PRACTICE INTEGRATION PAPER (10 pages-not including references or appendices)

Neuro-Psychologists at my field placement provides assessment and diagnosis of memory loss, individualize care plans with treatment recommendations, outreach to primary care and other healthcare professionals and information about clinical trials. My job as an intern is basically to initiate the intake assessment on the phone and set up appointments. When the patient comes in, I sit and observe a 20-minute MOCA test given by the social worker and patient continues the remainder of the visit with the neuro-psychologist.

For this paper, discuss your theoretical or conceptual approach to practice and analyze your work with one client. 86 years old female diagnosed with early stage Alzheimer’s disease brought in by family. Family complained of symptoms of forgetfulness, increased anxiety, lack of interest, poor ADLs.

It is critical that you identify what you did and why, what worked and what you would do differently next time.(You can create you own communication given the client about)

Your conceptualization and analysis of your work must be supported with relevant literature (10 articles Peer reviewed not older than 10 years, or book chapters) and examples from case material.

Course Texts:

LeCroy, W. (2014). Case studies in social work practice (3rd ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley & Sons.

Shulman, L. (2016). The skills of helping individuals, families, groups, and communities (8th ed.). Boston,MA

The evaluation of this paper will be based on the ability to critically analyze social work practice and to integrate theory and practice.

Some points or issues you should consider are identified below. You can provide any additional material regarding dominant theoretical perspectives and service modalities endorsed by such agency and whether your conceptual approach to practice is consistent with that of that agency.

I.Introduction

II.Theoretical approach to practice

• Discuss the theory guiding your work and draw from the literature to determine how the theory is supported for your particular client problem or population.

III.Case presentation

A.Referral- To a Neuro-psychologist

B. Presenting concerns- Cognitive impairment, forgetfulness, memory problems

• Describe the issues that led the client to the agency-forgetting their children’s names and ADL’s
• What were the client’s circumstances at the time of referral? forgetting their children’s names, ADL’s, anxiety etc.
• How did the client identify the need (or requirement) for services? The client is growing in frustration, but the primary doctor and daughter identified the need for evaluation.

IV.Assessment

• Summarize your assessment, conclusions and the problems for work, you and the client identified. Increase memory, wants to be less frustrated, wants to gain independence again.

• Discuss any discrepancies between your views of the problems for work and those of the client. The client feels more independent than they actually are.
• The assessment should include a biopsychosocial assessment or mental status exam as an appendix.
• The assessment should conclude with a formulation which is a summary of possible factors (psychological, social, environmental, biological, developmental, political) that have caused or influenced the client’s present situation. What are all the local , interpersonal, family, and societal factors that led to the client’s issue.
• The formulation includes hypotheses about how the client has come to this point in his/her life, and it notes some of the themes or threads that you and the client have identified.
• It incorporates both the strengths and the problems presented by the client and the situation, and it forms the basis of the next steps, that is, determining goals for the work you and the client will be doing together and the contract about how the work will be done to reach those goals.

V.Relationship with the client

A.Engagement

• How did you engage with this client?
• Did you encounter any resistance or obstacles? How did you handle this?

B. Contracting

• Describe the process
• Identify the tasks you and the client worked on.
• Support your choice of strategies by referring to relevant theory/research.

C.Issues of diversity/difference-In what ways were you similar or different from the client?

How did you address these differences?

VI.Intervention

VII.Ethical issues

Did you encounter any issues and if not, determine what potential ethical issues you might encounter in the future?

VIII.Constraints/limitations

• Discuss any constraints or limitations you encountered in working with this client.
• How did they affect your work?
• How could they be addressed or avoided?

IX.Conclusion

• Discussion of research to support the case approach to practice with this client and self-reflections for your practice.

X.References

Writing Expectations: Papers should conform to college standards of written English. Written work should be typed, neatly and carefully formatted, proofread, checked for proper grammar and spelling, well-organized, and properly referenced using the APA 6th Edition Citation Style. Points will be deducted for weak organization, poor spelling, poor grammar, and noncompliance with APA.

Create a complete web site that will greatly enhance your chosen project. You need: • An attractively styled home page that includes a banner background image appropriately themed with your name and your site’s layered on the banner. • A page that will highlight the main offerings of your site such as room images, menus, and shopping items, etc. These items must be realistic pricing must appear on this page. It must be in a responsive table or a flex-box but should be in a border free table for easy comparison. • A page that a detailed, validated contact form. The validation must include the conversion to uppercase for the first letters of first name, last name, and city. • A page to discuss the support services available (you may add links to local support / maintenance services also (i.e. other dining opportunities in a nearby town) but not exclusively). The services will be presented as an ordered list for major categories (i.e. transportation, maintenance, cleaning, etc. ) with the specific hours of operation (such as dates and times) appearing as an unordered lists within the category (i.e. lessons, competitions, or other items of interest). You can elect to use image‐styled‐ lists or not. The preference is that you will. • Each page will have an appropriate banner on the page and on the browser tab to show the viewer the purpose of the page that they are viewing. • The home page must be an index page. All pages in the site will contain a link back to the home page. • You will have a nav bar for viewers to naviagte your site. • Images matter! They must be relevant and of good taste and sized accordingly. Responsive is required. • All tables must be styled using the nth child • All images and stylesheets must be in an appropriately named folder within the site. • You must have dynamic rollover hyper‐links that will demonstrate a change in color, size, or font or all three. Look up link hover in W3Schools. A drop-down nav scheme is also acceptable. • You must have an auto-chart included either in a page or as a separate page that will depict 12 key data points for your business. The bars must have labels and show exceptions as a seperate color. You will have at least two exceptions. • Your site must be constructed a a complete site structure. Your compressed site structure is the only acceptable file. Your goal is to make your site attractive enough that people will want to conduct business with you. You need to highlight the important considerations that a prospective customer would want to know about your business in order to make an informed decision. You will be graded on the sites functionality as defined above, as well as it aesthetic appeal. Submittal: You will submit your midterm in one zipped folder to the Moodle site not later than midnight, Friday , December 13, 2019. Be sure to include all folders and pages in your submittal.

In “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” (1975), Laura Mulvey argues that classical Hollywood cinema (1930s-1960s) worked to encourage audiences to identify with an idealized male character (the “ego ideal”), particularly when he looks at a woman who “connotes to-be-looked-at-ness.” By encouraging us to identify with the “male gaze” and to take pleasure in looking at the female object of the gaze, Mulvey argues, classical Hollywood produces male subjects and female objects. In this way, classical Hollywood style reproduces the patriarchal power relations that associate masculinity with dominance, femininity with submission. (See the clips from Gilda and The World of Suzie Wong for examples).

Please write a 3- to 5-paragraph essay (with an introduction and conclusion and using topic sentences) answering ONE of the following questions:

1. We’ve seen this clip from Vertigo in class several times. How might you use this clip as an example to support Mulvey’s arguments.

Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock 1958)

Write 12 observation diaries for my Microcosm.

The Statement for Microcosm in the attachment is what my Microcosm about, and the other attachment is the guide for this whole Microcosm project.

Each diary is about 100 words.