Sociology homework help

Sociology homework help. SOCW 6311: Social Work Research in Practice II
Please note that this is a master level course so master level work. Please check the grammar, use APA format and you have to use the reading that I have provided to you. You must answer all the questions that I post. Thank you.
Week 5
Readings
• Knight, K. R., Lopez, A. M., Comfort, M., Shumway, M., Cohen, J., & Riley, E. D. (2014). Single room occupancy (SRO) hotels as mental health risk environments among impoverished women: The intersection of policy, drug use, trauma, and urban space. International Journal of Drug Policy, 25(3), 556-561. Retrieved from Walden Databases.
• Lee, M. Y, Wang, X., Cao, Y., Liu, C., & Zaharlick, A. (2016). Creating a culturally competent research agenda. In A.Carten, Siskind, & M. P. Greene (Eds.), Strategies for deconstructing racism in the health and human services (pp. 51-65). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
• Marsiglia, F.F. & Booth, J.M. (2015). Cultural adaptations of interventions in real practice settings. Research on Social Work Practice, 25(4), 423-432. Retrieved from Walden Databases.
• Vaismoradi, M., Turunen, H., & Bondas, T. (2013). Content analysis and thematic analysis: Implications for conducting a qualitative descriptive study. Nursing & Health Sciences, 15(3), 398-405. Retrieved from Walden Databases.
• Document: Week 5 Handout: Content Analysis of Focus Groups (PDF)
Week 5 Handout: Content Analysis of Focus Groups 1
Research Question 1: What are the barriers in implementing mental health services in the Asian
American community?
Research Design: Qualitative, Descriptive
Research Method: Focus groups
Patient Related Barriers
Social Stigma Associated with Mental Illness
“….but also a lot of my patients have a fear of going to psychiatrists because of the social
stigma ….” and most of them have financial difficulty and have to pay an additional fee
to pay for psychiatry. (DN, pg. 1)
Financial Difficulties
“….but also a lot of my patients have a fear of going to psychiatrists …. and most of
them have financial difficulty and have to pay an additional fee to pay for
psychiatry.” (DN, pg. 1)
Characteristics of the Asian patient
Mistrustful of mental health
“I found it easier sometimes to refer them to someone else because a lot of times
I find that the Chinese patients are unwilling to open up or trust.” (TPW, pg.
2)
“we have to see why Asians go to see a health care provider, forget about
whether the mental health profession, or even a regular clinician. Why does the
patient see the provider..is it because they have seen a chinese herbalist and have
failed and have used their last efforts to see a western doctor, that will put
tremendous expectations on this relationship, as opposed to someone who
comes to see the doctor for the first time and has faith that the Western
doctor.” (Anthony, pg. 7)
Don’t Ask for Assistance
“It is hard to get them ask for help and ….. “ (TPW, pg. 2)
Patient’s View of Mental Health Provider as Last Resort
“we have to see why Asians go to see a health care provider, forget about whether the
mental health profession, or even a regular clinician. Why does the patient see the
provider..is it because they have seen a chinese herbalist and have failed and have
used their last efforts to see a western doctor, that will put tremendous expectations on
this relationship, as opposed to someone who comes to see the doctor for the first time
and has faith that the western doctor.” (Anthony, pg. 7)
Week 5 Handout: Content Analysis of Focus Groups 2
Service Provider Related Barriers
“Despite all the training I have found that working with Chinese populations there are a lot of
barriers I am finding that it is not as easy working with them.” (TPW, pg. 2)
“Pass the Buck theme”
I found it easier sometimes to refer them to someone else because a lot of times I find that
the Chinese patients are unwilling to open up or trust. (TPW, pg. 2)
Lack of training/skills/expertise
“….and I find that I struggle with my own skills and I am trying to get some help in
being a better primary care provider and getting my skills more fine tuned for the
population that I work with.” (TPW, pg. 2)
“On the Western provider side, we noticed that when a provider is confronted with a
Western patient they are reluctant to enter areas because they are not really sure if that
behavior is natural to that culture so that while they know pathology on the one
hand they are not sure if what they are seeing is pathological. I remember one indian
psychiatrist said that a schizophrenic in india is the same schizophrenic in NY but you
know there are excuses sometimes and avoidance so educating the general provider
concerning what really can be expected is very important.” (MAC, pg. 8)
“My comment is very similar, there are very big knowledge gaps for providers and
what providers bring to the situation…” (JK, pg. 8)
Cultural Assumptions
“well what you have to think about is other areas, our own cultural biases. There are
certain things that I make assumptions on without even knowing it just because of
what I know growing up or and I think these are areas we need to address.”
