Based on the recommendations for writing interview questions in the last lesson create five interview questions that you would ask people after they provided their narrative.

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Assignment Content

This assignment will help you research and understand what impact organizational structure and communication have on organizational behavior within an organization. As you complete this assignment, consider experiences you have had with organizational structure and communication.

Write a 350- to 700-word paper in which you:

  • Introduction
  • Explain how organizational structure affects organizational behavior.
  • Identify how effective and ineffective application of structure impacts organizational behavior.
  • Discuss how organizational communications can be used to support organizational behavior.
  • Include effective and ineffective communication methods.
  • Conclusion

Cite 3 reputable references. Reputable references include trade or industry publications; government or agency websites; scholarly works; your textbook, Organizational Behavior, Theory, and Design in Health Care (2nd ed.); or other sources of similar quality.

Format your paper according to APA guidelines.

I have attached the rubric.

Assignment:

You are working with your faculty advisor on a qualitative research study on the topic of people’s interactions with police and how it relates to their attitudes about defunding police.  The data collection involves respondents creating a narrative based on their interactions with police.  The actual question is as follows:

“I want you to think back to your most memorable interaction with the police  It could be when you were a child, when you were in high school, or when you were an adult.  It might be a good memory or it might be a bad memory.  It may have involved you directly, someone you knew, or a stranger you saw interact with police.  Once you have chosen a memory, tell me a story about what happened, providing as much detail as you can remember.”

Once the respondent has created the story, you will conduct a brief interview.  Your goal is to ask the respondent questions regarding the memory of that event and its relationship to the defund the police movement.

Based on the recommendations for writing interview questions in the last lesson create five interview questions that you would ask people after they provided their narrative.

 Do you see any possibilities for helping Paul find meaning in his life in the face of death? What diversity issues and ethical considerations might arise in your work with Paul?

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This assignment provides the opportunity for you to demonstrate your ability to apply the concepts covered throughout the course. This assignment MUST be typed, double-spaced, in APA style, and must be written at graduate level English. You must integrate the material presented in the text and cite your work according to APA format.
Culture and Legal/Ethical consideration are required. [This information can be found in Part I as well as in chapters throughout the course text]. You are also encouraged to use outside cultural resources to enhance your understanding.
Use the Case of Stan and Case of Gwen as a guide to theoretical application, referencing in APA style.

See Sample Vignette Analysis located under Resources

Your response to each vignette should be 1-2 pages per vignette for a total of 5-6 pages for the entire assignment plus a title and reference page.
Do not copy and paste the vignettes into your written response
Vignette One
Jack, a 28-year old man, tells you: “Most of my life I have felt pushed and pulled. My father pushed me into school, sports, and so forth, and over the years my resentment grew for him. He was always directing and controlling my life and beating me when I challenged his authority. My mother always gave me a warm, unconditional love and tried to pull me under her protective wing. My parents divorced when I was 18 and without parental control I began a life of self-will in my relationships and in my use of drugs and alcohol. On graduating from college, I rejected my father’s wishes to pursue a career and returned to school to seek another degree. In some ways it’s just a place to be that I like. Most of my life revolves around living for today, a hedonistic style that has no concreteness of goals and aspirations, with a lack of definition of `what a man should be.’ I float in and out of people’s lives. They see an image of me as a despoiler of women, a drug freak, and a cold bastard. My fear is that I am nothing more than that image, that I am empty inside. I want to be able to open up and let people see the warmer, more sensitive sides of me, but I have terrible difficulty doing that. I have a strong need to become close and intimate with others, yet I never let myself become vulnerable because I fear being dependent on them and trapped by their love.”
Assume that Jack comes to you for personal therapy and that all you know about him is what he told you above. Answer the following questions on how you might proceed with Jack within a Psychoanalytic frame of reference:
1.    As a psychoanalytic therapist, do you think that Jack’s current unwillingness to become vulnerable to others out of his fear of “being dependent on them and trapped by their love” has much to do with his mother’s unconditional love? How might this experience be related to his relationships with women now?

