SWK313 Case Study One: You are a social worker in a program with in a non-government agency that supports people recovering from addiction. Steve, a 23 year old man presents at your service as he has been has a upcoming Court date for some drug related offences and his lawyer told him if he attends a course it will prevent him from going to prison. Steve has a long history of alcohol and marijuana addiction as well as several prior convictions for theft and burglary. Steve has no family support and left home and school when he was 14 after being abused by his alcoholic step father. He is currently living in transitional housing with friends who are also drug users. Steve has never been able to hold down a job, but picks up occasional work. Steve agreed to one of one counselling however, during sessions he would often make rude remarks he was angry and bored and would often walk out of sessions. SWK313 Case Study Two You are a social worker in a government child protective service and you receive the following report and are allocated to work with the family: Subject Children: Stephen (aged 8 Mary (aged 4 Parents Jeanie (b.mo aged 28) Tom ( b.fa aged (32) Address: Remote community (during Wet season) Outstation (during Dry season) Case Manager: Tess Current situation: A notification was received from a remote community health centre notifying that Stephen and Mary will be air lifted to Hospital due to weight loss (each averaging 200 grams per week). B/mo of the children Jeanie is pregnant and is also considered to be severely malnourished so will also be flying in with the children for treatment. Family will be accompanied by another female family member who notifier describes as ‘responsible’. Notifier advised that they had applied the World Health Organisation classification for malnourishment to both children and it meets the ‘severe’ category. Notifier also notes that it is unusual to need to admit a child of eight (8) years of age to hospital for malnourishment. Notifier stated they have continued to experience difficulties in following-up health issues for the children because family spends large amounts of time at their Outstation and there is no service outreach to this location. Previous involvement with the family has resulted in two (2) hospitalisations for Stephen and Mary for failure to thrive and each time their weight had increased on their return to community however contact is lost when family moves to the outstation. Notifier added that b/mo Jeanie has disclosed that there is often little to no food available at the Outstation as it runs out quickly. Jeanie presents as disempowered when discussing family issues with the health centre and her own serious malnourished state supports the view that her nutritional needs take low priority in the family hierarchy. The health centre has had no direct involvement with the birth father as he never accompanies Jeanie or the children to their service. When.

1. SWK313 Case Study One:
You are a social worker in a program with in a non-government
agency that supports people recovering from addiction. Steve, a
23 year old man presents at your service as he has been has a
upcoming Court date for some drug related offences and his
lawyer
told him if he attends a course it will prevent him from going to
prison.
Steve has a long history of alcohol and marijuana addiction as
well as several prior convictions for theft and burglary. Steve
has no family support and left home and school when he was 14
after being abused by his alcoholic step father. He is currently
living in transitional housing with friends who are also drug
users.
Steve has never been able to hold down a job, but picks up
occasional work.
Steve agreed to one of one counselling however, during sessions
he would often make rude remarks he was angry and bored and
would often walk out of sessions.
SWK313 Case Study Two
You are a social worker in a government child protective
service and you receive the following report and are allocated to
work with the family:
Subject Children:
Stephen (aged 8
Mary (aged 4
Parents

2. Jeanie (b.mo aged 28)
Tom ( b.fa aged (32)
Address:
Remote community (during Wet season)
Outstation (during Dry season)
Case Manager:
Tess
Current situation:
A notification was received from a remote community health
centre notifying that Stephen and Mary will be air lifted to
Hospital due to weight loss (each averaging 200 grams per
week). B/mo of the children Jeanie is pregnant and is also
considered to be severely malnourished so will also be flying in
with the children for treatment.
Family will be accompanied by another female family member
who notifier describes as ‘responsible’.
Notifier advised that they had applied the World Health
Organisation classification for malnourishment to both children
and it meets the ‘severe’ category.
Notifier also notes that it is unusual to need to admit a child of
eight (8) years of age to hospital for malnourishment.

3. Notifier stated they have continued to experience difficulties in
following-up health issues for the children because family
spends large amounts of time at their Outstation and there is no
service outreach to this location.
Previous involvement with the family has resulted in two (2)
hospitalisations for Stephen and Mary for failure to thrive and
each time their weight had increased on their return to
community however contact is lost when family moves to the
outstation. Notifier added that b/mo Jeanie has disclosed that
there is often little to no food available at the Outstation as it
runs out quickly.
Jeanie presents as disempowered when discussing family issues
with the health centre and her own serious malnourished state
supports the view that her nutritional needs take low priority in
the family hierarchy.
The health centre has had no direct involvement with the birth
father as he never accompanies Jeanie or the children to their
service. When the Centre has used a local interpreter to discuss
family issues, Jeanie is even less forthcoming with details of
her family life. A staff member at the health centre has told
notifier that she saw the father driving around the community
recently in a new 4-wheel drive.
SWK313 Case Study 3
Betty (26) is an Aboriginal woman who lives in suburban
Darwin with her Partner (Rick) He is an Anglo Australian
casual labourer. They have been together for 2 years and Betty
is 6 months pregnant with her first child. She has visited the
hospital for a health check up and the nurse made a referral to
the social worker to have a ‘chat’ as she said she had been

4. feeling down and was not very happy about the baby coming.
Betty did not identify any other family she was close to other
than her partner Rick. Betty works at Windscreens Obrien on
accounts, as she has her certificates and likes to work. She
hides some of her money as Rick is in control of the finance’s
and she likes to sneak out every now and then and buy
something of her choosing. She is worried about the baby
coming and not having access to money.
Due date
:
28 May 2016
Length:
2500 words
Value:
60%
Task:
Essay / Case Study analysis
There are (3) case studies available. Choose (1) case study to
base your essay/case study analysis on. In your essay you will
consider the practitioner
in working with the case study and support your ideas and
approaches to practice you have learning in this course. You can
chose one or more of the theoretical models learned throughout
this course to prepare your essay. For example: Strengths Based
Approaches, Attachment Theory, Systems ecological approach
and anti- oppressive practice. Your essay can include

5. consideration of:
•
The social work/practitioner role and the likely organisation
context of the service response to the case study.
•
The client and their significant others (extended family).
•
What are your initial thoughts about the case study and what
you would take into consideration preparing to work with the
people in the case study?
•
How does your understanding of theory and models of practice
help you to understand the situation.
•
How your understanding of theory and models of practice
influence the approach you might take with the case study and
outline this how you would work with this scenario.
•
Consider what evidence can you find in the literature to help
you critically evaluate your chosen approach to working with
the client.
Criteria of Assessment:
Analysis/Argument(60 marks)

6. Demonstrated understanding of concepts, theory or
perspective/model chosen
Application of concepts in critical analysis.
Use of clear framework
Key concepts, debates and issues identified
Critical reflection on the topic
Topic discussed in adequate depth - material relevant to topic
Evidence of wide reading
Structure/Organisation (20 marks)
Comments:
(
e.g. flow, linking between sections, good paragraph structure.)
Clarity of Expression (10 marks)
Correct spelling/punctuation.
Good sentence/ Succinct writing
Referencing (10 marks)
Bibliography Quality/number of references good
correctly/consistently presented/Sources adequately
acknowledged. Minimum of (5) academic references.