Response 1: Resiliency Respond to at least two colleagues in one or more of the following ways: · Add to your colleague's suggestion for applying resiliency to Talia's case by suggesting an adaptation of the strategy. · Critique your colleague's suggested application of resiliency to social work practice, stating whether you might use the strategy in your own practice, and why .  · Be sure to support your responses with specific references to the resources. If you are using additional articles, be sure to provide full APA-formatted citations for your references. Colleague 1: B Nineteen year old Talia Johnson was the victim of a rape at a fraternity party (Plummer, Makris and Brocksen, 2014).  This week’s video depiction highlights Talia’s struggle with navigating her way back into the life she knew prior to the sexual assault (Laureate Education, 2013).  The social worker has a glimpse into her daily life, particularly as she struggles with her parent’s understandable discomfort with their daughter remaining on campus (Laureate Education, 2013).  Talia views her current situation as stagnant and not easily changeable.  During these situations, the professional charged with helping the client achieve the best positive outcomes when pairing their innate resiliency with a Strengths Based Perspective (Zastrow and Kirst- Ashman, 2016).  Zastrow and Kirst-Ashman recognize the importance of emphasizing one’s resiliency, particularly when faced with undeniable adversity (Zastrow and Kirst-Ashman, 2016).   While this may be proven as an effective approach, convincing a client who is experiencing consistent feelings of helplessness and hopelessness, is certainly not an easy feat.  Therefore, the focus of this approach should remain small, manageable tasks seen through to completion (Zastrow and Kirst-Ashman, 2016).  In Talia’s case, perhaps suggesting she schedules agreed upon times to speak with her mother would alleviate the stress she feels by receiving the numerous phone calls (Laureate Education, 2013).  The premise behind this suggestion is that when Talia starts seeing small daily success, she may start “buying in” to the fact that she, too, can come back from the trauma that has placed her where she is.  Thus, her acceptance of her own resiliency, while her innate strengths are continually highlighted by the social worker, will only add to her achievement of positive outcomes (Zastrow and Kirst - Ashman, 2016).   By applying this concept of resiliency to Talia’s case, it is clear how this would be an effective approach within my own future social work practice.  Every client with whom a social worker comes in contact, has some innate level of resiliency.  Finding the opportunities to point out resiliency, even in its simplest form, becomes the responsibility of the professional charged with guiding the client toward the desired outcomes.   For example, when a client drives a car for the first time after being involved in a car accide.

1. Response 1:
Resiliency
Respond
to at least two colleagues in one or more of the following ways:
·
Add to your colleague's suggestion for applying resiliency to
Talia's case by suggesting an adaptation of the strategy.
·
Critique your colleague's suggested application of resiliency to
social work practice, stating whether you might use the strategy
in your own practice, and why
.
·
Be sure to support your responses with specific references to
the resources. If you are using additional articles, be sure to
provide full APA-formatted citations for your references.
Colleague 1: B
Nineteen year old Talia Johnson was the victim of a rape at a
fraternity party (Plummer, Makris and Brocksen, 2014). This
week’s video depiction highlights Talia’s struggle with
navigating her way back into the life she knew prior to the
sexual assault (Laureate Education, 2013). The social worker
has a glimpse into her daily life, particularly as she struggles
with her parent’s understandable discomfort with their daughter
remaining on campus (Laureate Education, 2013). Talia views
her current situation as stagnant and not easily changeable.
During these situations, the professional charged with helping

2. the client achieve the best positive outcomes when pairing their
innate resiliency with a Strengths Based Perspective (Zastrow
and Kirst- Ashman, 2016). Zastrow and Kirst-Ashman
recognize the importance of emphasizing one’s resiliency,
particularly when faced with undeniable adversity (Zastrow and
Kirst-Ashman, 2016).
While this may be proven as an effective approach, convincing
a client who is experiencing consistent feelings of helplessness
and hopelessness, is certainly not an easy feat. Therefore, the
focus of this approach should remain small, manageable tasks
seen through to completion (Zastrow and Kirst-Ashman, 2016).
In Talia’s case, perhaps suggesting she schedules agreed upon
times to speak with her mother would alleviate the stress she
feels by receiving the numerous phone calls (Laureate
Education, 2013). The premise behind this suggestion is that
when Talia starts seeing small daily success, she may start
“buying in” to the fact that she, too, can come back from the
trauma that has placed her where she is. Thus, her acceptance
of her own resiliency, while her innate strengths are continually
highlighted by the social worker, will only add to her
achievement of positive outcomes (Zastrow and Kirst - Ashman,
2016).
By applying this concept of resiliency to Talia’s case, it is clear
how this would be an effective approach within my own future
social work practice. Every client with whom a social worker
comes in contact, has some innate level of resiliency. Finding
the opportunities to point out resiliency, even in its simplest
form, becomes the responsibility of the professional charged
with guiding the client toward the desired outcomes. For
example, when a client drives a car for the first time after being
involved in a car accident, this can be identified as form of
resiliency and the first step in achieving their goals. The
ultimate goal would be for the client to recognize this resiliency
within himself, but until this time the social worker can serve as

