Analyze a social worker’s approach to a child abuse case, considering missed
opportunities and the application of social work ethics and values.
- Review Brandon’s case in the Social Work Case Studies interactive media in the
Learning Resources. - Reflect on the social worker’s actions and how you would approach the case.
Write a 2- to 4-page paper in which you review the approach taken by the social worker
in Brandon’s case. - Identify how the social worker might have used the ecological model to
understand Brandon’s situation based on a person-in-environment perspective.
Explain the use of the ecological model in this case on micro, mezzo, and macro
levels. - Describe strengths that the social worker may have missed in assessing Brandon
and his mother. - Explain how the social worker applied social work ethics and values in the case.
- Review the challenges that the social worker identifies and explain the impact the
abuse could have had on Brandon had his strengths not been identified and
addressed.