Week 9 Assignment: Biopsychosocialspiritual Assessment

Overview

In direct practice at the micro-level, social workers must often learn about many different aspects of a client's life to develop intervention options specifically for that client. The Biological, Psychological, Social, and Spiritual, also known as the BioPsychoSocialSpiritual (BPSS), culturally informed assessment and intervention plan is a detailed document designed to organize and gather this information. This assignment will give you the opportunity to report and apply information you gathered during your role plays in the second half of this course. Additionally, you will apply evidence-based, scholarly research to your client's situation.

By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following EPAs and generalist practices:

• Competency 1: Demonstrate ethical and professional behavior.
  • (C1.GP.C): Demonstrate professional demeanor in behavior; appearance; and oral, written, and electronic communication.
    • Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards, and use client's preferred pronouns throughout the entire assessment.
• Competency 2: Engage diversity and difference in practice.
  • (C2.GP.B): Present themselves as learners and engage clients and constituencies as experts of their own experiences.
    • Describe a client's presenting problem from the client's point of view, using the client’s quoted words.
• Competency 7: Assess individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
  • C7.GP.A: Collect and organize data, and apply critical thinking to interpret information from clients and constituencies.
    • Provide complete identifying and demographic information for a client.
    • Describe a client's background history in detail.
    • Summarize a current scholarly article that addresses a client's case from an ecological systems perspective and attach the article to the assignment.
  • C7.GP.C: Develop mutually agreed-on intervention goals and objectives based on the critical assessment of strengths, needs, and challenges within clients and constituencies.
    • Apply an ecological systems perspective to assess a client's functioning, problem summary, and other factors.
• Competency 8: Intervene with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
  • (C8.GP.A): Critically choose and implement interventions to achieve practice goals and enhance capacities of clients and constituencies.
    • Identify local resources to provide care for a client's mental health emergency.
• Competency 9: Evaluate practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
  • (C9.GP.A): Select and use appropriate methods for evaluation of outcomes.
    • Describe the results of a client's mental status exam, including suicide and homicide assessment.

Instructions

Create an Assessment Report

1. Use the Biopsychosocialspiritual Assessment Template [DOCX] to prepare a highly factual, detailed biopsychosocialspiritual assessment report about a mock client you worked with in one of your synchronous sessions.
   • In the template, replace the italicized text with the assessment information about the client.
   • Write the Bio-Psycho-Social-Spiritual (BPSS), Culturally-Informed assessment and intervention plan in a professional format, rather than as a course paper.
   • Be sure to maintain culturally competent language, including preferred gender and pronouns, etc., throughout the document.

Summarize a Related Scholarly Article

1. In addition to completing the biopsychosocialspiritual assessment, search for and cite a current scholarly (peer-reviewed journal) article published within the last five (5) years that addresses the client's history, presenting problem, and/or goals, barriers, and approaches from the ecological systems perspective.
2. Summarize the article. In your summary, apply the ecological systems perspective to the client's history, presenting problem, and/or goals, barriers, and approaches identified. You must state your specific reason for selecting the article.
3. Your written work should be clearly written with bolded identifying headings for each section and without errors that detract from the content.

Submission Requirements

1. Attach your completed Bio-Psycho-Social-Spiritual (BPSS), Culturally-Informed assessment document in the correct assignment area by the due date.
2. Attach a copy of the article (a link for the article is not sufficient) in your assignment submission in the correct assignment area by the due date.

Review the rubric for this assignment and aim to achieve a distinguished score on each rubric criterion.

Additional Requirements

The assignment you submit is expected to meet the following requirements:

• Written communication: Written communication is free from errors that detract from the overall message.
• APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA Style and Format. Refer to the Evidence and APA. page on Campus for guidance.
• Cited resources: Cite and reference a minimum of one scholarly source. All literature cited should be peer reviewed and most should be published within the past five years.
• Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
• Due date: Assignment must be submitted to your instructor in the courseroom no later than 11:59 p.m. on Sunday of this week.