Describe your own journey in understanding the role of diversity and inclusion in your practice providing clear examples of how one’s understanding of diversity and inclusion has changed over time.

Assignment Question

As an advanced practitioner, you must be able to articulate your theoretical orientation to your clients, interns, and staff confidently. As a leader in the social work field, you will use your theoretical orientation to help drive programs and policies on behalf of your clients and agency. Now it is time to take ownership of a theoretical orientation further. Your text and articles for this week introduce the concept of discourse, the social conversation that influences how we think about and discuss social work issues. These issues include service user needs and our profession’s response in light of dominant discourses, social science-behavioral discourses, and alternative discourses. 1] Explain your theoretical orientation including the journey to reach one’s current theory of practice. Describe how specific discourses have shaped your theoretical orientation to date, including a discussion of how one remains open to new perspectives or theoretical evidence. How have you integrated new perspectives or theoretical evidence? This is an opportunity to reflect on your own experiences and your developing understandings related to theory and discourse. Describe your own journey in understanding the role of diversity and inclusion in your practice providing clear examples of how one’s understanding of diversity and inclusion has changed over time. Explain how your current theoretical orientation influences your leadership style and preferences influences, providing clear examples of how one’s understanding of leadership has changed over time. Support main points and assertions with relevant and credible evidence, correctly citing sources using the current edition APA format. Citations are free from errors. Reading Resources Healy, K. (2014). Social work theories in context: Creating frameworks for practice (2nd ed.). Red Globe Press. Ensure hanging indent on your references and spell out numbers under 10 when used in a sentence.