distinct roles of each of the professionals in this scenario. Indicate how these roles are similar and how they differ with examples to support your findings.
Determine which specific factors in the scenario necessitated a social work perspective.
Analyze the specific social work skills the social worker employed in this situation to increase the effectiveness of the IC.
Recommend additional skills, resources, or services the social worker could have offered to this family to improve outcomes. (Think specifically about macro social work skills that could be used to advocate for this client on a broader platform.)

Support your assignment with at least three scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including seminal articles, may be included.

Write a descriptive essay as a participant observer describing the culture and lifestyle of the Lakota tribe based on information from the online link.

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Culture and lifestyle of the Lakota tribe

Write a descriptive essay as a participant observer describing the culture and lifestyle of the Lakota tribe based on information from the online link. Be sure to read all the journal excerpts before writing the essay. When possible, include a description of family, education, religion, economic, and political systems you observed in the excerpts.Write essay based on the information from the following link.

  • https://www.nps.gov/jeff/learn/historyculture/the-lakota-sioux.htm

Using the sociological imagination, analyse and describe the social origins of the health issue under investigation apply the four parts of the sociological imagination template.

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Task Instructions :

Select one of the following health issues:

Ebola spread in West Africa: The 2014 West African outbreaks were the largest and worst Ebola outbreaks in history. More than 28,000 people were infected, and over 11,000 people died before the international public health emergency ended in June 2016.

Disproportionate rates of suicide in rural Australia(in comparison to metropolitan areas): Recent data on suicide in Australia indicates that, at 15.3deaths per 100,000 people, the rate of suicide for areas outside of capital cities is over 50% higher than in capital cities.

A higher level of diabetes among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people (relative to non-Indigenous Australians): Aboriginal and Torres Strait people are three times more likely to have diabetes than non-Indigenous Australians, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait lslander women are almost twice as likely to develop gestational diabetes as non- Indigenous women. There is also evidence that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are eight times more likely to develop type 2 diabetes(traditionally considered an adult disorder) than their non-Indigenous peers.

Socio-economic status and COVID-19-related cases and deaths in the United States: Lower education levels and greater percentages of black residents are strongly associated with higher rates of both COVID-19 cases and deaths in US.
Women and sexual assault: One in five women have experienced an assault in their adult lives compared to one in twenty men.

Provide a brief overview of the health issue, including the social distribution. Why is this health issue a significant social problem?
Using the sociological imagination, analyse and describe the social origins of the health issue under investigation apply the four parts of the sociological imagination template.
Apply at least one of the major theoretical perspectives, covered in lectures 1-6, which might best explain the extent and pattern of the health issue sociologically. Briefly describe the perspective(s), including the key concepts and focus of analysis. Use the perspective(s) to discuss what specific social phenomena likely causes the health issue. Outline the most significant limitations of your chosen perspective(s). You may just prefer one of the perspectives, or you may find that combining perspectives provides a fuller picture of the ‘how’ and/or ‘why’ the health issue exists.
Using the social model of health, propose an effective social intervention to prevent and/or address the health issue under investigation.

What do you want to remember from this week’s class after the semester is over? Explain why. Which concepts or ideas from this week’s readings relate the most to your life?

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Part 1: Must Complete Each Week

  • Select a quote from one of the readings from this week that you find the most interesting, confusing or thought-provoking and explain why. (Just one quote from one article. You do not have to choose a quote from every article due for that week).

Part 2: Other Questions to Consider 

Choose one or more questions to answer to get to 300 words. You do not have to answer every question below. Reflect on the question(s) you are most interested in.

  • What do you want to remember from this week’s class after the semester is over? Explain why.
  • Which concepts or ideas from this week’s readings relate the most to your life (personal life or current/future career)?
  • How might you use those concepts in your life (personal life or current/future career)?
  • What questions or comments do you have about the content this week? Which concepts or ideas are still unclear?

 

Write a four page life-event paper as a result of interviewing a family member. Develop a life-stage perspective.

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Life Event Interview Paper (150 points):

For this assignment, you are asked to write a four page life-event paper as a result of interviewing a family member. This assignment will help you develop a life-stage perspective. It is based upon utilization of the oral history and qualitative research methods. This assignment will require you to identify a life event that will be your primary area of focus. This life event can be a marriage, birth of a child, a divorce, graduation from school, loss of a loved one, surviving a traumatic event (e.g., natural disaster; car accident; violent crime), etc. Life events are circumstances (can be positive or negative) that occur in all of our lives that require us to adapt to them.

We in the United States are currently in a world of social change. To which revolutionary change do you most relate and why? What would you be willing to risk for the success of this change; e.g., life, liberty, imprisonment, fortune, security, etc.?

