Identify two significant external factors that might influence your work if you served in a leadership or management role in social work. Explain why these external factors are significant and how they might affect your work as a leader or manager.

you began exploring the similarities and differences of leadership and management roles and the contributions these roles make to an organization’s functioning. Social workers need to be aware of these similarities and differences in order to determine which management or leadership skills are most appropriate in a given position or situation. This week, you have […]

Identify the model of treatment group (i.e., support, education, teams, or treatment conferences). Using the typologies described in the Toseland & Rivas (2017) piece, describe the characteristics of your group. For instance, if you choose a treatment group that is a support group, what would be the purpose, leadership, focus, bond, composition, and communication?

As a clinical social worker it is important to understand group typology in order to choose the appropriate group method for a specific population or problem. Each type of group has its own approach and purpose. Two of the more frequently used types of groups are task groups and intervention groups. For this Assignment, review […]

 Describe the first three steps  you would take to begin the strategic planning process for a human  services organization.

In this assignment, you consider how leaders can  engage in a strategic planning process with stakeholders to develop a  plan to guide the organization’s evolution and development for the  long-term. Since strategic planning should engage persons who will be  affected by an organization’s decisions (e.g., staff, administration,  board members, members of the community), it is […]

describe a hypothetical situation in which an organization’s  decision conflicts with your personal/professional ethics but remains  within the law. Explain how you would respond to this situation, and  why.

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Describe the exercises in detail so that another social worker would be able to implement them. Explain ways these exercises might be effective in creating a comfortable environment for these teenage girls.

Group therapy is one of the most successful interventions for adolescents. This is because of the nature of this stage of development and the need to belong to a group. Hearing the stories of other teens and knowing that their experiences and feelings are similar is very therapeutic. Another characteristic of the adolescent stage is […]

Explain who among these potential informants would be valuable resources and why. Identify steps for obtaining credible, unbiased information.

  Assessment is perhaps the most fundamental of all social work activities. It is a process of gathering pertinent information to answer questions about problems, contributions to problems, and potential strengths and assets. At a program-evaluation or program-planning level, a social worker applies the same thoughtful process used in individual assessment but extends or filters […]

Applying the Bradford Hill Criteria

Assignment 4.1 Applying the Bradford Hill Criteria Instructions: Attached to this assignment, you will find the articles and instructions necessary to complete Assignment 4.1 Applying the Bradford Hill Criteria. First, you will read the short article about GMOs found at The Generic Literacy Project. (Links to an external site.)This article serves as your example of how to apply the […]

Discuss some ways that Innis’s concepts about media apply to the Internet. There is no ‘correct’ answer here. Feel free to include your own experience as well as other sources of evidence or insight

Harold Innis died in 1952, long before the Internet existed. Yet many of his ideas about media and communications seem relevant to it. Discuss some ways that Innis’s concepts about media apply to the Internet. There is no ‘correct’ answer here. Feel free to include your own experience as well as other sources of evidence […]