Family Resiliency Assessment (Addresses SLOs 3, 6, 7, 8, 9)
The first step in the continuum of intervention is assessment. This assignment is designed to develop an understanding of a framework for resiliency practice. Following the outline below, complete a trauma-informed assessment of the resiliency factors for yourself and your family of origin. No one knows better than you the factors that shape success as well as the stresses that may inhibit it. This should be a first person account and does not require citations beyond the texts. You are encouraged to seek out family “elders” to help in your discovery process. Discovering your family’s journey will help you in future work with clients.
In summary:
- Define your family system. This definition should be supplemented by a graphic representation (i.e. genogram, culturagram, eco-map)
- Describe and discuss the key processes of family resilience: Belief Systems, Organizational Patterns, Communication Processes as they apply to yourself and your family. Use Walsh, Chapters 1-6.
- Identify current stressors for yourself and your family. Discuss the individual, interpersonal, environmental and community risk factors, including any social, economic and political injustices.
- Describe and discuss the current status of the protective mechanisms utilized by yourself and your family. As above, discuss individual, interpersonal, environmental and community protective factors including any social, economic and political supports.
- Discuss the impact of race, class, gender, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation and differing personal abilities upon family resilience, stressors and protective mechanisms.
- Reflect on your experience in conducting an assessment on yourself. How would you deal with these feelings in your trauma-informed work with families?
Format: This paper should be type written, double-spaced, and at least 6 pages in length.
The above assignment is used as a measure of student competency, using the following assignment
rubric: SW 619 – Advanced Clinical Social Work Practice with Families Page 23 of 26 SUM2017 4.27.2017 EPAS Practice Behavior Advanced Competence
(4) Competence
(3) Developing Competence
(2) No Competence
(1) 2.2: Apply social work ethical principles to guide professional practice Recognize and manage personal biases as they affect therapeutic relationship in the service of the client’s well-being Student significantly demonstrates professional use of self with families, understanding one’s own family of origin and how the family systems impacts one’s attitudes, beliefs and behaviors Student demonstrates professional use of self with families, understanding one’s own family of origin and how the family systems impacts one’s attitudes, beliefs and behaviors Student minimally demonstrates professional use of self with families, understanding one’s own family of origin and how the family systems impacts one’s attitudes, beliefs and behaviors Student fails to demonstrate professional use of self with families, understanding one’s own family of origin and how the family systems impacts one’s attitudes, beliefs and behaviors
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