Order ID 53563633773 Type Essay Writer Level Masters Style APA Sources/References 4 Perfect Number of Pages to Order 5-10 Pages Description/Paper Instructions
Assignment Overview
Mentorship and engaging with colleagues are important components of professional development. In this assignment, you engage with an experienced social work supervisor as a means of better understanding the field and best practices within the profession. Through this glimpse into the real world of social work, you will better understand the concepts and theories you are learning in your course.
By successfully completing this assignment, you demonstrate your proficiency in the following EPAS and the advanced generalist specialized behaviors:
- Competency 1: Demonstrate Ethical and Professional Behavior.
- C1.SP.A: Apply professional use of self and leadership skills with colleagues, clients, groups, organizations, and communities.
- Related Assignment Criterion:
- 8. Explain the importance of self-care in social work practice when acting as a supervisor.
- Competency 1: Demonstrate Ethical and Professional Behavior.
- C1.SP.B: Articulate and provide leadership in the application of the core values and ethical standards of the social work profession through an ethical problem solving model to aid in critical thinking, affective reactions and ethical decision making related to individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities to guide and inform ethical practice in the specialization of advanced generalist social work.
- Related Assignment Criteria:
- 3. Connect the NASW Code of Ethics to social work and best practices in supervision.
- 4. Explain how education, training, and practice support can help protect the code of ethics and best practices of social work supervisors.
- 5. Explain how technology supports best practices and ethical standards used in social work practice.
- Competency 2: Engage Diversity and Difference in Practice.
- C2.SP.A: Analyze dimensions and differentiation in diversity and apply the influence of relationships and affective reactions to intervention techniques and technologies with diverse clients, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
- Related Assignment Criterion:
- 6. Explain dimensions of diversity and how they influence leadership and supervision in social work.
- Competency 3: Advance Human Rights and Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice.
- C3.SP.C: Analyze and respond to evolving leadership, technological, political, economic, social cultural, geographical, and environmental contexts to shape the specialization of advanced generalist practice.
- Related Assignment Criteria:
- 2. Identify best practices and standards related to supervision and leadership integrated into the social work profession.
- 5. Explain how technology supports best practices and ethical standards used in social work practice.
- 7. Describe how leadership skills advance social and economic well-being when working collaboratively.
- Competency 5: Engage in Policy Practice.
- C5.SP.A: Apply leadership skills and decision making as social change agents to collaborate with clients, colleagues, and identified stakeholders to advance social and economic well-being in the delivery of effective and technology-assisted social work services to individuals, families, and groups.
- Related Assignment Criterion:
- 7. Describe how leadership skills advance social and economic well-being when working collaboratively.
- Competency 6: Engage With Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.
- C6.SP.A: Apply critical thinking and decision making in verbal and written communication through the use of leadership and technology when engaging with colleagues, individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
- Related Assignment Criterion:
- 10. Apply critical thinking through written communication in analyzing social work best practices and supervision.
- Competency 6: Engage With Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.
- C6.SP.B: Apply and integrate theories of human behavior and the social environment in the specialization of advanced generalist practice when engaging with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
- Related Assignment Criterion:
- 9. Describe conflict theories that support best practices as an advanced generalist supervisor.
- Competency 7: Assess Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.
- C7.SP.A: Apply critical thinking and decision making in verbal and written communication through the use of leadership and technology when assessing colleagues, individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
- Related Assignment Criterion:
- 10. Apply critical thinking through written communication in analyzing social work best practices and supervision.
- Competency 7: Assess Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.
- C7.SP.B: Apply and integrate theories of human behavior and the social environment in the specialization of advanced generalist practice when assessing individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
- Related Assignment Criterion:
- 9. Describe conflict theories that support best practices as an advanced generalist supervisor.
- Competency 8: Intervene With Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.
- C8.SP.A: Apply critical thinking and decision making in verbal and written communication through the use of leadership and technology when intervening with colleagues, individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
- Related Assignment Criterion:
- 10. Apply critical thinking through written communication in analyzing social work best practices and supervision.
- Competency 8: Intervene With Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.
- C8.SP.B: Apply and integrate theories of human behavior and the social environment in the specialization of advanced generalist practice interventions with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
- Related Assignment Criterion:
- 9. Describe conflict theories that support best practices as an advanced generalist supervisor.
- Competency 9: Evaluate Practice With Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities
- C9.SP.A: Apply critical thinking and decision making in verbal and written communication through the use of leadership and technology evaluations with colleagues, individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
- Related Assignment Criterion:
- 10. Apply critical thinking through written communication in analyzing social work best practices and supervision.
