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Purpose
This assignment is designed to develop family assessment skills by integrating visual and verbal information.
Course Outcomes
This assignment provides documentation of student ability to meet the following course outcomes:
CO 1: Integrate cultural, ecological and social justice perspectives into assessment and engagement at all ecological levels.
CO 2: Assess group, family, community and organizational needs, strengths, and processes to develop effective intervention plans.
Total Points Possible
This assignment is worth 120 points.
Due Date
Please see the due dates below. The Late Assignment Policy applies to this assignment.
Requirements
This paper will be a Word document in APA format, Times New Roman 12-point font. Include title page but no reference section.
Landscape format may be used for the genogram. The genogram can be hand-drawn and scanned, or you can use Microsoft Word or PowerPoint. In either case it should be clear and fit onto one page.
Directions
Family Culture and History: Describe the role of cultural values (such as individualism, collectivism, Confucianism, Protestant work ethic) and events (such as migration, assimilation, loss, remarriage) in shaping your family members’ roles and challenges.
Genogram: Complete a genogram of your own family, including at least three generations and the nature of the relationships among all members, including subgroups and close, enmeshed, conflicted, and distant or cut off relationships.
Assessment: Create an assessment of the family’s presenting problem that incorporates what you learned in the other parts of the assignment. Answer the following questions, using the titles in bold for subheadings:
Problem: What is one behavioral problem you believe has been affected by the family system and by the larger social context? Describe the problem as a behavior chain, with antecedents, actions, and consequences. The problem may also be cyclical, in which the consequences become the antecedents. This problem could be your own, one that primarily affects another family member, or one that exists between or among family members. You may choose a problem that existed in the past and may be resolved or improved, but for the purposes of this assignment, go back to the time when it remained a challenge.
Context: Describe the systemic interactions that have maintained the problem, and how they have done so. These interactions could include factors beyond the microsystem of the family, such as the interaction between family and school system, or the effect of macro issues like racial profiling.
Resources: Describe the family strengths and resources that can be mobilized to resolve or improve this problem behavior. Include both internal strengths, such as values and coping skills, and external resources, such as community programs or positive relationships among microsystems such as family and school.
First Step: Conclude your paper by sharing the first step you would recommend a family social worker take in helping the family with this problem, and why you would start there.
Grading Criteria
Your paper will be graded on the clarity with which you connect family relationships, levels of the social ecosystem, family history, the presenting problem, and strengths and resources. Proper use of the terminology, symbols and concepts of the genogram and ecogram will also be considered.
Category Points Descriiption
Family Culture and History 32 Describes the role of cultural values and events in shaping your family members’ roles and challenges.
Genogram 32 Includes at least three generations and the nature of the relationships among all members.
Assessment 44 Includes all four elements – problem, context, resources, and first step. Describes the problem in clear behavioral terms, in the context of family systems and larger issues, identifies both internal and external resources that are relevant, and argues for where the social worker should begin.
Quality of Writing 12 Writing is clear, persuasive, logical, free of grammatical errors, and in APA format with appropriate headings. Genogram is easy to interpret.
Total 120
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