Assignment 2 – Journal (2,225 words)
You are asked to keep a journal demonstrating your learning in this course. The journal involves seven areas of questions that relate to lectures, tutorial sessions and readings. It will be important to work on your journal as the course progresses rather than leave it until the end of the course.
Internal students are asked to bring their journals to their tutorial class in Week 7 so the tutor can sight them as in-progress. Please note: questions about practice skills are different for internal and external students.
In order to complete the journal, you need to attend and participate in the whole course because many of the questions pertain to sessions in class (or online discussions for external students) and you will not be able to complete the journal without attending or participating.
You will need to use academic references in the journal for most of the questions as specified below. At least 15 references in total are required. Use Harvard referencing style.
Journal Questions
Address the following question areas in your journal. Please note – most questions require the use of references:
1. Historical perspectives on mental illness (Week 2) (225 words)
How have understandings of mental illness shifted over the course of the 20th century? Give three examples.
What are some of the implications of this history for people with mental health problems today, that is, how might this history affect people with mental illness today?
Use references for these questions.
2. Common mental health problems (Weeks 3 and 4) (350 words)
Describe medical model of mental illness and identify three key strengths and three key weaknesses.
Describe the bio-psycho-social model of mental illness and identify three key strengths and three key weaknesses.
Choose one psychiatric condition (for example, schizophrenia, anxiety, depression). Describe its main features, recommended treatments and the key social factors (i.e. social causes and social consequences) that social workers should be aware of and explain why.
Use references for these questions.
3. Recovery approaches to mental health social work (Week 5) (350 words)
Briefly outline a recovery approach to social work intervention in mental health. What are its key elements? What should a social worker DO with clients to ensure a recovery approach?
How might a recovery approach complement social work values and ethics?
What are the strengths of a recovery approach and what might be some of its limitations?
Use references for these questions.
4. Lived experiences of mental health problems (Weeks 6 and 11) (350 words)
What three key points emerged as particularly important for you as a beginning social worker/human service worker in listening to the experiences of the two individuals who spoke to the class about their mental health problems and experiences of treatment? Why do you see these points as important for workers?
Identify three ways you could take consumer experience into account when working as a social worker/human service worker?
In viewing the DVD ‘Off the Rails’ about an woman’s experiences of bipolar disorder, what was her reaction to the onset of mental distress? Name three key ways she managed her condition. What were important sources of support for her?
5. Practice skills in engagement, assessment and case management (Week 8) (350 words)
Describe the key skills involved in engaging with clients who have mental health problems.
Describe the key skills in undertaking a mental health assessment in social work.
Other than when reflecting on your experience of practicing in the triads, use references for these questions.
6. Legal aspects of mental health (Week 10) (300 words)
List the legislative acts that are relevant to mental health and the key principles guiding them.
Summarise the different levels of community treatment and detention and treatment orders in terms of who can make them, length of duration and whether consent is required for psychiatric treatment.
Use references for these questions in addition to drawing from lecture notes.
7. Working with diverse populations (Weeks 12 and 13) (300 words)
Choose a specific population group (e.g. young people, women, men, Indigenous people, another culturally diverse group, older people).
Outline the main mental health problems facing this population group.
What are the social aspects of mental health for this population group?
What practice interventions are important for social workers in working with this group? (this should include attention to both one-to-one intervention and prevention).
Use references for these questions
Criteria for Assessment
The assessment criteria for the journal are to:
-demonstrate your learning about different understandings of mental health and illness;
-demonstrate your learning about practice approaches in mental health social work;
-demonstrate your learning about working with diverse populations in mental health social work.
Instruction:
-the page number of resources must be quoted in in- text referencing.
-must be read essential literature
-read the power point slides
-answer the question accurately
-introduction and conclusion is not needed in the each session question
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