Assessment:
The purpose of assessment is to:
1. Develop skills in using critical reflection to maintain a person-in-environment perspective in the health setting generally, whilst respectfully working with and potentially drawing upon other models of practice.
2. Develop and maintain a person-in-environment perspective in relation to specific health topics and issues.
• Use the Template for Blog Contributions to format your weekly blog contributions to your blog group
Template for weekly critically reflective blog contributions (500-800 words in total)
Key Messages
What are the key messages of the reading and lecture material?
Previous knowledge and beliefs
How does the content of the lecture and readings resonate with your previous knowledge and beliefs? Your previous experiences?
Strengths and limitations
What do you see as the strengths and limitations of the various models, theories and explanations put forward in the lecture and readings?
Power
What issues of power exist in this topic area? What are the political assumptions? What is the power position of the social worker, the service system and client?
Personal
What do you see as potential practice issues for you in this area, given who you are and your social location? (For example an Australian middle aged, white woman, from a middle class background, with a professional occupation)
Professional
What are some of the implications for social practice (micro, meso or macro level practice) in this area/or from this topic?
Additional thoughts or issues (only if applicable)
Any other thoughts or issues regarding the topic
References
Two readings you will find useful as background reading are:
Larner, Glenn (2003). Integrating family therapy in child and adolescent mental health practice: an ethic of hospitality. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 24(4), pp.211 - 217.
Lowe, Roger, (2004). Chapter: Borrowing from Other Frameworks. In Lowe, Roger, Family therapy : a constructive framework, (pp.153 - 174). London: Sage.