Analyze what you know of Stan according to Feminist, SFBT, and Narrative therapies. Through each lens, highlight the things you know about Stan that would be important to focus on in treatment with him.

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Required Textbook Readings:

  • Chapter 12 – Feminist Therapy
  • Chapter 13 – Post-Modern Approaches

Required Multimedia:

  • Watch: Chapter 13 Video Activity-Narrative Therapy In MindTap on Cengage site. Under Chapter 13: How do I practice what I’ve learned
  • Watch: Chapter 13 Video Activity-Solution Focused Brief Therapy In MindTap on Cengage site. Under Chapter 13: How do I practice what I’ve learned

Optional Learning Resources:

  • Solution-Focused Brief Therapy with a case example and dialogue from therapy sessions. 
  •  https://solutionfocused.net/what-is-solution-focused-therapy/
  • Narrative Therapy: Skills and Principles.
  •  https://dulwichcentre.com.au/what-is-narrative-therapy/

Instructions:

Watch The Case of Stan video clips on your DVD for Feminist, SFBT, and Narrative therapies.

Then, answer the following questions thoughtfully:

  • Analyze what you know of Stan according to Feminist, SFBT, and Narrative therapies. Through each lens, highlight the things you know about Stan that would be important to focus on in treatment with him. Use at least two references per therapeutic style (6 total) in this section.
  • For each style of therapy, name at least two things (skills, topics you would explore with him, etc.) you would use with Stan if you were his therapist. Refer to the skills and principles discussed in the text and used in the video clips.
  • Lastly, to what degree do you believe that each of these therapies coincides with your faith perspective? Explain using at least one reference per each therapeutic style (3 total).

This assignment should be 3 full pages minimum-4 full pages maximum in length (excluding cover page and reference page), size 12 Times New Roman font, double-spaced, with 1-inch margins.

What are some of the specific features of the toy (e.g., size, shape, color, noise-making properties, etc.) that enhance its attractiveness and play value?

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Designing a Toy

Now that you have read and reviewed biosocial development during early childhood, take your learning a step further by testing your critical thinking skills on this problem-solving exercise.

Developmental psychologists view play as the major means through which physical, cognitive, and social skills are mastered—especially during the preschool years. Unfortunately, many adults are so imbued with the work ethic that they tend to denigrate children’s play. Some even punish their children for “horsing around,” criticize preschool teachers for letting children play “too much,” or schedule their children’s lives so heavily with lessons and chores that there is little time for play.

Your task is to mentally design a toy suitable for a 2- to 6-year-old child, keeping in mind the physical, cognitive, and social needs of preschool children. Then answer the following questions.
1. What is the name of your toy? How does the child play with it or use it?
2. How old is the child for whom the toy is intended? What features of the toy make it developmentally appropriate?
3. What domain or domains of development is your toy designed to stimulate? How are they stimulated?
4. What are some of the specific features of the toy (e.g., size, shape, color, noise-making properties, etc.) that enhance its attractiveness and play value?
5. What considerations should be given to injury control when the toy is used?

Describe another way the identified problem can be defined. What policy advocacy skills do you think should be used to address the identified problem?

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Discussion: Analyses of Social Problems in Case Studies

As a social worker, often you need to use your policy advocacy skills to ensure that your clients are receiving the services that they need. Although you may tend to think of policy advocacy skills as separate from your clinical social work skills, they are very similar. Think of the skills that you would use in working with a client such as Jake Levy. How could you apply these skills to policy advocacy? How will you use these skills to identify the policy and social problems that are impacting these families? In this week’s Discussion, you will continue to follow the Levy, Bradley, Petrakis, and Cortez families to start the process of policy advocacy.

In this Discussion, select one of the four integrated videos and identify the problems experienced by the client(s).

Post by Day 3 your responses to the following:

  • Who is defining the problem?
  • What values are reflected in this definition of the problem?
  • What is being omitted in this definition?
  • What other problems do you see that are not being acknowledged?

Be sure to support your post with specific references to this week’s resources. If you are using additional articles, be sure to provide full APA-formatted citations for your references.

Respond by Day 5 to a colleague who chose a case different from yours by addressing the following:

  • Describe another way the identified problem can be defined.
  • What policy advocacy skills do you think should be used to address the identified problem?
  • What makes a social problem a social work problem?
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Listed below is a situation that may or may not violate codes of ethics when working with families. Study the scenario carefully and then go to the codes of ethics for AAMFT, IAMFC, AACC, and ACA to find the ethical answers to the dilemmas presented. Be sure to record the code location on each ethical code where the violation or permission is given for the counselor to do what had been done (ex: AAMFT 2.2 or ACA B.7.2).

You are a young, single, male counselor with your own private agency. You saw a family for a year in 2011. During the counseling sessions, you realized there was an attraction between you and the oldest daughter. Since you did not want to hinder the therapeutic relationship you had built with the family, you did not pursue a romantic relationship nor did you say anything about your feelings. After one of the family sessions, the daughter mentions this attraction to you and admits her romantic feelings. You and she talk honestly about this and agree not to pursue this attraction. Later, the family seems to improve and the counseling is terminated. It has been 24 months since your last counseling session, and you see the daughter of your former client at the gym. In a brief conversation, the two of you decide to have dinner together next week. Have you, as a professional counselor, conducted yourself in an ethical manner?

All work is to be original done in APA with references and citation. This is a Masters course therefore all writing must reflect Masters writing.