Psychopathology Social Work

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A diagnosis is powerful in the effect it can have on a person’s life and treatment protocol. When working with a client, a social worker must make important decisions—not only about the diagnostic label itself but about whom to tell and when. In this Discussion, you evaluate the use and communication of a diagnosis in a case study.

To prepare: Focus on the complex but precise definition of a mental disorder in the DSM-5 and the concept of dimensionality both there and in the Paris (2015) and Lasalvia (2015) readings. Also note that the definition of a mental disorder includes a set of caveats and recommendations to help find the boundary between normal distress and a mental disorder.

Then consider the following case:

Ms. Evans, age 27, was awaiting honorable discharge from her service in Iraq with the U.S. Navy when her colleagues noticed that she looked increasingly fearful and was talking about hearing voices telling her that the world was going to be destroyed in 2020. With Ms. Evans’s permission, the evaluating [social worker] interviewed one of her closest colleagues, who indicated that Ms. Evans has not been taking good care of herself for several months. Ms. Evans said she was depressed.

Bare Foot Revolution of Burkina Faso Documentary

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Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yWIakmSHIc

Editing instructions

All the changes/revisions made to improve the first draft must be highlighted in color in the final draft version.

Failure to integrate my comments, highlight the changes and follow the paper instructions will result in an F

Write grammatically correct sentences

Avoid vague sentences or pronouns/ be specific!

Avoid repetitive sentences/ ideas, be coherent, it’s a story!

Include subtitles/subheadings

Visit the writing studio and/or have someone read your paper.

To receive full credits, students must write five full pages following the guidelines spelled out on the syllabus.

NB: Plagiarized work and late submitted papers will not be graded.

UN Human Trafficking Report

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Throughout the semester, you will find and then analyze articles that exemplify any 10 concepts (or 5, if you’re doing Service Learning) from our list of options, which are drawn primarily from Best’s book. If there is a concept that you want to explore that isn’t on this list, please consult with me to see if we can make it a possibility!

An article can only be used once, and are ideally from this calendar year. Articles should be found in newspapers; in news magazines such as Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News and World Report; or on online news sites such as CNN.com, FoxNews.com, and ABCNews.com.

Note that you can select a troubling condition of interest to stick to all semester, or you can switch it up constantly and have each of your analyses be on different troubling conditions. Whichever approach you choose, I recommend that you find a troubling condition, or multiple troubling conditions, that you’re passionate about and want to learn more about during your internet searches for articles!

For each analysis, please be sure to explain/define the concept and make clear connections between the concept and the article. Quoting should be kept to a minimum, and each analysis should be about 1.5-2 pages double-spaced. Check out this sample analysis to get a sense of what’s expected for each of these analyses.

Racial Discrimination

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  1. How did racial hierarchy adapt once racial discrimination became illegal?
  2. What is the “new Jim Crow”?
  3. According to Alexander, what is the public perception about who represents the majority of drug users and dealers? What is, in fact, the reality? What primary reason does she offer for the misconception?
  4. Explain the meaning of this finding, “Studies consistently indicate that drug markets like American society generally, reflect our nation’s racial and socioeconomic boundaries.” By citing these studies, what larger point is Alexander trying to prove?

Leadership and Conflict Management Presentation

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Assignment Content

  1. Conflict may occur in many different aspects of people’s lives, and how individuals respond to conflict may differ depending on the situation. This assignment provides the opportunity to apply what you have learned about team leadership and conflict resolution and management to a situation you may have encountered in your own life.Review the Microsoft® PowerPoint® resources to enhance your presentation.Consider a time you encountered a workplace situation in which there was conflict within a team.Create a 6- to 8-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation on leadership and conflict management. Include the following:

    • Provide a brief summary of the conflict situation.
    • Describe the response of leaders to the situation, and based on their response, determine the leadership theory that they most likely employ. Provide a justification for your determination.
    • Describe how leaders can contribute to conflict resolution in this situation.
    • Describe methods of conflict resolution and management that either were utilized, or could be utilized in this situation.

    Include detailed speaker notes for each slide.Submit your assignment.

