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MSWPG7108 Social work practice with groups and communities

Topic - Bushfire in Australia

Case study analysis- Individual PowerPoint presentation

Assessment Task: Case study PowerPoint presentation

The basis of your case study can be the disaster event chosen for your group report in assessment 3.

Students are required to research a natural or human-made disaster at a local, national or international level. You are required to apply community practice approaches drawing from two theories/frameworks to your case study. The response will draw from community work approaches and social work theory, practice and values.

Assessment 2 requires students to critically analyse community practice approaches and to explore the potential dilemmas and challenges arising from their application to the disaster chosen for your group report. The presentation needs to display critical analysis of community practice approaches in response to a disaster from a social work perspective.

Your case study will include the following:
• Description of the disaster (but keep it brief and relevant to a social work response).
• Impact of the disaster on groups and communities, including identification and discussion of groups at increased risk.
• Details of social works role in disaster events, considering group work and community practice approaches in particular.
• Discussion of characteristics and principles of two theories/frameworks that could be applied to the community practice approach in response to your disaster. Discussion will link to (a) broader social work theories practice and values and (b) consider social, cultural and economic issues.
The community practice approach needs to be outlined in detail in your presentation and should comprise 60-70% of the presentation. Your community practice approach should be evidence informed: drawing from research/literature and theories and frameworks, community knowledge and your own practice and personal experience.

Community practice approaches generally draw from critical theories and transformative/progressive perspectives. For your case study analysis you can choose from the following progressive social work theories/approaches:
• Community development
• Eco social work/ green social work
• Decolonising practice

• Feminist perspective
• Other critical approaches as negotiated with the MSWPG7108 lecturer.
Drawing from more traditional social work theories and approaches and integrating these with transformational community development approaches is another practice approach that can be used. You can also choose to use any of the following theories/approaches:
• Strengths based approaches
• Trauma Informed Practice
• Systems theory
• Psychosocial responses
• Other approaches as negotiated with the MSWPG7108 lecturer.

The presentation can be in any format the student feels is most effective, e.g., generic report style, as a discursive presentation using bullet points, or in a problem-solution format. Students can also approach this task using social work processes of assessment and intervention. For example, the nature of the disaster and the people and communities affected is a form of community assessment and planning an appropriate response using community- based approaches is a community level intervention.
Presentations need to be 10 minutes of the student's own work and the use of videos from other sources is not included in this time requirement. For example, you cannot submit a presentation with a 6 minute YouTube clip as part of your presentation.

Reference material should be appropriate for the case study comprising peer reviewed academic sources as well as community-based knowledge sources. PowerPoint slides should be fully referenced using APA 7 citation style and include a final reference list slide/s.
Rationale for Task:

This task addresses the following Learning Outcomes:

K1. Identify the place of community work in social work practice and examine social work ethics and values in the context of community work;

K2. Demonstrate knowledge of theories and frameworks utilised in community work;

K3 Determine processes and methods of engaging and working with communities in disaster contexts;

K4: Demonstrate an awareness of principles of mutual aid and group work and their application to community work processes; K6: Identify potential role conflicts, tensions and ethical dilemmas when working with communities and strategies for addressing these and;

S1. Identify and apply social work ethics and values to community work practice;

S2. Develop knowledge of theoretical models and frameworks that inform community-level practice;

S3 Apply appropriate processes and methodologies for engaging and working with communities in disaster contexts;

S4. Use appropriate communication, interpersonal and group work skills;

S6 Integrate eco-social work, environmental justice, social action and activist approaches into community practice and;

S7. Reflect on and review practice as part of the process of developing a personal and professional practice framework with communities.

A1. Ability to select and explain appropriate theoretical models/frameworks of social work community practice and apply them to simulated settings;

A2. Engage and work with communities in a collaborative manner which reflects social work ethics and values;

A3. Capacity to recognise complexity and uncertainty in community work and develop appropriate strategies to address common problems and ethical issues within the community development context.

Attachment:- Practice with groups and communities.rar