Risk Assessment to Prevent Mass Violence

Risk Assessment to Prevent Mass Violence
Assignment
For this assignment, review frameworks in texts and elsewhere that explain mass trauma events.
Apply a theoretical/conceptual framework to a particular type of disaster event or a perspective/theory to a particular type of mass violence event.
Based on the premises that your theoretical framework or perspective explain regarding the type of disaster or mass violence event selected, please describe the level of social work practice you recommend for assisting the vulnerable population you selected before, during, and/or after the disaster or mass violence event.
Consider how you might appraise or evaluate the effectiveness of the social work plan in your model.
Requirements

The length of the exercise is to be no greater than 3 pages excluding title page and reference pages.
APA format is required with both a title page and reference page but no abstract. Use the required components of the review as Level 1 headings (upper and lower case, centered, boldface):

Note: Introduction – Write an introduction but do not use “Introduction” as a heading in accordance with the rules put forth in the Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (2010, p. 63). Also remember that the APA manual provides students with much information related to the general rules for writing in a grammatically correct way.
Use at least 3 references from the required readings and 3 references from another peer reviewed journal article published between 2014 and 2019. The best journal sources for this course are Journal of Human Rights and International Social Work, though depending on the topic, you might find resources in other journals.
Alston, M., Hazeleger, T., & Hargreaves, D. (2019). Social work and disasters: A handbook for practice. Routledge.
Chapter 4: Theories of social work and the environment, pp. 59-78
Williams, T., & Buckley-Zistel, S. (2018). Perpetrators and perpetration of mass violence: Actions, motivations, and dynamics. Routledge.
Chapter 1: Thinking beyond perpetrators, bystanders, heroes: A typology of action in genocide
Chapter 7: Gender and genocide: Assessing differential opportunity structures of perpetration in Rwanda
Journal Article
Berry, M., & Rana, T. (2019). What prevents peace? Women and peacebuilding in Bosnia and Nepal. Peace & Change, 44(3), 321-349.

Write a 3-page paper that includes the following elements:
Introduce the purpose and type of disaster or mass violence event you intend to address in the paper.
Apply a framework or perspective that explains the need for social work practice in a particular type of disaster or mass violence event.
Describe a social work plan in terms of the level of social work practice, i.e. macro, meso, or micro, that will address the needs of a particular vulnerable population, i.e. children, persons with disabilities, or elderly.
Appraise the potential effectiveness
See the detailed directions and grading criteria in the table below.
Criteria
Points
Description
Introduction
30
Illustrates the purpose of the assignment and the topics to be addressed in the paper (purpose, three general topics).
Organization relative to the assignment prompts
30
Organizes paper in a way that follows the prompts sequentially.
Theory and event
40
Apply theory to a particular type of disaster or mass violence event.
Social work plan
40
Describe a social work plan to address the needs of a particular vulnerable population.
Appraisal of potential effectiveness
40
Appraise the potential for your plan to be effective.

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