Essay Writing

Congratulations! You were selected to move on to the interviews for your dream job in Unit 2. For this stage in the application process, you must create a hypothetical case study for a child and family and document your initial biopsychosocial assessment. In this scenario, you may decide whom the child is living with (such as biological parents, a single parent, a grandparent, another family member, or a foster parent).

For this assignment, please respond to the following:

Subjective and Objective Information

• Describe the client demographics (age, sex, gender, race or ethnicity, family composition and history, living situation), reason for referral, presenting problem(s) and a brief description of the agency setting (objective information).
• Provide client comments.
  • For example, child, mother, father, or sister (names) reports or states the following: (subjective information)

Systems Theory Assessment

• Analyze how the child in your scenario is impacted from a nature versus nurture standpoint.
• Using the ecosystems theory and the person-in-environment framework, please fully explain the presenting problem(s) of the child and the family.
• According to multiple systems in the human environment, examine the influences present in the child’s micro, mezzo, and macro system.
• Analyze how the child in your scenario is impacted from ecosystems theory.
• How do social environment and various systems influence the child’s behavior?
  • Include positive and negative system influences such as church, school, peers, family members, neighbors, culture, community services, and the media.

Plan

• What are your recommendations and intervention strategies for this child and family?

Ethics, Values, and Self-Care Strategies

• What challenges could working with this child and family pose for you as a human service professional?
• What personal values or self-bias could potentially impact your ability to work effectively with this child and family?
• What ethical dilemmas could present themselves in this case study?
• What self-care strategies would you practice to respond to the ethical dilemmas, conflicting values, and self-bias?

Assignment Guidelines

Your Assignment should be a 4-6 page expository essay, not including the title and reference pages, and should include the following elements:

• Title page: Provide your name, title of Assignment, course and section number, and date
• Body: Answer all the questions in complete sentences and paragraphs, using the provided headings as a guideline in your paper
  • Your responses should reflect professional writing standards using proper tone and language. The writing and writing style should be correct, accurate, and reflect knowledge of human service theories.
• Reference page: Sources in APA format
  • Include a minimum of four scholarly, academic sources, with one of these references being the textbook.
• Use Arial or Times New Roman 12-point font, double-spaced, and left aligned
• Use standard 1″ margins on all sides
• Use APA Formatting and Citation style
  • If you need assistance with APA style, please visit the Writing Center.

This Assignment assesses the following Course Outcome:

HN501-2: Apply ethics, values, and self-care strategies to professional practice and human services delivery.

Submitting Your Assignment

Save your file in a location and with a name that you will remember. When you are ready to submit, select the Unit 4 Assignment Dropbox and upload your file. To view your graded work after your instructor has evaluated it, please visit your Gradebook.