The purpose of this assignment is to allow you to further practice your assessment skills using the Rodriguez family case study. Constructing a culturagram on the Rodriguez family will enable you to understand the issues that are unique to persons from other countries and cultures. This is the splendor of the culturagram; it allows you to better understand the person with whom you are working including their strengths and areas of need. Developed by Elaine Congress and based on her years of work with Latino populations, the culturagram is a great place to enhance your work with the Rodriguez family.
Instructions
For this assignment, please review Listen: Social Work Podcast — Visual Assessment Tools Culturagram on this topic (there is also, a transcript available for persons with hearing impairments) located in the Learn section of the module.
In this podcast, the moderator of this website, Professor Jonathan Singer, discusses with Dr. Elaine Congress how the tool was developed, and a bit more about how it is used.
For this assignment, students will complete a culturagram, and a summary of the assessment tools. The paper must contain 1.5 pages of narrative content, 1 diagram (not included in the 1.5 pages of narrative), and a title and reference page. Students must include at least 2 sources, such as the course texts, the Bible, relevant journal articles, and/or websites. The paper must be in the current APA format.
As you will learn from going to the website and listening to the podcast, the culturagram has ten areas, or domains. You should address each question that speaks to each domain based on information found in the Rodriquez case study. See the below illustration.
Source: The Social Work Podcast
Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.
