6361Wk 3: Analyzing Social Problems In Week 3 you are reintroduced to the family case studies you have seen throughout your concentration year. You will analyze the social problems within each family and apply the skill you would use in working with these family members as clients. You are provided with additional media for each family that allow you to use your skills to identify the policy and social problems that are impacting these families. Additionally, you explore policy advocacy skills in relation to your clinical social work skills. Learning Objectives: Analyze social problems related to social work practice Apply policy advocacy skills to address a social problem Analyze the impact of social problems on social work populations Analyze social policies Learning Resources Required Readings SOCW 6361 Webliography These websites will be required throughout the semester. Become familiar with these websites, especially when doing research for your assignments. Community Toolbox. (n.d). Chapter 5 Section 3: Social planning and policy Change. Retrieved from http://ctb.ku.edu/en/table-of-contents/assessment/promotion-strategies/social-planning-policy-change/main Community Toolbox. (n.d). Chapter 5 Section 4: Social action. Retrieved from http://ctb.ku.edu/en/table-of-contents/assessment/promotion-strategies/systems-advocacy-and-community-organizing/main Jansson, B. S. (2018). Becoming an effective policy advocate: From policy practice to social justice. (8th ed.). Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole Cengage Learning Series. Chapter 7, “Analyzing Problems in the First Step of Policy Analysis” (pp. 204-243) Midgley, J., & Livermore, M. M. (Eds.). (2008). The handbook of social policy (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Chapter 14, “Critical Social Policy” (pp. 215–235) (PDF) Required Media ( Note to the writer: Required Media need to be watched in order to do the assignment) I will upload Laureate Education. (Producer). (2013). Levy (Episode 7 ) [Video file]. In Sessions. Retrieved from https://class.waldenu.edu Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 4 minutes. Discussion: Analyses of Social Problems in Case Studies As a social worker, often you need to use your policy advocacy skills to ensure that your clients are receiving the services that they need. Although you may tend to think of policy advocacy skills as separate from your clinical social work skills, they are very similar. Think of the skills that you would use in working with a client such as Jake Levy. How could you apply these skills to policy advocacy? How will you use these skills to identify the policy and social problems that are impacting these families? In this week’s Discussion, you will continue to follow the Levy, Bradley, Petrakis, and Cortez families to start the process of policy advocacy. In this Discussion, select one of the four integrated videos and identify the problems experienced by the client(s). Assignment discussion Post your responses to the following: Who is defining the problem? What values are reflected in this definition of the problem? What is being omitted in this definition? What other problems do you see that are not being acknowledged?