2.    Jack describes his father as an authoritarian, controlling, and cruel man who apparently had conventional ideas of what he wanted Jack to become. What are the underlying psychological aspects that you see involved with Jack’s rejection of his father’s wishes? How might you use psychoanalytic counseling theory to explain the fact that in many ways he became what his father did not want him to become?
Vignette Two
Alice and Javier, both in their early 30’s, have been married for 7 years and have three young children. Javier is a Latino, and Alice is a Pacific Islander. Neither his family nor hers was very supportive of marrying a person “not of your own kind.” Consequently, Javier and Alice do not see their parents very often. She feels a real gap without this connection with her family; he maintains that if that’s the way his family wants it, so be it. They have been having a great deal of difficulty as a family for several years. Alice seems to think that Javier is far too strict with the children, demanding full obedience without question. He admits he is a hard taskmaster, but he says that’s the way it was for him in his family.
Alice would like to get a job, yet she stops herself from considering it because Javier becomes extremely upset when she even mentions the issue. His response is: “Why can’t you be satisfied with what you have? It reflects poorly on me if you have to go outside and get work!” Alice has tended to assume the role of keeping peace in the family, almost at any price. This means not doing many of the things she would like to do, lest it lead to an escalation of the conflicts between them. Alice has finally decided that even if it rocks the boat and causes a storm, she cannot continue living as she has. She has asked Javier to go to counseling with her. He has agreed, reluctantly, mostly to understand her better and “do whatever can be done to help her.”
Assume that Alice and Javier come to you for personal therapy and that all you know about them is what they told you above. Answer the following questions on how you might proceed with this couple within an Adlerian frame of reference:
1.    As an Adlerian therapist you will want to make sure that your goals and the goals of Alice and of Javier are in alignment. How might you go about this? What if Javier and Alice have different goals? How might the fact that he is a Latino and she is a Pacific Islander be significant in setting goals?

2.    If you had to speculate at this moment, what are Alice’s “basic mistakes”? Javier’s?  What specific Adlerian techniques might you be most inclined to employ in working with this couple?
Vignette Three
Paul, a 30-year old gay man, has recently found out that he has AIDS. He knows that the disease is serious and likely requires treatment throughout his life. Paul is seeking counseling to help him deal with accepting his diagnosis without resentment and hostility. He is filled with rage over his fate; he keeps asking why this had to happen to him. He tells you that at first, he could not believe the diagnosis was correct. When he finally got several more professional opinions that confirmed he had AIDS, he began to feel more and more anger—toward God, toward his healthy friends, whom he envied, and generally toward the unfairness of his situation. He tells you that he was just starting to live the lifestyle he denied himself all of his adult life and that he had a direction he was going in professionally. Now everything will have to change. After he tells you this, he is sitting across from you waiting for your response.

Assume that Paul comes to you for personal therapy and that all you know about him is what he told you above. Answer the following questions on how you might proceed with Paul within an Existential/Person Centered frame of reference:
1.    Paul tells you that one of the reasons he is coming to see you is his desire to accept his fate. How would you work with him to gain this acceptance? What specific things might you do to help him find ways of living the rest of his life to its fullest?

2.    Do you see any possibilities for helping Paul find meaning in his life in the face of death? What diversity issues and ethical considerations might arise in your work with Paul?
Corey, G.   (2017).   Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy.   (10th ed.).   Belmont, CA   Cengage.    ISBN: 9781305263727

What part of the brain becomes the focus of developmental processes during the 10-to-12-year-old neurological growth spurt?

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Question 1

Researchers interested in infant perception of faces have found that

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infants prefer to look at faces over other complex objects.

faces are uniquely interesting to infants.

“when looking at faces, babies have no preference for type of face.”

babies prefer to look at male faces.

babies prefer their mother’s face.

Question 2

Anita’s mother uses the same ice cream scoop to put ice cream into one large bowl and one small bowl. Anita is upset because she thinks her brother’s small bowl holds more ice cream than her large bowl. Anita has not yet acquired

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conservation.

egocentrism.

reflexes.

assimilation.

accommodation.

Question 3

A correlation cannot be used to determine whether

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children who are friendly are also smart.

honesty in school is related to honesty at home.

intelligence is related to friendliness.

honest children have honest parents.

TV violence causes childhood aggression.

Question 4

Bowerman and other constructivist theorists maintain that the important factor in language development is

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built-in biases.

genetically programmed operating principles.

the constraints on language.

the rate of brain cell development.

the child’s construction of language.

Question 5

Research on spatial cognition indicates that

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girls’ play preferences offer them an advantage in spatial cognition.

video games decrease mental rotation abilities.

play hampers the development of spatial skills.

boys score higher than girls on spatial cognition tasks.

it is not influenced by experience.

Question 6

The sequence of pubertal changes begins about _____________________ for boys than for girls.

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one year earlier.

two years later.

two years earlier.

six months earlier.

three years later.

Question 7

A disorder that causes mental retardation that becomes progressively worse as children get older and is also strongly associated with autism is known as ________________.

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Down syndrome.

Klinefelter’s syndrome.

Fragile-X syndrome.

Turner’s syndrome.

Huntington’s disease.

