The purpose of this assignment is for you to be able to identify and apply social work practice skills in intervention, termination, and evaluation at the macro level. Through focus on a single case study, you will demonstrate a working knowledge of situation-specific social work intervention, evaluation, and termination strategies social work ethics, values and cultural competencies.
Recording Your Presentation
Your recording must include both presentation visuals (e.g., PowerPoint) and your webcam video of you presenting the information. Refer to the WebEx information on the Getting Started page for how to record your presentation using WebEx.
Instructions
Based on your assessment of the Carla Washburn case, you will develop an integrated micro-mezzo-macro-level intervention plan aimed at ameliorating individual client issues and larger social concerns. This presentation will demonstrate your knowledge of multidimensional, multi-level intervention to include: (a) assessment; (b) intervention; (c) evaluation; and (d) termination. This is a cumulative comprehensive assignment.
Carla Washburn
http://routledgesw.com/washburn/home
This assignment is should be a visual presentation (e.g., PowerPoint, Keynote, Google Slides, etc.) with a corresponding video of you presenting the case. This is a professional case presentation and you are the social worker. You should imagine you are presenting this case to a group of colleagues and other professionals within an agency setting.
Slides should follow these guidelines: http://www.garrreynolds.com/preso-tips/design/. Slides should include references. (Note: PowerPoint slides that contain content copied and pasted from websites will receive a project score of 0.
Please coverall content areas. Use professional social work language, free from bias.
Guidelines
About 10 minutes in length
Include both video of your face (webcam) and visuals (e.g., PowerPoint presentation)
Presentation Outline
Assessment
Describe the micro, mezzo, and macro level issues you find most relevant and pressing when assessing the Case. You should include at least two issues at each level of intervention.
Using outside evidence/research discuss these issues and their impact on the client, this is especially important for your macro-level issues.
Intervention
Describe your proposed interventions at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels.
What would you do to address each of the issues you have identified? Be specific.
What would be your role as a change agent?
What specific strategies would you use to create desired changes?
Evaluation
How will you measure the success of your interventions at each level?
Discuss what you envision success to look like, remembering that success can be measured in multiple ways and may look different at different levels of intervention.
How will you specifically measure success?
What data will you need to collect and what is your plan for collecting it?
Termination
How will you approach termination with this client?
What specific strategies will you employ? How will you incorporate termination into your plan from the very beginning of your work with this client?
Sample Solution
Dante Alighieri played a critical role in the literature world through his poem Divine Comedy that was written in the 14th century. The poem contains Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. The Inferno is a description of the nine circles of torment that are found on the earth. It depicts the realms of the people that have gone against the spiritual values and who, instead, have chosen bestial appetite, violence, or fraud and malice. The nine circles of hell are limbo, lust, gluttony, greed and wrath. Others are heresy, violence, fraud, and treachery. The purpose of this paper is to examine the Dante’s Inferno in the perspective of its portrayal of God’s image and the justification of hell.
In this epic poem, God is portrayed as a super being guilty of multiple weaknesses including being egotistic, unjust, and hypocritical. Dante, in this poem, depicts God as being more human than divine by challenging God’s omnipotence. Additionally, the manner in which Dante describes Hell is in full contradiction to the morals of God as written in the Bible. When god arranges Hell to flatter Himself, He commits egotism, a sin that is common among human beings (Cheney, 2016). The weakness is depicted in Limbo and on the Gate of Hell where, for instance, God sends those who do not worship Him to Hell. This implies that failure to worship Him is a sin.
God is also depicted as lacking justice in His actions thus removing the godly image. The injustice is portrayed by the manner in which the sodomites and opportunists are treated. The opportunists are subjected to banner chasing in their lives after death followed by being stung by insects and maggots. They are known to having done neither good nor bad during their lifetimes and, therefore, justice could have demanded that they be granted a neutral punishment having lived a neutral life. The sodomites are also punished unfairly by God when Brunetto Lattini is condemned to hell despite being a good leader (Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). While he commited sodomy, God chooses to ignore all the other good deeds that Brunetto did.
Finally, God is also portrayed as being hypocritical in His actions, a sin that further diminishes His godliness and makes Him more human. A case in point is when God condemns the sin of egotism and goes ahead to commit it repeatedly. Proverbs 29:23 states that “arrogance will bring your downfall, but if you are humble, you will be respected.” When Slattery condemns Dante’s human state as being weak, doubtful, and limited, he is proving God’s hypocrisy because He is also human (Verdicchio, 2015). The actions of God in Hell as portrayed by Dante are inconsistent with the Biblical literature. Both Dante and God are prone to making mistakes, something common among human beings thus making God more human.
To wrap it up, Dante portrays God is more human since He commits the same sins that humans commit: egotism, hypocrisy, and injustice. Hell is justified as being a destination for victims of the mistakes committed by God. The Hell is presented as being a totally different place as compared to what is written about it in the Bible. As a result, reading through the text gives an image of God who is prone to the very mistakes common to humans thus ripping Him off His lofty status of divine and, instead, making Him a mere human. Whether or not Dante did it intentionally is subject to debate but one thing is clear in the poem: the misconstrued notion of God is revealed to future generations.
References
Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). Dante’s inferno: Seven deadly sins in scientific publishing and how to avoid them. Addiction Science: A Guide for the Perplexed, 267.
Cheney, L. D. G. (2016). Illustrations for Dante’s Inferno: A Comparative Study of Sandro Botticelli, Giovanni Stradano, and Federico Zuccaro. Cultural and Religious Studies, 4(8), 487.
Verdicchio, M. (2015). Irony and Desire in Dante’s” Inferno” 27. Italica, 285-297.
