Discussion: Solution-Focused Model: Asking QuestionsSocial workers who utilize the solution-focused model are mindful of how their conversations with their clients, families, groups, or even community members facilitate their thinking about solutions. The client is always the “expert,” and therefore social workers ask questions to explore how the client perceives the problem and situation.Social workers may use solution-focused questions such as the miracle question. For example, “Suppose you woke up one morning and by some miracle everything you ever wanted, everything good you could ever imagine for yourself, had actually happened—your life had turned out exactly the way you wanted it. What would be different in your life?” When clients are asked this, it forces them to reflect on what they want or would like to achieve. By projecting themselves into the future, clients are more likely to imagine what is possible rather than focusing on the past and their failures. This allows for the possibility of developing solutions.In this Discussion, you apply the solution-focused model and solution-focused questions. You provide other solution-focused questions, similar to the miracle question that was provided for you.Although the textbook provides actual examples of solution-focused questions, always think about your client—you may have to modify the question a bit to take into account the client’s age, cognitive and developmental stage, culture, etc., so that the question makes sense to the client.To prepare:Recall a case from your fieldwork experience to use for this Discussion.Review and focus on pages 520–521 in your textbook.By Day 3Post:In 1 to 2 sentences, briefly identify and describe the problem as perceived by the client, family, or group that you dealt with in your past fieldwork experience.From the list of solution-focused questions on page 520 (e.g., exception questions, coping questions, scaling questions, and relationship questions), identify two different types of questions, and ask each question as if you were actually asking the questions to the client. (Remember, do not use the miracle question.)Remember that the goal of these questions is to assist clients in identifying a solutionExplain how asking these two questions would help the client in coming up with the solution.In 1 to 2 sentences, reflect and explain how asking these questions made you feel and perhaps how the client might feel.By Day 5Respond to two colleagues:Identify a barrier that might make it difficult to implement the solution-focused model with the client described.Discuss how a social worker could help a client re-focus on the present, rather than on their past.Colleague 1: Allison Class, In my fieldwork experiences, there have many different problems that have come up that needed to be solved conjunctively. One problem that I faced was my client not having enough caregivers to take care of him throughout the day until his wife and daughter got home. He was completely bed-bound and required all of his ADLs to be done for him besides feeding himself. To better my understanding of the solutions that the patient and his family wanted I could ask exception questions. The first question would be: What are the qualities of a caregiver that you could not tolerate when receiving a caregiver to assist you? This question is so important because of the poor work that has been done previous in his caregiver experiences. Second, I would use a coping question. My question to him and his family would be: How have you been handling being by yourself when your family isn’t home and there is no caregiver so far? These questions would help the client and his family come to a solution by allowing them to explore what has gone right and wrong so far in their caregiver’s experiences with various agencies, and then what deal breakers should be added to the list for optimal care. These questions do help me feel more secure because then I know exactly what they don’t want and do want. Making my choices in solutions for them will be accurate and educated. These questions were also good for the patient because they allow him and the family to have a voice and advocate for what best care for the client looks like. AllieTurner, F. J. (Edu.). (2017). Social Work Treatment: Interlocking theoretical approaches (6th ed.). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.Colleague 2: Kelly Evans In doing my fieldwork, I had a 16-year-old adolescent that came to me with the history of molestation. This was perpetuated on her by a family friend over the course of two years. The two different questions that I would focus on are the coping question and the scaling question. Question one would be, how have you been able to cope with your day-to-day activities, like school and such? Question two would be, on a scale of 1 to 10, with one being the worst and 10 being the best, how would you rate yourself? Why would you pick that number and what would you have to do in order to be a number higher? In solution focused therapy, coming up with coping questions and scaling questions lays the foundation for setting goals. Looking at these questions is necessary for the social worker to understand exactly what the client desires for their goals. In coming up with goals it will lead to a solution and therefore success in asking these two questions. I felt as though I could really get somewhere with my client, I believe my client would feel as though I really cared for her and that the questions were really thought-provoking. Turner, F. J. (Edu.). (2017). Social Work Treatment: Interlocking theoretical approaches (6th ed.). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Review Film Discussion Guidelines and Grading Criteria on the syllabus. Watch PBS Documentary The New Latinos, episode 4 https://www.ket.org/program/latino-americans/episode-4-the-new-latinos/Highlights the swelling immigration from Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Dominican Republic that stretches from the post-World War II years into the early 1960s as the new arrivals seek economic opportunities.Post a response to The New Latinos of at least 500 words (80%) credit:Give a summary of the documentary, who what? when? where? (20%)Give your critical and personal reaction to the film. (20%) Discuss what aspects of 20th century Latin American studies are illustrated by the movie? What business did the Capó family start? What role did Cuban exiles play in the economic development of Miami? Back up your argument with examples. (20%)

You are to choose ONE question from part A and ONE question from part B to answer.Your answers should be in complete sentences and be between two to three paragraphs.You may only use information provided to you from your textbook or a reading in the module.Please use proper citation, and upload the document as a Microsoft Word attachment.Plagiarism policy: In the case of plagiarism, there will be no rewrites. At a minimum, you will receive a “0” for the assignment and a referral to the Dean.Please refer to the Short Answer Questions Rubric to understand how you may earn full credit for this assignment.Part A:Read both “Evacuation was a mistake: Anger at being Interred," and “Milton Eisenhower Justifies the Internment of Japanese Americans." For the first article, please answer the following:Who was the author of the document? Provide a short biography of the author (be sure to provide a citation for the source used). See the citation guide embedded in the Course Content Browser for examples.What evidence in the document helps you know why it was written? Quote from the document.What three things are found in the document which tells you about life in the United States at the time it was written? Quote from the document.Next, compare the two articles and what you have read about Japanese internment. Was Milton Eisenhower correct in his conclusion? Explain your answer.The author, Eric Johnson, makes several points in his speech, “A Damaging Impression of Hollywood has Spread.” In your own words, please explain what those points are and a brief summary of them. Why did this speech need to be made in front of HUAC? Do you feel the point was made to the members? Why or why not?After watching the video, “The decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” what are the reasons given for dropping the two bombs? Which one(s) do you believe were the real ones and why?Part B:Franklin Roosevelt once said that being an American has always been a “matter of mind and heart” and “never…a matter of race or ancestry.” How true is this statement? Include in your answer a discussion of African Americans and immigrants, including Asians and new immigrants.Evaluate President Truman’s domestic policies. Which parts reflected the New Deal? Why was it so difficult to implement? How did it expand freedom for Americans? How did it restrict freedom?What was the policy of containment? How did the United States enact this policy? Do you think it achieved the desired results? Explain your answer.