Goal of the Assignment:
To demonstrate your attainment of the course competencies: ability to apply the coursecontent, including the Essential Elements and Trauma Informed framework and incorporatingan understanding of both individual and systemfactors, to one of your own cases.
Please organize the papers as follows:
I. Introduction (1-2 pages)
1. Identify one of your own unit’s child or adolescent cases. Summarize the presenting problem and relevant history. Integrate the concept of “child traumatic stress” by identifying what types of experiences constitute childhood trauma.
II. Background (2-3 pages)
Provide a trauma-informed assessment of your client.
i. Apply knowledge of how traumatic experiences affect brain development and memory and understand the relationship between a child’s lifetime trauma history and his or her responses through comprehensive case planning.
ii. Be sure to highlight developmental and cultural factors that are salient to the assessment from the academic and empirical assigned and other readings.
Articulate how trauma has an impact on the behavior of children over the course of childhood and how child traumatic stress is exacerbated over time by ongoing stressors (including separation from/loss of caregivers, and/or foster placement) in a child’s environment and within the system.
III. Intervention (2-3 pages)
4. Using the essential elements identify the most immediate intervention issues for your client. Describe the phase of intervention that you are in with your client (see Saxe, chapter 8 (BB)).
Identify trauma-sensitive interventions such as strategic referrals to timely, quality, and effective trauma-focused interventions and trauma informed case planning with multi-disciplinary teams.
Articulate how the impact of traumatic stress can be prevented and/or mitigated by trauma-informed responses of child welfare workers and child welfare systems.
Discuss the degree to which you have been able to work within a trauma systems therapy team as described by Saxe, et.al. (see blackboard). If that is not possible in your setting, describe efforts you have made to develop an intervention plan in collaboration with other systems involved in the child’s life.
5. Summarize the intervention planned or underway with the client.
Summarize the work with the caseworker, client (and family if appropriate) and identify (briefly) next steps.
Consider how cultural factors influence the manner by which children may identify, interpret, and respond to traumatic events during the case practice process
IV. System Factors (1-2 pages)
6. Identify the impact of secondary traumatic stress (STS) on yourself and the worker and employ appropriate interventions. Summarize. Be specific.
7. How are the (CFSR) goals of safety, permanency, and well-being being addressed or improved by effectively serving this child and family with a trauma informed focus? Think individual, staff, and system.
V. Conclusion/Discussion
8. Conclusion
Would this case plan look differently with typical case management strategies? Why or Why not? How?
Summarize the innovations you have employed using a trauma informed lens, highlighting the most important facet of trauma you have learned in this class and on this case.
As with all SOWK 5571 papers, APA formatting is required.
This includes the use of a cover page, running head, in text citations as well as a formatted list of references.
The cover page and bibliography are counted in the page limits.
References must be listed with APA style, including DOI#’s for journal articles.
Points will be deducted for deviation from APA style.
All assignments will be required to be submitted through Blackboard &Turnitin.
Format:
Type-written, double spaced paper of 8-10 pages (plus a cover page and a bibliography) in APA 6th edition style.
Due Date: August 3, 2021
Weight: 35% of course grade
Outline:
Outline for Final Paper
I. Mario P. – 16 years old (Latino male); resides with his biological father; mother left them when Mario was a child about 5 years old due to father’s alcohol and drug use as well as domestic violence; her whereabouts are unknown but believe to have returned to her birth country of Ecuador. Mario has also resorted to drug use. The living conditions were dirty and messy.
II. Mario P. has been truly affected by his mother’s abandonment issues and has resorted to drug use as well; his father emphasized machismo attitude as to men do not cry or feel anything; Mario has to be strong; father does not emphasize academics as he did not finish school either and he feels he did not turn out so bad. Mario’s father feels he does not need counseling for anything.
III. Substance abuse treatment for father and son; father was referred to intensive outpatient services and would attend sporadically and continued to use; Mario would not comply with substance abuse treatment even when he was referred by the school and he signed out of school. Mario refused to comply. Mario was using opioids at this time. Inpatient services were recommended for both father and son but at different facilities. The father refused to go and Mario tried but he would run away.
IV. Mario was also provided with a mentor which he gave a hard time in the beginning. Mario continued with this pattern as he felt no one cared about him so it did not matter what happened to him. Mario did over dose once and was hospitalized and was somewhat of a wake- up call. The father would not go to sign papers so the Division took custody of Mario. Once again he was abandoned but now by his father. His father would not go visit him at facility.
V. I tried to be there for Mario but I was scared when he would run away that he would be found dead. He was found overdosed one time at the park. I feared his father would overdose as well.
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