Question 8

“A set of ideas that explains other people’s ideas, beliefs, desires, and behavior is a theory of”

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mind.

cognition.

personality.

mentality.

beliefs.

Question 9

Children born to poverty-level parents who were adopted into middle-class families typically have IQs that are

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identical to those of their natural parents.

10 to 15 points higher than their adoptive mothers.

10 to 15 points higher than their birth mothers.

identical to those of their adoptive parents.

not related to either set of parents.

Question 10

Which of the following statements describes Lamar’s genotype?

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He has brown hair.

He is short for his age.

He looks like his father.

He has type AB blood.

He is an overachiever.

Question 11

Frank has an IQ of 97. He would be classified as

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learning disabled.

gifted.

mentally retarded.

average.

superior.

Question 12

All of the following are part of Vygotsky’s socio-cultural theory EXCEPT

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zone of proximal development.

operational efficiency.

scaffolding.

naive psychology.

the primitive stage.

Question 13

“Howard Gardner proposes eight separate types of intelligence, including all of the following EXCEPT”

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linguistic.

musical.

componential.

spatial.

interpersonal.

Question 14

“From six months on, babies begin engaging in ________, which is a sound pattern consisting of consonants and vowels.”

Answers:

cooing

babbling

gurgling

fussing

crying

Question 15

Research has shown that a newborn can

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“taste sweet and salty, but not sour or bitter.”

clearly see objects up to eight feet away.

recognize objects better than people.

discriminate his/her mother’s voice from other voices.

efficiently track a moving object.

Question 16

Watson’s Little Albert experiment demonstrated that

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children automatically fear small animals.

classical conditioning plays a role in the development of emotional responses.

operant conditioning is the only form of learning that works with infants.

conditioned stimuli are naturally occurring events.

unconditional stimuli rarely lead to long term conditioning.

Question 17

Research has shown that ____________________ is more important than family income in determining a child’s IQ.

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sibling’s IQ.

good nutrition.

limited television viewing.

quality of parent-child interactions.

activity level.

Question 18

“Billy Jean is a heavy smoker. Her doctor has warned her that research results indicate that if a mother smokes during pregnancy, the child will have”

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foreshortened or missing limbs.

vaginal cancer.

low birth weight.

learning problems in elementary school.

FAS.

Question 19

Maturation refers to

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genetically programmed sequential patterns of change

growth patterns that are not universal across cultures

growth patterns that are highly influenced by environmental factors such as practice

growth patterns that occur in adulthood only

Question 20

“According to Steiner’s research, children can first respond differentially to sweet, sour, and bitter flavors at”

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birth.

one month.

six months.

nine months.

one year.

Question 21

All of the following are common characteristics of children with fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) EXCEPT

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larger than normal size.

smaller brains.

distinct facial features.

heart defects.

physical deformities.

Question 22

The continuity vs. discontinuity issue in development relates to the idea that development

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may occur in stages and sequences

is characterized by critical periods

is characterized by either qualitative or quantitative changes

All of the above

Question 23

“When young children use audible language to help control or monitor their own behavior, they are exhibiting”

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overregularization.

child directed speech.

baby talk.

fast mapping.

private speech.

Question 24

A nativism theorist would believe that perceptual abilities are ________; whereas a empiricism theorist would state that perceptual abilities are ________.

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learned; inborn

inborn; genetic

acquired; learned

genetic; inborn

inborn; learned

Question 25

Renaldo is four years old and is experiencing a neurological growth spurt. What skill will he be attaining?

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evidence of some goal-directed planning

fluency in speaking and understanding language

improvements in eye-hand coordination

improvements in memory function

motor coordination

Question 26

Which of the following do reading experts suggest is critical to success in reading in the early years?

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picture books

silent reading

phonological awareness

workbooks

spelling lessons

Question 27

“When Bette saw a skunk for the first time and asked why the kitty had a big stripe, her mother explained that the animal was a skunk. Now Bette recognizes skunks are different from cats. Bette has used”

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integration.

accommodation.

discrimination.

assimilation.

organization.

Question 28

Bandura added all of the following concepts to traditional learning theory EXCEPT

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abstract modeling.

observational learning.

classical conditioning.

emphasis on cognitive elements.

intrinsic reinforcements.

Question 29

The Apgar scoring system is used to evaluate an infant’s

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status immediately after birth and then again five minutes later.

weight at birth and at one week after birth.

social responses at one day and one week after birth.

“strength of crying, blood pressure, and birth-weight immediately after birth.”

readiness to be taken home.

Question 30

“When a baby understands that her bottle still exists even when she throws it down and it disappears under the sofa, she is demonstrating”

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size constancy.

shape constancy.

object identity.

object permanence.

object constancy.

