Subject-Mental health and social well beingWords- 2000
Angela is in her late twenties. She has a daughter who is 4 and also has a 12-week-old baby. During her recent pregnancy, she left her partner, Michael due to increasing levels of control and abuse. Recently her GP diagnosed her with post-natal depression. Michael has used this diagnosis as ‘evidence’ to argue that Angela is not capable of parenting, as he is mounting a case in the Family Court wanting to be granted full-time custody of their children. Angela is scared of losing her children but is also struggling with day to day demands of parenting 2 children while living in her friend’s garage. You work at SA Health’s Women’s Health Service and today, Angela will be coming to see you for the first time. When you phoned Angela to organise the appointment, she mentioned that she would need to bring her children with her. FEED BACK FROM TUTOR FOR ASSIGNMENT -2 Here’s a summary of some of the concerns the marking team and I have seen in the papers, first with regards to the case studies, and second regarding academic skills · Recovery: While most of you were able to articulate what recovery in mental health looks like, often the rest of the paper seemed to ignore the recovery perspective entirely. · Immediately thinking about referring on to someone else—yet recovery is all about relationships—relationships take time, trust and care. · Recovery covers a lot of things, like the language we use—this was discussed way back in week 1 and in the course text. Therefore, client and patient are entirely inappropriate, service user is ok, but even better, referring to the people in the case study by their name is best—and it humanises them. · Describing or using approaches that depend upon a hierarchy of knowledge, where professionals know everything and people with lived experience don’t—recovery understands and respects the unique knowledge held by people with lived-experience · Taking a pathologizing approach (eg blaming the individual about their circumstances) without taking into account any of the social circumstances of the individual—this is where the use of the sociological imagination (C Wright Mills) is important · Punishing and/or blaming individuals for their social circumstances. For example, in the case of Angela, rarely was the impact of domestic violence acknowledged and some papers even suggested considering removing Angela’s children from her because of her post-natal depression—before even meeting her. When reading papers taking this approach, I wondered what had been remembered from learning about social workers roles in the Stolen Generations. This case study would have been the perfect place to use feminist theory BTW. · Heaps of assumptions (none were positive) were made about a person in the case study, without that information being in the case study at all Angela’s post-natal depression was too frequently focussed on as the risk factor for the kid’s safety, and often with no analysis of her ex-partner’s threat to Angela or her children. Way too many paragraphs and large sections of writing went un-referenced, contained incomplete sentences and poorly structured paragraphs. Many papers were let down by rushed/imprecise writing and poor referencing, shown through a lack of editing. Some had whole sections written in one massive paragraph—please see this webpage for a guide on how to structure a paragraph https://libguides.newcastle.edu.au/writing-paragraphs/structure WELF2019 Assignment 3 Word Count (approx. 1900 words—this includes in-text references, but does not include the reference list) The task Imagine you are a mental health worker and, after working with (the person/people at the centre of the case study you addressed in assignment 1) you raised this experience for discussion at a recent team meeting. Feedback from your colleagues suggests that they had similar stories and experiences with service users over the last year. After discussing this at length, your supervisor asked if you might consider writing a submission to the Australian Government’s Inquiry into Mental Health & Suicide Prevention. You have agreed to write a submission, especially because the AASW talks about the importance of advocacy and writing submissions, saying: “In our commitment to social justice and human rights, the AASW advocates for key social issues and the profession at many levels, including responding and presenting evidence to government inquiries and royal commissions” (AASW, n.d. para 1). Before you start: · Return to the feedback given by your marker from assignment 1 as well as the ‘all of class’ feedback · Read the marking rubric which will be used to assess this work · Look through the resources linked below. · When you are ready to write, use the following proforma ‘how to set out the assignment’ to structure your writing. · You must reference your work with a minimum of 15 peer reviewed sources (eg books, book chapters and journal articles, especially those used in this course) and a minimum of 3 other reputable sources (for example: AASW Code of Ethics, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Institute of Health & Welfare, Australian Productivity Commission, government documents or reports, Organisational Website etc). · Ensure that your submission is written and informed by a recovery oriented approach · Read this document by the AASW about making a policy submission https://www.aasw.asn.au/document/item/8708 · Read the Terms of Reference of the Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Committee https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/House/Mental_Health_and_Suicide_Prevention/MHSP/Terms_of_Reference How to set out the assignment: *you can change these headings to something more creative I am a xx and work at xx (Name of Organisation, this is indicated in the Case Study) Existing Services: Max 150 words What services does your organisation currently provide and to which groups of people? Why do they provide that