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Social Work 401- Practice II

Fall 2023

Understanding and Apply Evidence- Based Intervention with a Family Case Assessment (Final Paper) -15%

Instructions: This family case assessment will count as your final paper for this course. This assignment is worth 15% of your final grade. Student will be required to read the required case assessment and answer the questions for the case. Responses should be typed in paragraph form and should be support with course material discussed in lectures and reading. No Short answer responses (i.e., 1-2 sentences per question will not be accepted). This assignment should be typed, double-spaced, TNR/Courier New, size 12 font, and in APA format. This assignment should have a cover page, body of work with headings, and reference. The minimum number of pages for the typed responses is three (3) full pages. (Does not include cover, abstract or reference). This assignment is due on or before Friday, December 8, 2023, by 11:59p.m. via blackboard.

Case Assessment:

Please read the below case assessment of the Walker Family. You are a family social worker providing services to this family. The family became involved with your social work agency when 15-year-old Simone ran away from home and was gone for a week.

The Walker Family

Family Composition:

The Walker Family is a middle-class African American family from Jacksonville, Florida. They live in the suburbs in a single-family home. The family includes the parents, 40-year-old Kim Walker and David Walker and their daughter 15-year-old Simone.

Current Situation:

Kim and David have been married for 16 years. Last year, they separated when Kim found out David was cheating on her with a younger woman at his job. When David moved out of the home into another home in the same neighborhood, Simone’s behavior began to change.

The separation and now final divorce have been hard on the family. The couple who were angry at each other put Simone in the middle of their fighting. Simone loves both of her parents and spent equal time with each parent during the separation. Kim and David have joint custody of Simone.

Simone used to be an A average student but has now dropped down to C’s and D’s and has been charged as a minor in possession of alcohol.

Prior to running away, Simone was truant from school on numerous occasions and rebellious toward her parents, teachers, and track coach. Simone met her boyfriend on SnapChat due to him attending another school in the city. She ran away from home and was gone for a week.

Simone’s behavior was a response to her frustration and inability to communicate her needs and feelings to her parents.

Kim and David realized how their conflicts were affecting their daughter and contributing to her problems at school and at home.

Responses:

Engagement

1.) Explain in detail how you would engage the Walker family. Identify the family of origin? Identify any subsystems within the Walker family?

2.) What cultural factors must be considered when working with this family?

Assessment/ Planning

3.) What is/ are the presenting problem(s) or issue(s)? How are the family members involved in the situation defining the problem?

4.) What critical events and disruptions in the family life cycle has this family encountered? How as the family handled these disruptions?

5.) Identify the strengths present in this family?

6.) As the social worker with this family, where would you start with this family? What actions should you take as the worker? Discuss and justify your recommendations.

Intervention

7.) Using one of the presenting problems from the Assessment/Planning response.

Select (1) of the appropriate practice theories/ theoretical framework
Using (dialectical behavior theory/therapy) we discussed in lectures and with oral presentations. Describe in detail why you chose the evidenced-based theory/framework. Explain how you would implement the framework/theory in your intervention with the Walker Family. Clearly, identify the goal, intervention techniques, skills, resources, and roles you would implement with this family. Could the family re-establish homeostasis with your selected intervention? Support your response. – Using two references.