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Family Assessment
In this week’s Discussion, you focused on how a specific barrier or set of barriers might affect a family system. Now, you turn to a more holistic view of a family system. Consider your experience both within your own family of origin and when interacting with other families. What is different between these examples of families?
In the field of social work, it is imperative that you know how to assess families. When trying to identify what is happening within a family, a social worker must learn about the family’s structure, identify their strengths, review their communication style, and understand the family’s dynamics. Families are influenced by the unique individuals within the family, as well as by the larger cultural context in which the family exists. Families vary in how they define who is a member of the family unit, what role each family should play, and what the family dynamics are based on an individual member’s contributions to the family system. Often, the social worker’s role is to help identify trouble spots and help the family re-adjust to healthy system dynamics.
In this week’s Assignment, you provide an assessment of a family and provide an analysis of the family using a social work perspective with consideration to strengths, cultural values, and social work theory.
Resources
Kirst-Ashman, K. K., & Hull, G. H., Jr. (2018). Empowerment series: Understanding generalist practice (8th ed.). CENGAGE Learning.
Chapter 9, “Understanding Families: Family Assessment” (pp. 349–381)
Chapter 10, “Working With Families” (pp. 382–418)
Samudio, M. (2015, Winter). Doing family therapy as a new social worker: The Do’s and don’ts.Links to an external site. The New Social Worker, 22(1), 6–7.
Walden University Writing Center. (2020). Walden templates: General templates: Course paper.Links to an external site. http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/templates/general#s-lg-box-2774360
Note: Scroll down to “Graduate Courses” and download the APA Course Paper Template. Directly type into the template to ensure the appropriate format for your Week 3 Assignment.
Walden University Library. (2020). Evaluating resources: Peer review.Links to an external site. https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/library/evaluating/peer-review
Walden University Library. (2020). Searching and finding information in the library databases: Overview.Links to an external site. http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/library/searchingfinding
Be sure to review the Learning Resources before completing this activity.
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WEEKLY RESOURCES
To Prepare
Consider a family system in a holistic manner. You can use the same family system as in the Discussion. However, in the Discussion you focused on a specific set of challenges. In this Assignment, think about all other aspects of the family system.
Recall the journal articles you found in the Walden Library for this week’s Discussion. Use those articles (or search for others) to support your family assessment.
Download the APA Course Paper Template from the Learning Resources and use it for this Assignment.
By Day 7
Submit a 2- to 3-page paper in which you further analyze a family system. Support your analysis by using the Kirst-Ashman and Hull text and additional research from the Walden Library. Do the following in your paper:
Describe the structure of a family.
Identify the strengths in the family.
Explain where in the life cycle this family is located and how that may influence family dynamics.
Describe the specific roles of two family members, and explain if the various roles work well together for the benefit of this family.
Explain how understanding the family’s challenges will help a social worker working with this family.
Analyze this family using systems theory or the ecological perspective.
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