service? For example, does the service provide a prevention approach, an early intervention approach, a crisis approach or something else? *Do not just copy and paste information from the organisation’s website, paraphrase the information and accurately reference the organisation’s website in your reference list. If the available information about the organisation is minimal, discuss the possibilities with your tutor BEFORE submitting this assignment. Ensure that you check your Turnitin Report before submitting your work. Research which helps explain the mental health concerns of the person you worked with in the Case Study Assignment: 500 words Succinctly outline the main mental health challenge/challenges facing this population group as a whole and say why; explain using relevant research and statistics about this target group (eg young men using performance enhancing drugs, or women who are recently released from prison). Ensure that you use academic, peer reviewed resources to support your claims that are appropriate in terms of location (Australia), discipline (eg social work) and that are recovery oriented approach focussed. The social and lived-experience consequences of these mental health challenges: Max 500 words This should be a mixture of personal reflection and research and can be structured like this: When working with this group/person/case-study, I (or me and my colleagues) have seen the following social consequences… As a mental health practitioner/social worker who uses a recovery-oriented approach to working, here are some of my concerns or the concerns of workers in my organisation… This is not unique situation, here is the research to support what I am seeing… This is what I think needs to happen: 700 words If your organisation could receive funding to provide an early intervention program, community response or approach which could specifically target people like (those in your chosen case study), what might that be? Here you need to support your idea with current research and examples of existing program approaches. Indicate if your suggested approach/approaches are primary, secondary and/or tertiary interventions (these were discussed in week 2). You are welcome to focus on one type of intervention or can suggest 2 types of intervention (eg 1 x primary & 1 x tertiary) Sign off in a professional manner appropriate to your role and the submission (50 words) Marking Criteria Fail 2 (39-0%) Fail 1 (40-49%) Pass 1 (50-54%) Pass 2 (55-64%) Credit (65-74%) Distinction (75-84%) High Distinction (85-100%) Does the submission respond to the in the case study? Articulating a Recovery Oriented Approach (ROA) using the framework drawn upon in this course. No connection made with the meaning of ROA as it has been discussed in this course. No obvious connection made with the meaning of ROA as it has been discussed in this course. Author attempts but does not convincingly use a Recovery Oriented Approach. Author has attempted to convincingly use a Recovery Oriented Approach, although this is not always successful. Author shows that they have implemented a Recovery Oriented Approach in their submission. Author has demonstrated how using a Recovery Oriented Approach has been implemented in their submission. Author has drawn upon Recovery Oriented Approaches to inform their submission in a sophisticated manner. How does the submission explain the mental health concerns of population with respect to the chosen case study? No sense of any appropriate explanation. Little sense of any appropriate explanation. Author attempts to demonstrate mental health concerns but does so in a limited way Author demonstrates an understanding of mental health concerns based upon their research Author demonstrates a solid understanding of mental health concerns based upon their research Author demonstrates a strong understanding of mental health concerns based upon their research Author has responded to this section on mental health concerns drawing upon extensive research and in a sophisticated and sensitive manner. How does the author address the section on social and lived-experience consequences of the mental health challenges? No sense of any appropriate explanation. Little sense of any appropriate explanation. Author attempts to address the social and lived-experience consequences of the mental health challenges but does so in a limited way Author demonstrates some understanding of the social and lived-experience consequences of the mental health challenges Author demonstrates a solid understanding of the social and lived-experience consequences of the mental health challenges Author demonstrates a strong understanding of the social and lived-experience consequences of the mental health challenges Author has responded to this section on the social and lived-experience consequences of the mental health challenges in a sophisticated and sensitive manner. How has the author addressed the section titled, ‘what needs to happen?’ Poorly Author offers suggestions that do not align with the approach taken in this course Author proposes an approach that that does not clearly articulate the relevance to this course Author proposes an approach that appears appropriate, but does not support that with research Author proposes an appropriate approach, supported with research Author has responded to this section very well, using appropriate research to support their ideas Author has responded to this section using creativity and has supported that with appropriate research. The following section sets out the expected standards of writing and editing F1 F2 P1 P2 C D HD Overall written expression, tone and language. The language we use is important. Often, the tone, language and expressions used do not meet the required standards. Sometimes the tone, language and expressions used do not meet the required standards. At times, the language and tone wavers away from expectations. There are some structural inconsistencies in ordering the information. Sometimes, but