I Key Lessons Learned from The Sociology Course

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For the final paper, I want you to write 100-150 words that expresses the most impactful lesson you learned during each week of this Sociology 1 course. That means you will produce ten distinct entries of 100-150 words each, and each entry will convey just one distinct/specific lesson you learned during that week. As stated in the syllabus, here are the ten distinct units of this Sociology 1 course:

Week 1: Sociology and Common Sense

Week 2: Norms, Sanctions

Week 3: Classical Theorists and Their Ideas (Part I)

Week 4: Classical Theorists and Their Ideas (Part II)

Week 5: Basic Debate: Choice and Constraint

Week 6: Social Class

Week 7: Race Matters

Week 8: Doing Gender

Week 9: Identity and Intersectionality

Week 10: The Sociological Imagination

In summary, you will produce a final paper that is 1000-1500 words, and this paper will highlight ten of the most important lessons you learned in Sociology 1. Throughout, as you draft this final paper, you should primarily draw upon lecture content, in-class exercises, and your own notes. Writing an introduction and conclusion is strongly encouraged.

Various Forms of Post Marital Residences

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Marriage Questions

Choose one of the following:

1.Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each of the major forms of post-marital residence: neolocal, patrilocal, and matrilocal residence. (750-1250 words)

How would a couple’s life be better (and worse) depending on which residence patterns they followed?

Ultimately, what does it mean to be married in your culture?

How does this differ from what you have noticed marriage means in other cultures?

2.Discuss cases of marriage resistance (such as the Cantonese example in your text) and also more recent rising numbers of unmarried men and women in the U.S. and across the world. (750-1250 words)

What are the advantages of remaining single?

What are the advantages of being married?

Go to the following website of Unmarried Equality and discuss their current “key facts

Role of Gender and A Man Box

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This past week we focused on gender. Gender is a fundamental social division. All around us we see differences between men and women (and girls and boys). The way they dress. The activities they engage in. What they say. What they want out of life. We see gender differences in the college classroom — who tends to major in what subjects? We see gender differences at the workplace — who tends to hold positions of power and authority? We see gender differences in the home — who tends to do the majority of housework? These social arrangements, which create and sustain gender differences, end up having powerful effects on the lifestyles and life chances of individuals.

ESSAY
In class on Friday, we watched a TED Talk by Tony Porter, where he focused on what he calls “The Man Box.” According to Porter, what is The Man Box? What are its core elements? Why are men afraid of getting outside of The Man Box? When Porter says, “my liberation as a man is tied to your liberation as a woman,” what do you think he means by that?

Capital Punishment

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Objective: Use examples from the movie to explain the politics of Texas’ justice system in application of criminal proceedings and the nature of corrections policy to illustrate meaning of the statement “lock em up” mentality; and create an argument supporting rehabilitation or incarceration as the best correctional policy approach to dealing with criminals in Texas.

Instructions:

When writing your essay, respond to the prompt thoroughly, and completely. Essays must be a minimum of 1.5 – 2 pages in length, double spaced, 1 inch margins, 12 point font, and written in Times New Roman.

Your response should be your own thoughts and analysis. Citations may be formatted in APA, MLA or Chicago style, as long as they are consistent throughout. Research and resources should be incorporated with scholarly application. I.e. used as examples or evidence to support your analysis. Make sure to use complete sentences, and proper grammar. Your response to the prompt should focus on analyzing the information you gather and used to provide examples that support your assessment

“A” papers should include a critical analysis of the video’s by applying at least 1 example from each film to support your position.

Finding Balance Between Work & Family

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For this paper, you will interview someone who works in an occupation or field that interests you. Perhaps you are interested in exploring a field that you plan to go into, or a field/job/work situation of someone you know (a parent, friend, relative). The key will be to integrate into your analysis one or several class concepts. Thus, you will use concepts learned throughout the course and apply them to a real-life working situation. 6 full pages, word count at least 2000.

You may draw from any of the concepts we discuss in class. Some of the more popular choices include:

  • Emotional labor
  • Work in a sex-typed occupation (i.e., a female corrections officer or a male nurse)
  • Work/Family balance, or work as a stay at home mother or father
  • LGBTQ identities at work
  • Tacit skills and coping with boring or routinized work
  • Racial and/or ethnic experiences and/or inequalities in the workplace
  • Service work – issues involved with interacting with customers
  • Blue collar work – women in blue collar jobs; devaluation of blue collar work
  • Labor & union organizing or workplace resistance
  • Immigration experiences

I have attached to this handout a basic description of interviewing strategies. Please refer to that as you construct your interview questions. You may write up specific interview questions to follow or you may want to have an outline of topics to cover. Either way, be sure to include questions that will allow you to explore the topic(s) you have chosen for this project.

Below I have provided a basic, suggested outline for how you should structure your paper.