- Competency 9: Evaluate Practice With Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.
- C9.SP.B: Apply and integrate theories of human behavior and the social environment in the specialization of advanced generalist practice evaluation with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
- Related Assignment Criterion:
- 9. Describe conflict theories that support best practices as an advanced generalist supervisor.
- Competency 9: Evaluate Practice With Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.
- C9.SP.D: Analyze and respond to evolving leadership, technological, political, economic, social cultural, geographical, and environmental contexts to shape the specialization of advanced generalist practice evaluation.
- Related Assignment Criteria:
- 2. Identify best practices and standards related to supervision and leadership integrated into the social work profession.
- 5. Explain how technology supports best practices and ethical standards used in social work practice.
- 7. Describe how leadership skills advance social and economic well-being when working collaboratively.
Assignment Description
For this assignment, interview a supervisor in social work and reflect on the information you learn. You also conduct research on the information you gather from the interview and connect it to critical or conflict theory and advanced generalist best practices as a supervisor.
The information you gather through your interview and research should include content that prepares you to competently discuss the following areas in your paper:
- Best practices and standards that are a part of supervision and leadership within the social work profession and how they relate to the NASW Code of Ethics.
- The NASW Code of Ethics and how it supports best practices in supervision.
- Education, training, and practice support available to social workers’ supervisors.
- The use of technology and how it relates to best practices.
- Diversity and how it affects leadership and supervision.
- How do you use leadership skills when working with a supervisee to advance social, economic, and environmental well-being? How does this affect supervisee performance in addressing social, economic, and environmental well-being?
- Self-care and how it is applied in social work practice as a supervisor.
- Critical or conflict theory and how to apply best practices as an advanced generalist supervisor.
Assignment Instructions
As you prepared for your interview, you designed questions to ask the social worker supervisor about each of the following content areas. You also need to conduct a literature review to gather additional evidence-based information to enhance the information you gathered from the interview. It might be helpful to conduct the literature review synchronously to designing the interview questions. This written assignment is your opportunity to synthesize the information gathered from the interview and your literature review into a comprehensive and concise discussion about best practices in supervision. You must make clear connections between the interview and the theories and standards involved in the profession.
Complete the following:
Section 1
Copy and paste the e-mail that confirms, by reply of your interviewee, your meeting with the social work supervisor you met with for this assignment. The confirmation must include the name, credentials, agency, and contact phone and e-mail address of the person interviewed. It must also include the meeting date, time, and location of your meeting. This information is subject to confirmation by your instructor. If this information is not included in the assignment, it will be returned to you with a grade of zero.
Section 2
Organize your paper, using headings, to address each of the content areas. Be sure that you synthesize information from the interview with content learned from the text, articles, NASW resources, and additional resources into these categories.
- Identify best practices and standards that are a part of supervision and leadership within the social work profession and how they are integrated into the social work profession. Why are they important to the profession?
- Connect the NASW Code of Ethics to Best Practice Standards in Social Work Supervision.
- Explain how education, training, and practice support can help protect the NASW Code of Ethics and Best Practice Standards in Social Work Supervision.
- Explain how technology supports best practices and ethical standards used in social work practice.
- Explain dimensions of diversity and how they influence leadership and supervision in social work.
- Describe how to use leadership skills when working with a supervisee to advance social, economic, and environmental well-being? How does this affect supervisee performance in addressing social, economic, and environmental well-being?
- Explain the importance of self-care in social work practice when serving as a supervisor. Why is this important and include examples of best practices in self-care.
- Describe critical or conflict theory that support best practices as an advanced generalist supervisor.
- Apply critical thinking through written communication in analyzing social work best practices for supervision.
Additional Requirements
The assignment you submit is expected to meet the following requirements:
- Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
- APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style and formatting standards. Include a title page, reference page, headers, and appendices as applicable. For example, the list of questions used for the consolation should be in an appendix. Reference the appendices as needed within your paper.
- Cited resources: Minimum of four scholarly sources. All literature cited should be current, with publication dates within the past five years.
- Length of paper: Minimum of four double-spaced pages.
- Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
Note: Your instructor may also use the Writing Feedback Tool to provide feedback on your writing. In the tool, click the linked resources for helpful writing information.
Resources
- Analyzing Supervisory Skills Using an Interview With a Professional Social Work Supervisor Scoring Guide.
- Capella library.
- Capella Writing Center.
- Social Work Masters Library Research Guide.
