Assignment #1: Engagement Strategy
(20% of final grade)
This assignment is designed for you to apply culturally appropriate strategies to engage and build rapport with a difficult client case. In each vignette you are asked to consider how you (whom the client is meeting for the very first time) could develop a working relationship and to support your intervention strategies with the assigned reading material in the syllabus.
When reading the vignette, think about the unique strengths and challenges each client presents and how you can use that knowledge to build rapport. Consider the cultural, spiritual, religious, and filial identities that each client in the vignette displays and apply your reading to understand the unique considerations for each case.
Due: The day of Unit 5 class, through the Assignment Upload and Grading page.This assignment relates to student learning outcomes 1, 2 and 6.
Please consider the following questions in your engagement strategies:
This paper is only about engagement.
What is (are) the major obstacle(s) in engaging this client?
What is your clinical countertransference in working with this client? Please use the first person tense for this section.
What does the literature/research say about engagement with this client?
What is your strategy to engage this client considering all your answers above?
Academic Paper Guidelines
Select 1 of the vignettes. The paper should be 4-6 pages in length (not counting the title page or reference list), double-spaced, with 1-inch margins on all sides, with 12 point Times New Roman font. Insert page numbers with the title page. Use subheadings (in bold font) to organize your paper. See APA Manual p. 62 for levels of headings. Do not restate the vignette or the questions in your paper, though you can identify the client as a subheading, if desired. Throughout the paper, please provide conceptual and empirical evidence to support your intervention, referencing a minimum of 4 scholarly works (at least 1 of those must be found outside of the 544 syllabus). Use editorial referencing styles as specified in the APA Publication Manual 6th Edition (http://apastyle.apa.org/).
The title page should be formatted as follows:
SOWK 544
Assignment #1: Engagement Strategy
[Student Name]
[Date]
[Course Instructor]
[University Name]
The evaluation of the paper will be based on whether you addressed all aspects of the assignment, the quality of your written work (graduate level writing, organization, flow, clarity, depth, mechanics of writing such as grammar, spelling, etc.), and the correct application of APA style. Avoid citing from only one source to support entire sections of your paper.
Proofread and edit your work.
It is expected that students will be responsible for submitting their own work and not the work of other students. If you study with other students, be conscious of shaping and writing your own work, and not relying on a “group” consensus of what should go in the paper. Refer to the university guidelines on academic integrity and plagiarism if you have any doubts.
Late submissions without prior permission from the instructor will have 1 point deducted for each day late. Extensions are only granted under extreme circumstances and are at the instructor’s discretion.
