Your Organization Within the Community Context

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Your Organization Within the Community Context

This is a 500–750 word narrative paper supported with reputable sources that describe the human services organization you work for, or would like to work for as a human services leader, in the community identified in the assignment in Unit 2.

While you understand your role and function within the agency, a human services leader needs to extend that context of practice to understanding the organization within the community. The organization was started and continues to serve the community for a reason. The paper explores the reason and the relation of the organization and the community over time.

As you gather the content for this paper, consider these questions:

  • How does the organization fit into the community?
  • What is its mission and services?
  • How does it fit into the network of services?
  • What is its history with the community and specific groups?
  • How does it involve the community in decisions—board, advisory council, other?
  • What types of outreach does it do?
  • What is available on its Web site?

Note: Integrate these ideas into a cohesive narrative. Refrain from answering the questions like a take-home exam.

utilitarianism, deontology, and virtue ethics

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Prepare: The initial post in this discussion must be informed by the required material for this discussion. Your preparation should focus on three classical ethical theories that are fundamental in any ethical analysis: utilitarianism, deontology, and virtue ethics. Since the subject of your examination is the Starbucks case, make sure to view the relevant multimedia carefully with an eye toward the various ethical problems that this company has had to confront.

Reflect: Keep in mind that although the notion of the moral good will vary among ethical theories, they often produce the same or similar results. So you should focus on the differences in (a) the intent and (b) the consequences of the action under examination. In utilitarianism, for example, the consequences of the action are weightier than the intent. Accordingly, even if the intent was morally questionable, the action is nonetheless morally good if it achieves good consequences for most. The opposite would be the case if the action were being examined from a deontological point of view. These reflections will aid your selection of an ethical theory for your initial post, as well as your critical examinations of the analysis from fellow students.

Write: Start your initial post by identifying two characteristics of utilitarianism, two characteristics of virtue ethics, and two characteristics of deontology. Organize this part of your post so that it is clear which characteristics belong to which ethical theory. You can do this by means of subtitles, or by presenting a table. You should aim to write one complete and clear sentence for each characteristic rather than just one or a few words.

Then, take the position that Starbucks is guided by utilitarianism and analyze how the notion of the moral good in utilitarianism leads to a unique approach to ethical problems. The way to do this is as follows:

  • First, present an ethical problem confronted by Starbucks. You can choose one such ethical problem from the video.
  • Then, apply the characteristics of utilitarianism that you identified for this discussion in the attempt to solve this problem.
  • After this, analyze how the notion of the moral good present in utilitarianism, and the characteristics that you identified in particular, shape the approach to solving this problem.

Revise: This is your chance to correct any oversights or errors in your initial post, or show your improved understanding of the ethical theories and their applications. Start by reading the feedback provided by your professor to your initial post, either directly to you or to your fellow students. Use this as an opportunity to learn from your professor, especially with regard to the best ways to apply the course material and your research to your analysis. On the basis of what you have learned in this process, post an improved revision of your initial post that applies the additional knowledge that you have gained.

Remember that your grade depends on the quality of your initial and revised responses, not just on the submission of an attempt at improvement. It is thus to your advantage to post the best initial post you can and then to also improve that best effort as much as you can through revision. Taking this process seriously will help you develop the skills you need to do well on the final project.

Requirements for Your Initial Post:

  • Your initial post should be at least 400 words in lengthand have citations and references in APA notation. It should address the prompt in its entirety. This means that you should not split your response to the prompt in multiple posts. Your examination should be both thorough and succinct. This is a combination that demands time and thought, so give yourself sufficient time to draft and revise.
  • Please be advised that until you post, you will not see what your fellow students are posting. Once you submit your post, you will be able to view the posts from your other classmates. You can then proceed to reply to at least two different threads based on the required material for this discussion on virtue ethics and deontology.
  • Your list of references for your initial post should include the video and the other required material for this discussion, including Section 1.3 of the textbook on Starbucks, as well as the Instructor Guidance and any other announcements presented to you by your professor. Use all of the material presented to you in the course and by your professor, in addition to any other sources that you consulted to inform yourself about Starbucks (but not Wikipedia or similar sources).

What are the advantages and disadvantages of using Family Development theory and Family Genogram to viewing and understanding family life

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Guidelines for Family Genogram

The purpose of this assignment is to apply course-related concepts to real life situations, and to better understand your own family dynamics, and potentially, that of the people you will be working with as a human service professional. This assignment is worth 50 points.

Your genogram consists of two parts:

(1) Physical graphic depiction of your family (25 points)

a. You can do this on a regular 8 X 11 sheet of paper, highlighters, construction paper, markers, etc. You do not need to buy a large presentation board, any special computer program, or any fancy materials.