Question 31

How does Erikson’s psychoanalytic theory differ from that of Freud?

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It is described as psychosexual.

It focuses on psychosocial stages influenced by common cultural demands.

“It is based on libidial energy and incorporates the concepts of id, ego, and superego.”

It includes both a phallic and genital stage.

It states that a child’s success depends on interaction with people and objects.

Question 32

Maria’s baby has just started to see colors. Her baby is how old?

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12 months

9 months

6 months

3 months

1 month

Question 33

“In comparison to adult auditory processes, newborns”

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hear nearly as well in the range of pitch and loudness of the human voice.

have poorer hearing at some pitches but the same hearing at all loudness levels.

have more acuity with high-pitched sounds.

have better auditory acuity at all pitches and loudness levels.

have less acuity at all pitches and loudness levels.

Question 34

Piaget believed that cognitive development is

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characterized by great irregularities.

shaped by the environment.

“an active process of exploration, manipulation, and examination.”

random and unpredictable.

based on personality factors.

Question 35

It is most accurate to describe the genetic material in the nucleus of the cell as

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“DNA, which contains chromosomes and genes.”

“chromosomes composed of DNA, which has segments called genes.”

“genes, which contain DNA and are found on chromosomes.”

“separate bodies called genes, chromosomes, and DNA.”

46 genes made up of DNA.

Question 36

“In research on infant perception, a common research strategy presents an infant with some stimulus until s/he stops responding to it. Then a new stimulus that differs from the first in some specific respect (e.g., color) is presented to see if the infant now responds. This strategy involves the use of what basic process?”

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preference

scanning

constancy

dishabituation

conditioning

Question 37

Current evidence suggests that full (adult-level) visual acuity is reached by what age?

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6 months

2 years

3-4 years

10-11 years

puberty

Question 38

Freud’s psychoanalytic theory of development

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emphasizes conscious drives rather than unconscious drives

proposes that the superego is the part of the personality that operates under the pleasure principle.

is characterized by psychosexual stages including the oral, anal, phallic,latency, and genital stages

proposes that defense mechanisms are the result of conscious efforts to resolve conflict.

Question 39

The great majority of neurons are apparently formed

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by two years after birth.

at birth.

in the third trimester of pregnancy.

between 10 and 18 weeks into gestation.

at conception.

Question 40

“According to Piaget, assimilation involves”

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changing a scheme as a result of new information taken in.

deriving generalizable schemes from specific experiences.

being shaped by the environment.

taking in an event or experience and making it part of a scheme.

an inborn need to put things in order.

Question 41

Which of the following statements describes the person’s phenotype?

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Maria’s 23rd chromosome pair is XX.

Mark’s blood type is AO.

Jill is a carrier of cystic fibrosis.

Larry has brown hair.

Mel has Trisomy 21.

Question 42

Fenson’s research on language indicates that children s first words appear by the age of

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5 months.

7 months.

9 months.

11 months.

12-13 months.

Question 43

Studies of a wide variety of language communities have revealed that

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Asian children skip the prelinguistic phase.

Western children tend to use language before they understand it.

the prelinguistic phase is identical in all language communities.

there is no set pattern for language development.

all language development is genetically programmed.

Question 44″Piaget’s four stages, in order, are”

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“sensorimotor, preoperational, formal operational, concrete operational.”

“preoperational, sensorimotor, concrete operational, formal operational.”

“preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational, sensorimotor.”

“sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational.”

“formal operational, concrete operational, preoperational, sensorimotor.”

Question 45

“Intelligence tests were intended to measure ________, while achievement tests were designed to measure ________.”

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competence; performance

knowledge; aptitude

performance; competence

aptitude; competence

competence; knowledge

Question 46

What part of the brain becomes the focus of developmental processes during the 10-to-12-year-old neurological growth spurt?

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medulla

midbrain

frontal lobes

parietal lobes

Brainstem

Question 47

Whether a child’s development is controlled by innate factors or environmental influences is referred to as

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continuity vs. discontinuity

nature vs. nurture

maturation vs. genetics

idealism vs. rationalism

Question 48

The ecological perspective in developmental psychology

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uses evolutionary theory to explain inborn patterns of behaviors.

emphasizes teaching children about protection of the natural environment.

looks at the context in which the child grows up.

applies theories of animal behavior to understanding human behavior.

was first suggested by Hall.

Question 49

Which theorist is most strongly associated with nativist theories of language?

