The Week 5 Written Assignment will be 3 double-spaced pages and must have at minimum 3 scholarly sources within the past 5 years (2019-2024 only). The requirements that must be covered in your 3 double-spaced page paper are as follows:
Explain the key components of ecological systems theory to apply to the assessment, intervention, and evaluation of your chosen case study.
Which aspects ecological systems theory are the most applicable and relevant to your chosen case study?
How can ecological systems theory be integrated into assessment, intervention, and evaluation for your chosen character from the case study?
Assess the chosen character from the person-in-environment perspective.
For a person-in-environment perspective, you might want to ask yourself the following questions.
What systems provide client support?
What systems may be hindering the client?
Systems to consider include family, friends, work, social services, politics, religion, goods and services, and educational systems.
Include your chosen character’s intersectionality in your assessment.
Describe an intervention based on ecological systems theory that is applicable and relevant to the chosen character.
Discuss two short-term and two long-term goals for the client by applying systems theory to contextualize the appropriateness of your chosen intervention.
Consider how to make the intervention appropriate for diverse clients.
Evaluate the chosen intervention.
Evaluate the strengths and limitations of the intervention from an ecological systems perspective.
Describe the benefits of an ecological systems perspective within the context of personal social work practice.
Note how this perspective can guide social work practice when engaging with diverse individuals and families.
Helpful Links:
Ecological Systems Theory
https://www.onlinemswprograms.com/social-work/what-is-social-ecology/Links to an external site.
Person-in-Environment Perspective
https://www.trulyrealnutrition.com/blog/2019/4/5/blog-postLinks to an external site.
https://www.griefcounselor.org/2018/11/26/going-back-to-basics-learning-from-social-works-person-in-environment-perspective/Links to an external site.
Ecological Systems Theory Interventions
Page 12 of this pre-publication paper highlights many different interventions from an ecological perspective https://research.usq.edu.au/download/70d164b7030be3b942c23b5b577ce8930468efe6e2c7a7609ef2187144e02d94/683905/Salmon%20et%20al.%20Ch%2010_eprints.pdf
