SOCW 6530 Week 7 – Assignment 2: Practice

Week 7: Evaluation—Part 1

Important Note: 

Please use the media player below to hear an audio course introduction that will give you more background information about the course topic. Also provided is a transcript for you to download and print out.

Laureate Education (Producer). (2013c). Evaluation [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://class.waldenu.edu
 

Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 1 minutes.
 
Learning Objectives

Students will:

· Apply evaluation in field education experience

Learning Resources

Note:

 To access this week’s required library resources, please click on the link to the Course Readings List, found in the Course Materials section of your Syllabus.

Required Readings

Thyer, B. A. (2013). Evidence-based practice or evidence-guided practice: A rose by any other name would smell as sweet [Invited response to Gitterman & Knight’s “evidence-guided practice”]. Families in Society, 94(2), 79–84.

Wharton, T. C., & Bolland, K. A. (2012). Practitioner perspectives of evidence-based practice. Families in Society, 93(3), 157–164.

Required Media
Laureate Education (Producer). (2013c). Evaluation [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://class.waldenu.edu

Note: This audio introduction is located in the “Introduction and Objectives” section. The approximate length of this media piece is 1 minute.
Accessible player 
Optional Resources

Click the following link to access the MSW home page, which provides resources for your social work program:
MSW home page

Assignment 2: Practice
After reviewing the agency’s intervention/treatment plan, complete the intervention/treatment plan with a client with whom you are working.

· Client who has the Substance Use Disorder of Alcohol, Methamphetamines, and Marijuana; client uses alcohol and marijuana to fall to sleep at night. Client has the Mental Health conditions of Anxiety, Depression and PTSD. Client is participating in the agency Sober Living Program and Intensive Outpatient Program.

Submit a 2 page paper in which you:
1. Briefly describe the setting where the intervention/treatment plan was conducted.
2. Briefly discuss how you used the literature to guide your practice (i.e. actual use of the treatment/intervention plan).
3. Briefly summarize the experience of actually working with the client and any emerging themes (i.e., anything in the literature that captured your attention or was repeated throughout) that were present during the intervention.

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