(Ernesto, pg. 7)
Systems Barriers
Primary Care is the Access Point for Patients with Mental Disorders
“….primary care as sort of the gatekeeper those are the guys that are picking up
the symptoms and so I sort of see that this is a good project to enhance our
understanding of this population.” (AN, pg. 2)
Changing Financial Systems
“Another issue is that there are financial issues that primary physicians often see that
there is cost shifting going on that psychiatry or whomever else is telling us to do this
new activity that is really shifting a responsibility” (LR, pg. 4)
Week 5 Handout: Content Analysis of Focus Groups 3
Changing of Responsibilities
“Another issue is that there are financial issues that primary physicians often see that
there is cost shifting going on that psychiatry or whomever else is telling us to do this
new activity that is really shifting a responsibility” (LR, pg. 4)
Professional Medical/Psychiatry Culture
Differing Cultures and Ideologies Within Medical Profession
“one major barrier is that there is a difference in physician culture that an internalist
perceives a different way of treating a patient than a family care doctor and the
pediatrician looks at it differently than an internalist and that certain cultures when they
have certain specialty referral systems will feel differently when they specialty referral
system is used less frequently, and we have found them being treated much differently”
(LR, pg.4)
Miscellaneous
“we tend to forget that the mental health problems are a spectrum, they may not be
necessarily psychosis or dementia, manic depression, they may not be a DSM 4 diagnosis,
they may be life style related , they are a state of flux it is a spectrum, when a women is having
infertility when a women loses a pregnancy when a women delivers a baby and it is another girl
but she wanted a boy, or when she delivers a baby it is what she wanted but the constraints, but
the burden is too much, so it can gyn issues it could be ob issues but they are not dsm categories
and I think that a barrier is that we do not acknowledge the existence of these kinds of things…”
(IH, pg. 6)
“The other big thing that I think of is the other side of the spectrum which is when we do see
these patients and when we do have the luxuries of identifying these issues that I have just
outlined that we try to squeezed these people into the diagnoses that I just described so we
make it into an anxiety disorder or we make it into a depression when it could be just life style
related or cultural related..” (IH, pg. 6)
Assignment
Assignment: Analyzing Focus Group Findings
Imagine that two focus groups have been conducted in an Asian American and immigrant community in a large urban city. The rationale of conducting the qualitative study was because it has been noted that many Asian Americans and immigrants are reluctant to seek mental health services. To further understand this issue, service providers including social workers, counselors, doctors, and nurses were recruited to discuss the barriers in implementing mental health services targeted to Asian Americans and immigrants. After the focus groups were transcribed, two research assistants were hired to conduct a content analysis of the transcripts. Refer to the Week 5 Handout: Content Analysis of Focus Groups.
As the social worker, you have been asked to analyze the focus group data and are charged with working with an advisory board in the community to formulate social work practice recommendations using the ecological model.
To prepare for this Assignment, review Week 5 Handout: Content Analysis of Focus Groups.
Analyzing Focus Group Findings
Submit a 3-4-page report of the following:
1. Discuss the themes found in the Week 5 Handout: Content Analysis of Focus Groups. Based on this data, what is your analysis of the current barriers to services?
2. Create two social work recommendations to address a current barrier and explain how the recommendation proposed addresses the findings.
3. Discuss how you would collaborate with the research stakeholders (e.g. service providers and community members) to ensure that the data are interpreted accurately and that the practice recommendations made will be culturally appropriate.
4. Critically reflect on your own culture and explain how your cultural values and beliefs may have influenced how you interpreted the focus group data. What specific cultural knowledge do you think you need to obtain to conduct culturally sensitive research with this group?
Support the assignment with references using assigned readings and/or additional scholarly literature.

Sociology homework help