04 Jan Assignment: Supporting Grief and Loss

              SOCW– SOCW 6204/8204: Medical Social Work I 

Assignment: Supporting Grief and Loss

Social workers support clients through many unpleasant situations. Social work roles center around simplifying those events for their clients as well as comforting clients while they endure difficult times. As with so many areas of social work, prevention is the best way to approach and minimize the effects of the majority of the issues that clients struggle with. Bereavement is not an area that prevention can help ease. However, by preparing as much as possible prior to the need, you will be more available to focus on supporting clients emotionally. The project you submit this week should be something you can save and realistically use in your future career. If you take your time with this project it can be something very useful.

 

For the Assignment, you will create a support group for one of the following populations: breast cancer survivor, loss of infant, new widow, child who lost a sibling, or another population as approved by your instructor. You will create a PowerPoint (PPT) presentation in which you will explain the type of group (family, multi-group, etc.) you will be designing. The presentation must include at least 5-7 academic references to support the planning and 3-5 good resources you would pass on to group members.  Record your presentation using the Personal Capture function of Kaltura..

By Day 7

Submit a 5-7 minute recorded PPT presentation which includes the following:

• Explanation of important principles related to grief and loss and how these were taken into account when designing the group

• Description of the structure and function of the group you planned

• Explanation of how diversity and culture was taken into account when developing this group

• Explanation of how you would engage the group members

• Explanation of how you would assess functioning and dynamics

• Explanation of intervention that would be provided in the group, including reasons for sharing the 3-5 recommended resources for the group.

• Explanation of how you would evaluate group outcomes

• References

Include a transcript and/or edit closed captioning on your video to ensure your presentation is accessible to differing abilities

Submit your Assignment.

By Day 5 ( Note!!! PLEASE WRITE OUT EACH QUESTION BEFORE PROVIDING A RESPONSE

 

.Be sure to support your postings and responses with specific references to the resources and the current literature using appropriate APA format and style.

Be sure to support your responses with specific references to the resources. If you are using additional articles, be sure to provide full APA-formatted citations for your references both within the text and on the referencing section.  PLEASE ALWAYS INCLUDE THE REQIRED TEXTBOOK as part of the references and if possible some of the REQUIRED READING if applicable. Please always start by referring to THE TEXTBOOK, below  REQUIRED

Hospital Social Work (Paperback) 2006  Author:

Handbook of Health Social Work 3RD 19

Author: Gehlert, Sarah

ISBN-13: 978-1-119-42072-9

ISBN-10: 1-119-42072-5

Edition/Copyright: 3RD 19

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

 

 Required Readings

 

Gehlert, S., & Browne, T. (Eds.). (2019). End-of-life care. In Handbook of health social work (3rd., pp. 569-584). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119420743 

 

Buckey, J. W., & Abell, N. (2010). Life-sustaining treatment decisions: A social work response to meet needs of health care surrogates. Journal of Social Work & End-of-Life Palliative Care, 6(1–2), 27–50.

 

Cagle, J. G., Kovacs, P. J. (2009). Education: a complex and empowering social work intervention at the end of life. Health and Social Work, 34(1), 17–27.

Johnson, K. S., Kuchibhatla, M., & Tulsky J. A. (2008). What explains racial differences in the use of advance directives and attitudes toward hospice care? Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 57(10), 1953–1958.

National Association of Social Workers. (2004). NASW standards for social work practice in palliative & end of life care. Retrieved from https://www.socialworkers.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=xBMd58VwEhk%3d&portalid=0

 

Peck, M. R. (2009). Personal death anxiety and communication about advance directives among oncology social workers. Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative Care, 5(1–2), 49–60.

 

Silveira, M. J., Kim, S. Y., & Langa, K. M. (2010). Advance directives and outcomes of surrogate decision making before death. New England Journal of Medicine, 362(13), 1211–1218.

 

Document: Kaltura Personal Capture – QuickStart Guide (PDF)

Optional Resources

Black, K. (2007). Psychiatric advance directives and social workers: An integrative review. Social Work, 55(2), 157–167.

Davis, N. S. (2013). A heavenly collaboration: Social workers and churches working to increase advance directive completion among African American elderly. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 23(4), 462–474.

Sessana, L. (2008). The role of spirituality in advance directive decision making among independent community dwelling older adults. Journal of Religion and Health, 47(1), 32–44.

Snow, A., Warner, J., & Zilberfein, F. (2008). The increase of treatment options at the end of life: Impact on the social work role in an inpatient hospital setting. Social Work in Health Care, 47(4), 376–391.