As you read throughout the weeks you will formulate and support postings and responses reflecting the understanding of the elderly. Fear of aging leading to changes and eventually death become a reality for many elders and as an effective social worker it imperative to assess multiple dimensions, strengths and challenges being experienced by an elder. You will integrate professional social work approaches, social work values and ethics, spirituality, cultural competence in working with the elderly. Also consider your own personal and professional experiences and how (if any) this learning/experience may impact the way you work with families in the future.
Please utilize the directives and questions below to help frame at least one of your two required posts for each board.
Identify two fears reflected in behaviors in individuals and/or families and assess how you as culturally sensitive social worker would provide an intervention. Provide specific practice examples that could be incorporated to reduce level of fear and anxiety felt by dying people. Discuss the action(s) or behavior(s) and the outcome.
Using the strengths perspective, identify strengths of the elderly and of the aging process and explain your reasoning for your analysis.
Identify multidisciplinary interventions would be helpful in attending to the elderly and their families? Explain why you think so.
There are a number of situations/circumstances that present themselves/surface with an elder and family that is in crisis, living through (a) stressful event(s) and/or is having difficulty coping. Identify some of these dilemmas and resolve them.
Identify and describe risk factors and types of anxiety disorders in older adults. Describe how a Hispanic elder may use the term “nervios”. How is it similar or different to anxiety symptoms?
(Note the following are study questions taken directly/modified from Social Work with Older Adults)
An older adult has both a medical examination and cognitive assessment for dementia and the evidence is strong to suggest the older adult has Alzheimer’s disease. The family begs both the physician and social worker not to tell the older adult. What should the social worker do?
Describe reminiscence and life review. Are they the same type of therapy? How does one, the other or both delve into unresolved problems for older adults? How do they differ in terms of emotions that are explored?
A social worker is working with an older woman who complains constantly that her illness is a punishment from God for things she has done in her life and is openly angry. The worker’s concept of a supreme being is one of a loving and compassionate spirit who does not punish. What should the social worker do? What would it mean to integrate spirituality and social work intervention techniques? What type of open-ended questions would you use in working with the client and why?
This assignment will allow you to:
Facilitate the application of theoretical aging frameworks such as the interdisciplinary, biological, psychological, and social science.
Critically reflect on as well as compare and contrast effective and ineffective culturally competent practice interventions.
Explore your world-views.
Grapple with ethical dilemmas that can present themselves while working with families from other cultures and professional .disciplines and how to resolve them.
Identify/examine your own biases and level of cultural competence.
Consider personal inner conflicts.
Evaluation for Critical Thinking Discussion Boards: You are required to provide a minimum of one original post. You must respond to one other student’s post following the same standard/criteria as outlined for your original post. Your critical reflections will be graded on a 0 to 100 scale. Note that you must meet the full criteria to earn the highest points. You must integrate two academic readings per posting. You will need to integrate two scholarly articles (one outside scholarly article & one assigned reading article) and textbook content to work towards earning 100 points. Should you not integrate the required scholarly articles and textbook content, you will not earn 100 points. You must cite any readings that you include in your posts
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