Ethical Social Work in Complex Case
Assessment Task: Analysis of a complex case
Goal: To critically apply relevant practice concepts and processes to a complex case study
Format: This is an individual assessment, undertaken through a process which requires collaborative engagement in a group of 3-5 students, who operate as a ‘community of practice’. This task requires you to analyse a given problem based learning (PBL) scenario, select a practice location within the scenario from a number of possibilities, identify and justify aspects of the scenario to foreground as the most relevant significant aspects of the practice context, and articulate the enquiries and practice processes a social worker could use to progress their practice in an ethically mindful and context responsive way. The product of this assessments your own reflective and evidence based written and visual analysis of key considerations for context responsive social work practice in complex contexts. You will be expected to participate with peers in your community of practice group and in the workshop discussions.
Criteria: The written submission will be assessed according to your ability to:
- Identify, visually display and discuss key aspects of the practice context for the practitioner to consider including why these are significant
- Identify and justify important practice relevant questions the practitioner could ask and demonstrate the capacity to enquire into these drawing on relevant knowledges and sources.
- Identify and justify at least one significant feature of the context which creates complexity the practitioner should be aware of and drawing on course and professionally relevant literature indicate how they could respond to this
- Identify processes for responding to the above contexts in ethically mindful ways drawing on relevant frameworks, course and case relevant research studies, good quality grey literature, the AASW Code of Ethics, and relevant practice literatures
- Effective professional communication of your analysis using written and visual modes
- Demonstrate and provide evidence of your openness to, and capacity for, collaborative reflection with student peers through a willingness to develop your analysis of practice through dialogue with other students in course processes, expose your practice ideas to scrutiny and feedback, and demonstrate your capacity to deepen and extend your analysis of practice through such processes.
- Demonstrate an emerging professional level of written expression including grammar, punctuation, spelling and referencing
