Organization – CoAct
https://www.coactntx.org/our-work
1. Give a brief description of agency and services provided.
2. Summarize assessment information.
a. Provide a summary of the client’s demographic description and any pertinent information about the family system. Demographics consist of ethnicity, race, education, knowledge, age, marital status, gender, and social economic status.
b. What is the presenting problem? Provide a human behavior and social environment (HBSE) theory to explain how and why you developed your conclusion.
c. Explain the effect of socioeconomic status on client. Support your argument with research regarding the effects of socioeconomic status on human development, education, and/or health.
d. Define culture and its significance in social work. Based on the definition of culture, define and explain a minimum of two cultural factors that affect who client is or his/her situation.
e. Explain how your client’s culture and ethnicity impacts the presenting problem.
f. What are the client’s strengths? Limitations?
g. Who else is affected by the problem? How are they affected by the problem? Apply systems theory and include answers in the micro, mezzo, and macro levels.
h. How is your case impacted by policy? Name and show how one specific policy has had or could have had a meaningful effect on the client’s experiences.
3. Summarize goal planning, the intervention plan and the actual intervention.
a. What goals and objectives were developed? Who developed them?
b. What needs to be changed? Consider changes to the client, family system, environment, policy, etc.
c. Does client have the motivation, capacity, and ability to change? Provide a human behavior and social environment (HBSE) theory to explain how and why you developed your conclusion.
d. What resources are available? This can also include resources available but not utilized.
e. What intervention options are available? Name two interventions and justify the use of these interventions with relevant social work literature (i.e., evidence-based practice).
f. Provide two social work skills-based techniques that were helpful in working with this case. Explain how you applied the skills in the case. This web link is not all inclusive and provided as a start.
https://msw.usc.edu/mswusc-blog/10-skills-every-social-worker-needs/
4. Summarize your evaluation of the intervention.
a. Were the desired outcomes (goals) achieved? What evaluation tool was used or could have been used to evaluate the process or outcome of the case? What does the evaluation tool measure?
i. If outcomes were achieved, what process did you utilize to terminate the client? If termination did not occur, how might it occur based on agency procedure and/or best evidence-based practices?
ii. If outcomes were not achieved or still ongoing, what barriers were encountered?
1. Have the barriers been addressed?
a. If yes, how were the barriers addressed?
b. If not, why not?
