The cinema arts can offer real-life depictions of physical illness and the challenges individuals, families and health care providers encounter. This assignment provides students the opportunity to view a film, critically consider clinical practice concepts pertinent to health care social work presented in this course, and apply these course concepts to pertinent characters in the film. That is, the patient in the film serves as your clinical case. Thus, the physically ill patient is the context by which you will frame your biopsychosocial clinical analysis.
1. Watch the film The Fault In Our Stars
2. Write an analysis that explicitly integrates course concepts as they apply to any three key characters in the film that comprise one of each of the following: patient, family member/ friend, health care provider.
3. Content should include:
Cover Page (Page 1):
~ Your name, course, and date due .
~ Film title, names and brief biography (e.g., name, age, marital status, occupation, diagnosis, role) of the three key characters discussed in your analysis.
4. Analysis Pages (Pages 2-6):
~ From a clinical health social work perspective, analyze any three key characters in the film that represent a patient, family member/friend, and health care provider.
~ Explicitly integrate 15-20 course concepts ( In-text citations) in your analysis. That is, avoid merely telling the story of the film. Specifically highlight/discuss/analyze in terms of course materials (e.g., patient and family biopsychosocial adjustment to any aspect of the physical illness, e.g., diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, coping; intervention strategies, e.g., crisis intervention; death/loss/grief; biomedical ethics; social work role, patient-provider relationship, imparting bad news, interdisciplinary team, etc.). As appropriate, explicitly link with excerpts of case dialogue to support your analysis.
5. Reference page
REQUIRED TEXTS AND READINGS
Gehlert, S., & Browne T. A. (Eds.) (2012). Handbook of health social work (2nd edition). Hobo-
ken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
McCoyd, J. L. M., Kerson, T. S., & Associates (Eds.) (2016). Social work in health settings:
practice in context (4th edition). London & New York: Routledge.
