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Ray Case Assignment

Ray gains self-confidence from exercising, socializing with the other team workers at his part-time fast-food job, and honing his woodworking skills. He graduated high school. Ray applies to college with the support of his teacher-mentor and gets a full scholarship. He would be the first in his family to attend college. However, his father George becomes sick with lung cancer the summer before his freshman year of college. Ray doesn’t know where to turn. He is estranged from his father’s side of the family due to a fight George had with his brother years ago. His mother’s side of the family do not live in the area, and he’s never had a close relationship with them. He feels a sense of obligation to George and guilt for what he’d said about wishing him dead, ray never leaves for college, letting the scholarship lapse. He stays and cares for his father until George dies four months later. Now 18, Ray lives alone with a rescue pitbull named Daisy. He has maintained his fast-food job, but after George’s death, he begins to show up at work late, unshowered, and occasionally drunk. Ray’s boss tells him that he understands he’s grieving, but he can’t show up in that state. The boss puts him on probation. If he is lte, skips work, or shows up inebriated again, he will be fired. If Ray loses his job, his housing will be in jeopardy as well. Ray’s work friends encourage him to see a social worker.

Ray Case Assignment

Assignment Below

To provide an appropriate intervention, social workers first need to have conducted a thorough assessment. Having a comprehensive understanding of a client and their social environment allows a social worker to accurately identify the presenting problem and help the client develop goals to address their needs. Part of the assessment should be how power and privilege connect with the problem. For example, the client’s gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disability, or socioeconomic status may put them at a disadvantaged or marginalized position.

Additionally, evidence-based practice requires social workers to use the best available evidence to inform their thinking and treatment decisions. In this Assignment, you further prepare for the biopsychosocial assessment by identifying the presenting problem and searching for evidence to deepen your understanding of Ray’s case.

Resources

Be sure to review the Learning Resources before completing this activity.

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Ray Case Assignment

To Prepare

Locate at least 1 peer-reviewed scholarly resource that could inform your understanding of Ray’s case.

Submit a 2- to 3-page paper in which you:

Describe the presenting problem(s).

Identify a specific peer-reviewed research article and explain how it could inform understanding of the problem or population.

Explain how power and privilege may influence the case (as it relates to gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disability, or socioeconomic status).

Please use the Learning Resources and your identified peer-reviewed scholarly resource in your paper. Make sure to provide APA citations and a reference list.