Answer each question in order: Use citations from video or lecture to prove you have read and watch the video.
SW WITH IMMG & REFGS:
DISCUSSION 1: Watch the video, Can’s Journey, Links to an external site. about Can’s journey as a young adult, Asian American, diagnosed with bipolar and respond to the questions below:
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V720lROtoPE&t=635s (Can’s Journey)
1. How do you assess the role of culture in Can and his family’s response to Can’s illness, diagnosis, and treatment? What are some observations that you made about social and parental expectations and the impact these potentially can have?
2. What are some of the reasons you think Can is having difficulty managing his emotions as he has gotten older?
3. What role does “living in between both cultures” play for youth in relationship with their parents (inter-generational stress)?
4. How have you experienced stigma and cultural norms as barriers to access to mental health services (as applied to you or anyone you know or have worked with)?
5. How might you work with an individual and his family like Can?
Discussion 2: Review Case Study #2 on Labor Organizing in Chang-Muy and Congress (2024), p. 329. After reading, respond to 3 of the following questions for Case Study #2 ):
1. What social work issues does this case raise?
2. What legal issues does this case raise?
3. What steps can you take to try to help the workers get their jobs back?
4. Do the undocumented workers have a right to be reinstated?
5. What claims can they potentially file?
6. Can they get back pay for the work they perform?
Make sure to integrate information from the reading
Clinical SW: Module 6 Discussion Board 1: Interpersonal Coping
1. Why do clients construct a compromise solution?
2. List Horney’s three coping styles. Do you find them helpful? Why or why not?
3. Why is it important to understand clients’ ego defenses?
4. Describe a current or previous situation with a client in which therapist-induced or client-induced counter-transference occurred. How did you deal with it?