3. the client’s “strength identifier.”
Laureate Education (Producer). (2013).
Johnson family: Episode 5 [Video file]
. Retrieved from https://class.waldenu.edu
Plummer, S. -B., Makris, S., & Brocksen, S. M. (Eds.). (2014).
Baltimore, MD: Laureate International Universities Publishing.
[Vital Source e-reader
Zastrow, C. H., & Kirst-Ashman, K. K. (2016).
Understanding human behavior and the social environment
(10th ed.)
.
Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.
Colleague 2: J
Talia is a 19-year-old college student who was sexually
assaulted at a frat party. After seeking help from campus
resources and the services of a counselor, she has begun to
experience high levels of anxiety and stress (Plummer, Makris,
and Brocksen, 2014). While Talia has begun to resent her
counselor for the coping mechanisms she has given Talia, Talia
has nonetheless continued to do the things suggested for her,
such as journaling, going to group meetings, and talking about
her feelings (Laureate Education, 2013). As an observer, these
behaviors exhibited by Talia all suggest that she is a resilient
individual who refuses to let the things that have befallen her
ruin her life permanently.
As a social worker, it can be a very difficult task to
convince a client that they are resilient, especially when they
feel like their life is falling apart. As mentioned by Zastrow and
Kirst-Ashman (2016,) giving the individual small, manageable

4. tasks to achieve can boost their confidence and encourage them
to take on larger, more difficult tasks. The social worker in
Talia’s case already has proof that she is resilient by Talia’s
compliance and adherence to journaling and going to group
meetings (Laureate Education, 2013).
In my own practice, using the concept of resiliency will
only serve to increase my client’s self-esteem and self-worth.
By giving clients small goals that they can achieve, I can build
up their confidence and determination. I think it will also be
important to still call clients resilient when they fail at a goal-
by still coming to sessions and admitting failure, they are only
improving themselves. This would also give them the chance to
evaluate the goal or their performance and see what went
wrong, what can be done to fix it, and when can it be tried
again. Resiliency means to be able to keep going through
adversity; it also means to be able to adapt and change with the
situations at hand. By instilling this in clients, they can begin
the healing process.
Laureate Education (Producer). (2013).
Johnson family: Episode 5 [Video file]
. Retrieved from
https://class.waldenu.edu
.
Plummer, S.-B., Makris, S., & Brocksen, S. M. (2013). The
Johnson Family. In
Sessions: Case Histories.
Laureate Education, Inc.
Zastrow, C. H., & Kirst-Ashman, K. K. (2016).
Understanding human behavior and the social environment
(10th ed.)
.
Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.

5. Response 2:
Discussion: Micro vs. Macro Practice
·
Respond
to at least two colleagues by identifying three reasons that
macro practice should not be dominated by micro practice if
social work policy is to effectively deal with the problems of
oppressed and marginalized groups.
·
Support your response with specific references to the resources.
Be sure to provide full APA citations for your references.
Colleague 1: D
Micro practice is to work with individuals. Macro practice is to
work at the organizational level. Micro practice has come to
dominate the social work profession because if we were to break
down the macro and mezzo levels, we are left with individuals.
“Social workers have long recognized that micro and macro
practice are complementary, but they have generally emphasized
the micro, individual treatment aspect of the profession”
(Popple & Leighninger, 2015, p. 7). It has been discussed
plenty that social workers find themselves working with
individuals a majority of the time. The root of the individual’s
issues is based on things that are bigger than the individual
(Popple & Leighninger, 2015, p. 7).

6. Popple, P. R., & Leighninger, L. (2015).
The policy-based profession: An introduction to social welfare
policy analysis for social workers.
(6th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education.
Colleague 2: R
The dichotomy between micro and macro social worker practice
varies in the approaches used. Micro social worker practices are
based on the ideas on how to better equip the individual to deal
with societal needs and expectations. If there is an individual in
need of services, the micro approach will link that individual to
services to assist their individual underlying needs. The macro
social worker approach attempts to have the community meet
people at their levels of need. The idea behind the macro level
approach to is discuss social worker and the needs of group of
individual to larger organizations and agencies such as schools
or child welfare agencies. In essence, and as mentioned in this
week's reading, the ideas of micro and macro practices are to
compliment from one another. Understanding the needs of one
might be just be the needs of the general population of that area,
(Popple & Leighninger, 2015). Therefore becoming familiar and
effective with using techniques on the micro level, might
uncover solutions to bigger societal problems in communities.
Popple, P.R., & Leighninger, L. 2015.
The police-based profession: Introduction to social welfare
policy analysis for social workers.
6th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Educations