- Writing Feedback Tool.
- Informational Interview Prep.
- Informational Interviewing Tips.
- APA Style and Format.
- Code of Ethics.
- Best Practice Standards in Social Work Supervision [PDF].
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QUALITY OF RESPONSE NO RESPONSE POOR / UNSATISFACTORY SATISFACTORY GOOD EXCELLENT Content (worth a maximum of 50% of the total points) Zero points: Student failed to submit the final paper. 20 points out of 50: The essay illustrates poor understanding of the relevant material by failing to address or incorrectly addressing the relevant content; failing to identify or inaccurately explaining/defining key concepts/ideas; ignoring or incorrectly explaining key points/claims and the reasoning behind them; and/or incorrectly or inappropriately using terminology; and elements of the response are lacking. 30 points out of 50: The essay illustrates a rudimentary understanding of the relevant material by mentioning but not full explaining the relevant content; identifying some of the key concepts/ideas though failing to fully or accurately explain many of them; using terminology, though sometimes inaccurately or inappropriately; and/or incorporating some key claims/points but failing to explain the reasoning behind them or doing so inaccurately. Elements of the required response may also be lacking. 40 points out of 50: The essay illustrates solid understanding of the relevant material by correctly addressing most of the relevant content; identifying and explaining most of the key concepts/ideas; using correct terminology; explaining the reasoning behind most of the key points/claims; and/or where necessary or useful, substantiating some points with accurate examples. The answer is complete. 50 points: The essay illustrates exemplary understanding of the relevant material by thoroughly and correctly addressing the relevant content; identifying and explaining all of the key concepts/ideas; using correct terminology explaining the reasoning behind key points/claims and substantiating, as necessary/useful, points with several accurate and illuminating examples. No aspects of the required answer are missing. Use of Sources (worth a maximum of 20% of the total points). Zero points: Student failed to include citations and/or references. Or the student failed to submit a final paper. 5 out 20 points: Sources are seldom cited to support statements and/or format of citations are not recognizable as APA 6th Edition format. There are major errors in the formation of the references and citations. And/or there is a major reliance on highly questionable. The Student fails to provide an adequate synthesis of research collected for the paper. 10 out 20 points: References to scholarly sources are occasionally given; many statements seem unsubstantiated. Frequent errors in APA 6th Edition format, leaving the reader confused about the source of the information. There are significant errors of the formation in the references and citations. And/or there is a significant use of highly questionable sources. 15 out 20 points: Credible Scholarly sources are used effectively support claims and are, for the most part, clear and fairly represented. APA 6th Edition is used with only a few minor errors. There are minor errors in reference and/or citations. And/or there is some use of questionable sources. 20 points: Credible scholarly sources are used to give compelling evidence to support claims and are clearly and fairly represented. APA 6th Edition format is used accurately and consistently. The student uses above the maximum required references in the development of the assignment. Grammar (worth maximum of 20% of total points) Zero points: Student failed to submit the final paper. 5 points out of 20: The paper does not communicate ideas/points clearly due to inappropriate use of terminology and vague language; thoughts and sentences are disjointed or incomprehensible; organization lacking; and/or numerous grammatical, spelling/punctuation errors 10 points out 20: The paper is often unclear and difficult to follow due to some inappropriate terminology and/or vague language; ideas may be fragmented, wandering and/or repetitive; poor organization; and/or some grammatical, spelling, punctuation errors 15 points out of 20: The paper is mostly clear as a result of appropriate use of terminology and minimal vagueness; no tangents and no repetition; fairly good organization; almost perfect grammar, spelling, punctuation, and word usage. 20 points: The paper is clear, concise, and a pleasure to read as a result of appropriate and precise use of terminology; total coherence of thoughts and presentation and logical organization; and the essay is error free. Structure of the Paper (worth 10% of total points) Zero points: Student failed to submit the final paper. 3 points out of 10: Student needs to develop better formatting skills. The paper omits significant structural elements required for and APA 6th edition paper. Formatting of the paper has major flaws. The paper does not conform to APA 6th edition requirements whatsoever. 5 points out of 10: Appearance of final paper demonstrates the student’s limited ability to format the paper. There are significant errors in formatting and/or the total omission of major components of an APA 6th edition paper. They can include the omission of the cover page, abstract, and page numbers. Additionally the page has major formatting issues with spacing or paragraph formation. Font size might not conform to size requirements. The student also significantly writes too large or too short of and paper 7 points out of 10: Research paper presents an above-average use of formatting skills. 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