COUN 6785 week 2 Discussion: Social Change Portfolio: Part 1: Scope and Consequences

 

 

COUN 6785 week 2

 

Discussion: Social Change Portfolio: Part 1: Scope and Consequences

As you begin to develop your portfolio addressing a social change issue, you will have opportunities throughout the term to use the Discussion boards to share your progress with your colleagues. These forums allow your peers to provide consultative feedback to you, and for you to offer your perspective to them. For this Discussion and others in this course, you are asked to address specific points and to respond to your peers in specific ways. Your experience with these Discussions contributes to your understanding of consultation and to your skills as a practitioner.

To Prepare:

• Review the Learning Resources for this week as they relate to scope and consequences of an identified problem in communities.
• Create a section in your Social Change Portfolio called “Introduction,” and provide an introductory paragraph about your Social Change Portfolio.
• Create a section in your Social Change Portfolio called “Scope and Consequences” and include the following information:
  • The target problem you identified within your community. Select only one problem. This needs to be a public health/mental health problem that can be addressed through prevention.
  • Describe the scope of the problem, such as, the prevalence rates in your community, how those rates compare to national averages, and information about trends. Focus on local trends if available but if local data is not available, then describe national trends. For your project, trends refers to whether rates are increasing or decreasing or if there are other changes in the problem over time.
  • Describe the consequences of this problem in your community including physical health consequences, mental health consequences, social/educational/family consequences, and economic consequences.
  • Provide a one sentence goal statement for your Social Change Portfolio.

Note: For the purposes of this course, your focus is to develop a plan, but not to actually implement the project. In goal setting, consider what is truly achievable. A vast goal such as, “eliminate teen substance abuse in my community,” is unrealistic.

Instead, a goal such as “increase awareness of teen substance abuse and identify resources and a plan to reduce teen substance abuse” is more realistic.

Post a link to your Social Change Project portfolio with the completed “Introduction” and “Part 1: Scope and Consequences” tabs.

Be sure to support the content in your portfolio with specific references to the Learning Resources and identify current relevant literature to support your work.

Be sure to support your postings and responses with specific references to the Learning Resources.

 

 

 

 

 

Required Readings (PLEASE USE THESE AS REFERENCES AS WELL)

 

Wyoming Department of Health. (n.d.). Prevention vs. treatment: Behavioral health Continuum of Care Model. Retrieved from https://health.wyo.gov/publichealth/prevention/substanceabuseandsuicide/what-is-prevention/prevention-vs-treatment/#:~:text=Prevention%20–%20Delivered%20prior%20to%20the,or%20other%20behavioral%20health%20disorder

 

Tucker, S. (2015, December). Powerful possibilities for making prevention better than cure [video]. TED Conferences. (11 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEPMRoBUAkA

 

Walden University Library. (2019, February). Mysteries of the library: Revealed! Peer review [video]. (29 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCW_VVKbsS8&feature=emb_logo

 

Walden University. (n.d.). Scholars of change. Retrieved from https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/social-change/scholars-of-change

 

County Health Rankings & Roadmaps (2018). How healthy is your community? Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Retrieved from http://www.countyhealthrankings.org/.

 

U.S. National Library of Medicine (2018). Health data tools and statistics. Retrieved from https://phpartners.org/health_stats.html.