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Social change

We in the United States are currently in a world of social change. To which revolutionary change do you most relate and why? What would you be willing to risk for the success of this change; e.g., life, liberty, imprisonment, fortune, security, etc.?

What evidence does Elizabeth Croll put forward to support her claim that female mortality rates in such countries as China and India are so excessive that they constitute a “terrible story of inequality and neglect”?

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Female mortality rates

What evidence does Elizabeth Croll put forward to support her claim that female mortality rates in such countries as China and India are so excessive that they constitute a “terrible story of inequality and neglect”? What are the cultural and economic factors that contribute to excessive female mortality in these countries? What are the reasons Croll advances to explain why efforts at the international and national levels to address this problem have been ineffective? Do you agree with Croll’s analysis? Why or why not?

Introduction to Sociology, by Anthony Giddens, Mitchell Duneier, Richard P. Appelbaum, and Deborah Carr. New York: W.W. Norton, 2018 (11th edition)

What major problems characterize current crime statistics? What measures would you propose to correct these problems? In what ways does inequality create biases in the criminal justice system?

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Essay

Essay should be based on at least five (5) academic, peer-reviewed (last 10 years) references (sociological articles, books, websites, etc.) in addition to your text books, to be successful.

ESSAY QUESTION: What major problems characterize current crime statistics? What measures would you propose to correct these problems? In what ways does inequality create biases in the criminal justice system?

How are schools and society contributing to this process? How can schools, society, as well as students themselves change this course of event? Use specific examples of cases used in the film and studies/theories cited in the textbook of this module to explain.

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Discussion 1 AND 2

DISCUSSION 1 (PAGE 1) ANSWER THE QUESTIONS INDIVIDUALLY
In this week’s reading and lecture you learned about gender and educational inequality.
1) Thinking about your own educational experiences, major, and career goals, what role do you think gender socialization has played in shaping them.

2) There are number of different factors that contribute to gender differences and gender-based inequalities such as hidden curriculum, formal curriculum, peer relations, and teacher interactions. Pick two factors and explain how they contribute to gender differences and gender inequalities.

DISCUSSION 2 (PAGE 2) ANSWER THE QUESTIONS INDIVIDUALLY
Instructions
Today, black girls in the U.S. are one of the fastest growing populations in the juvenile justice system. The film “Pushout” is based on the book by Dr. Morris. It examines how girls of color, especially black girls are often criminalized in our school system.

How are schools and society contributing to this process? How can schools, society, as well as students themselves change this course of event? Use specific examples of cases used in the film and studies/theories cited in the textbook of this module to explain.

VIDEOS
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0wYKDv77k_H94Gwa7AN-BQ

Did the facilitator stay on the printed agenda line items? Explain. Discuss the issue(s) that were addressed in the community meeting. Discuss the brainstorming section of the community meeting. Elaborate.

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Community Public Meeting #1

Students will be required to attend 2 meetings (valued @25 points each) in the community setting: agency/organization boards of directors, boards of supervisors/city council, or meetings of legislative subcommittees. It is recommended that both meetings be observed in-person, but due to unforeseen circumstance, the professor will allow students to observe one meeting virtually. REMINDER: Only one of the two required meetings can be observed virtually.

The assignment must be in APA format (12 hint size, Times New Roman. appropriate grammar, use critical thinkino), not 0/A format. The assignment should include but not limited to the following:

  •  Briefly discuss the community in which the meeting was held (region of the state, county, population, etc.)
  • Discuss the type of meeting/. Elaborate.
  • What was the purpose of the meeting. Explain.
  • Was the meeting virtual or in-person? Explain. If virtual attached the link to the assignment
  • How was the meeting publicized? Elaborate.
  • Who facilitated the meeting? Was it a board or an individual?
  • Who were the participants in the meeting?
  • Discuss the communication patterns and styles during the meeting.
  • Discuss the meeting agenda (time, location, population served, agenda items, etc.)
  • Did the facilitator stay on the printed agenda line items? Explain.
  • Discuss the issue(s) that were addressed in the community meeting.
  • Discuss the brainstorming section of the community meeting. Elaborate.
  • What would you have done differently as the facilitator?
  • Identify 1-2 skills you felt the facilitator done successfully in the meeting. Be specific, give examples, elaborate, etc.
  • What were the main benefits of the meeting? Elaborate.
  • Discuss any challenges that may have occurred during the meeting. Elaborate.
  • Discuss the plan of action for the community as a result of the meeting. Elaborate.
  • How did the meeting conclude? Elaborate.
  • Identify 3 take-a-ways you took from the meeting?