(2) Written portion (25 points)

Graphic Depiction:

· Members of at least three generations (if you have children, you may choose to include four generations).

· Members gender, age, generational position, and ethnic/religious background.

· Significant events: year of marriage, separation, divorce, death.

As you draw your Family Genogram, expect to make a few tries on smaller sheets of paper before you draw it on a large piece of paper. You may want to use different colors to make distinctions between generation or blood lines. Feel free to do this in any way that helps you see your family more clearly. As you will discover, Genogram allows to succinctly display a lot of information. And, most importantly, you will gain a whole new sense of your family.

Written Portion: (2 pages total) should not include the story of your life, how mom and dad met, or describe family history and traditions. Simply and succinctly answer the following questions only:

· Describe the characteristics of each generation based on the Family Life Course perspective:

· Identify and name the stage of the Family Life Course (or a transition between stages) each generation of your family is in at the moment (5 points)

· Specify basic developmental tasks that each member/generation of your family has to accomplish/ is in the process of accomplishing (10 points)

· What are the advantages and disadvantages of using Family Development theory and Family Genogram to viewing and understanding family life: (5 points)

· Have you learned anything new about your family? How was your perception of your family changed in the process of working on this exercise? This is where you should point out how your family compares research findings we have discussed in class (family size, age of stage transitions, etc.) (5 points)

A description of the steps you will take to build rapport with Laurel and help her feel comfortable in confiding in you

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An important part of the skills you will develop in this course is the ability to design appropriate interventions, and that includes designing an assessment strategy appropriate to the particular client treated. In this assignment, you will create an assessment strategy based on the information provided in the vignette. This assignment is to be completed individually.

Tasks:

As a Forensic Case Manager, Laurel is sent to you to conduct an intake in order to start the assessment process. During that appointment, she relays to you the information mentioned in the vignette. Using the information found in the vignette, provide a preliminary diagnosis of the client according to The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder (DSM) criteria.

Create a 2- to 3-page paper describing the assessment tools you will use. In your paper, include the following:

  • A description of the steps you will take to build rapport with Laurel and help her feel comfortable in confiding in you. Consider the work of Carl Rogers Person Centered Theory; the work of Insoo Kim Berg Solution-Focused Brief Theory (SFBT); and Crisis Theory to help inform your rapport building with Laurel.
  • A description of what methods you will use to continue with the assessment process, knowing this may take three to four visits. Be specific if you are considering using any instruments or questionnaires. Explain the rationale for using each method and indicate what information you expect to find by using them.
  • Given the information you know at this point, what would be your provisional diagnosis of Laurel?
    • Look at a diagnosis for this exercise.
    • You may consider rule-outs. Any diagnosis you give should have an explanation of the criteria or symptoms supporting your choice.

study the vignette.

Vignette—Laurel

When Laurel was a freshman in college, she was one day walking back from her part-time job in town to the dorm where she lived. It was dusk when she reached the outskirts of a quiet neighborhood and started to cut across a large field that lay between town and campus. Suddenly, a man in a stocking mask jumped from a hedge that bordered the field. He grabbed her arm, pushed her down, and shoved the barrel of a gun into her mouth as he raped her. She thought she was going to die. But just as quickly as he had appeared, he disappeared. His only words were, “If you tell anybody about this, I’ll really get you.”

Somehow, Laurel made it back to the dorm, and her roommate drove her immediately to a hospital emergency room. After she was examined and treated, she spoke briefly to a psychiatrist who suggested she talk to someone at the college counseling center. She was also questioned by police, who investigated the incident but were never able to develop a lead.

The next day, Laurel felt strange, as if the experience had been a bad dream. She found herself jumping out of her skin at the slightest noise. Over the next few weeks, she had trouble falling asleep and woke from nightmares she could not clearly remember. But she did not go to the counseling center; she did not want to talk about the rape. It was as if talking about it might make it more real. She also felt vaguely guilty—she should not have taken the shortcut home.

Over the next few weeks, Laurel’s life changed. Prior to the rape, she had started a relationship with a fellow student. Afterwards, she abruptly stopped seeing him or socializing much with anybody. She had difficulty concentrating on her schoolwork. Her grades, which had been consistently high before the rape, fell sharply. At the end of the semester, she dropped out of college where she had been doing preprofessional coursework. Only after working two years in a dead-end job did she finally decide to try again and enroll in a business course that trained her to do secretarial work.

Five years later, following the breakup of a serious relationship, Laurel sought therapy for “depression.” She also complained of dissatisfaction with her job. She was beginning to see her problems with men as a result of her own ambivalence. Every time she got close to someone, she said, she began to panic and did something to force distance. Laurel considered her childhood normal and reasonably happy. Her parents seemed to have a good marriage, as did her siblings. She had concluded that something must be wrong with her.

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