Final Conceptualization and Application, Part II

Assignment 3: Final Conceptualization and Application, PART II
(30 points, 20% of grade)
The purpose of this assignment is to enhance students’ understanding of the intersection of mental health, substance use, and trauma as it is experienced by individuals, and to encourage students to consider the challenges, theoretical frameworks, clinical decision making, systems-level policy, or other aspects of service delivery exemplified by accounts offered and course content.
Students will examine the following question in relationship to their social work practice and responsibilities during the entirety of the course and provide a final response in week 10:
Why and how do people recover from difficulties related to mental health, substance use, and trauma?
Assignment requirement:
A clear argument or position regarding Why and how do people recover from difficulties related to mental health, substance use, and trauma?
Students are required to use Roth’s book, Insane: America’s Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
4-6 additional resources of information to support their response including: relevant literature, empirical research, books, videos, and relevant practice experience may also be included.
For full credit, at least 2-3 resources will be readings not assigned per course content.
Draw upon and incorporate course content: reading, class discussion or lectures
Essays will be, maximum, 6 pages double spaced, APA style (including cover page and references). “I” statements are appropriate when writing about professional or personal experiences.
Students will submit their final response, conceptualization, having attended to all requirements, feedback and guidance provided in part I.
Students are encouraged (not required) to draw upon professional clinical experiences, and personal history (as appropriate). If incorporating past or current practice experience, please be sure to protect client confidentiality by using pseudonyms and disguising any information that may identify clients. In writing about these experiences please use “I” statements in the final essay.
Student essays will be a critical response to the text, course content, and both personal and professional values as defined by their conceptualization of practice in context of client treatment and support. I think this section confuses students, is it needed? or does it need to be revised?
Students may prepare the essay in a style of individual preference and creative freedom. This means students will create the lens and the approach they take to answering the assignment question.
The analysis should a) describe the utility of texts and readings for broadening one’s knowledge about the experience of people affected by concerns related to mental health, substance use, and trauma;
b) explore the ways in which course material and topics intersect with issues raised in readings; and
c) provide understanding as to one’s personal and professional identities, values, and biases.
Students may choose to focus on a specific issue or person or to highlight several issues that are of particular interest and help not only influence clinical “style” but meaning to their practice.

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