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Skinner

Freud

Chomsky

Piaget

Vygotsky

Question 50

“Babies vary in the way they react to new things, in their typical moods, in their rate of activity, in the regularity of their daily rhythms, etc. These variations usually go by the name of”

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temperament.

states.

habituation.

instincts.

conditioning.

Develop two assessment questions that are guided by attachment theory that you would ask the client to understand how the stress or distress is affecting the client.

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As you have read, theory guides the conceptualization of the client’s problem and how social workers assess and intervene relative to the problem. However, theory can also shape the self-reflective questions social workers ask themselves. Clients often come to social workers under stress or distress. This then affects how the social worker responds and thus the client-social worker relationship. As a result, Foley, Nash, and Munford (2009) employed attachment theory as a “lens in which to view the reflective process itself and to gain greater understanding and empathy for what each social worker within each unique social work-client relationship can access of that relationship for reflection” (pp. 44).

This week, you will apply attachment theory to the case study you chose in Week 2. In other words, your theoretical orientation—or lens—is attachment theory as you analyze the case study.

To prepare:

  • Review the same case study you selected from last week’s Assignment. (Remember, you will be using this same case study throughout the entire course). Use the “Dissecting a Theory and Its Application to a Case Study” worksheet to help you dissect the theory. You do not need to submit this handout. It is a tool for you to use to dissect the theory, and then you can employ the information in the table to complete your assignment.
  • Review attachment theory and the following article listed in the Learning Resources: Foley, M., Nash, M., & Munford, R. (2009). Bringing practice into theory: Reflective practice and attachment theory. Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work Review, 21(1/2), p39–47. Retrieved http://dx.doi.org/10.11157/anzswj-vol21iss1-2id318

By Day 7

Submit a 1- to 2-page case write-up that addresses the following:

  • Summarize the assumptions of attachment theory in 2 to 3 sentences.
  • Identify the problem in your chosen case study to be worked on from an attachment theory perspective.
  • Explain how attachment theory defines and explains the cause of the problem in one to two sentences.
  • Develop two assessment questions that are guided by attachment theory that you would ask the client to understand how the stress or distress is affecting the client.
  • Discuss two interventions to address the problem. Remember, the theory should be driving the interventions. In other words, you would not identify systematic desensitization since this is not an intervention guided by attachment theory.
  • Formulate one self-reflective question that is influenced by attachment theory that you can ask yourself to gain greater empathy for what the client is experiencing.
  • Explain which outcomes you could measure to evaluate client progress based theory.

Be sure to:

  • Identify and correctly reference the case study you have chosen.
  • Use literature to support your claims.
  • Use APA formatting and style.
    • Remember to double-space your paper.

 

Required Readings

Turner, F. J. (Ed.). (2017). Social work treatment: Interlocking theoretical approaches (6th ed.). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Chapter 1: Attachment Theory and Social Work Treatment (pp. 1–22)
Chapter 25: The Psychoanalytic System of Ideas (pp. 398–410)

Foley, M., Nash, M., & Munford, R. (2009). Bringing practice into theory: Reflective practice and attachment theory. Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work Review, 21(1/2), p39–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.11157/anzswj-vol21iss1-2id318

Note: You will access this article from the Walden Library databases.

Auld, F., Hyman, M., & Rudzinski, D. (2005). How is therapy with women different? In Resolution and inner conflict: An introduction to psychoanalytic therapy (pp. 217–236). Washington DC: American Psychological Association.

Note: You will access this book chapter excerpt from the Walden Library databases.

National Association of Social Workers. (2008). Code of ethics of the National Association of Social Workers. Retrieved from https://www.socialworkers.org/About/Ethics/Code-of-Ethics/Code-of-Ethics-English

Document: Worksheet: Dissecting a Theory and Its Application to a Case Study (Word document)

Document: Theory Into Practice: Four Social Work Case Studies (PDF)

Required Media

Sommers-Flanagan, J., & Sommers-Flanagan, R. (2014). Counseling and psychotherapy theories in context and practice [Video file]. Retrieved from http://www.psychotherapy.net.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/stream/waldenu/video?vid=277

This week, watch the “Psychoanalytic Approaches” segment by clicking the applicable link under the “Chapters” tab.

Note: You will access this video from the Walden Library databases.

Optional Resources

Blakely, T. J., & Dziadosz, G. M. (2015). Application of attachment theory in clinical social work. Health & Social Work, 40(4), 283–289. https://doi.org/10.1093/hsw/hlv059

Fleischer, L., & Lee, E. (2016). The analytic principle and attitude: Mobilizing psychoanalytic knowledge to maximize social work students’ practice competence. Psychoanalytic Social Work, 23(2), 99–118. doi:10.1080/15228878.2016.1149776