Overview

Social workers need to be culturally responsive, and their research and research methods should reflect this competency. This assignment will give you an opportunity to compare and evaluate three research articles for culturally responsive practices and competence.

By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following EPAS and advanced practice behaviors:

• EPAS Competency 2: Advance human rights and social, economic, and environmental justice.
  • C2.SP.A: Apply leadership skills, decision making, and ethical use of technology, when engaging in interprofessional collaborative practice to advocate for the advancement of human rights with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities to ensure that social resources, rights, and responsibilities are distributed equitably in the specialization of advanced generalist practice.
    • Related Assignment Criteria:
      • Describe the elements of cultural practice and culturally relevant research that can be used to promote social justice for the group you are studying.
      • Discuss how working with this group from an ADEI lens may be helpful.
• EPAS Competency 3: Engage anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion (ADEI) in practice.
  • C3.SP.A: Demonstrate how diversity and intersectionality shape human experiences and apply anti-racist and anti-oppressive intervention techniques and technologies with diverse individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities in the specialization of advanced generalized practice.
    • Related Assignment Criteria:
      • Analyze the elements of culturally relevant research in social work.
      • Evaluate the key differences between traditional and culturally relevant research and its impact on your chosen group.
      • Identify how to engage in collaborative practice to advocate for appropriate services.

Instructions

In this assignment, evaluate cultural research and cultural relevant practices that take culture into consideration. Examine three research articles of your choice featuring the cultural group you have selected. Next, evaluate the method of research conducted for its level of cultural competence. To ensure that this is a scholarly research paper, explore research-based articles and books found by searching through the Capella library databases pertaining to issues of culture in research and culturally relevant practice. Feel free to use the ADEI term in your search as well.

To help you understand some of the unique challenges of culturally relevant research, review the readings concerning culturally relevant research approaches. Then search for scholarly sources in the Capella library and locate at least three articles that add to your knowledge of the cultural group you have chosen to explore for these assignments. Review these articles in a 3–5 page paper in current APA format.

Your assignment should incorporate at least three research studies that have addressed the cultural group you are exploring. Include the following:

• Analyze the elements of culturally relevant research in social work.
  • In the studies you chose to analyze, explain the approaches taken that are specifically relevant to your chosen group.
  • Include analysis and a description of what comprises culturally relevant practice.
• Evaluate the key differences between traditional and culturally relevant research and its impact on your chosen group.
• Describe the elements of cultural practice and culturally relevant research that can be used to promote social justice for the group you are studying.
• Identify how to engage in collaborative practice to advocate for appropriate services.
• Discuss how working with this group from an ADEI lens may be helpful.

Additional Requirements

Your assignment is expected to meet the following requirements:

• Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message. Express ideas clearly, employing correct grammar, usage, and mechanics.
• APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style. Include a cover page and references page. See the Evidence and APALinks to an external site. section of the Writing Center for guidance.
• Resources: A minimum of five scholarly sources. All literature cited should be current, with publication dates within the past 5 years.
• Length of paper: 3–5 typed, double-spaced pages.
• Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.

Remember that your instructor will be providing feedback on your assignments. Use that feedback to improve the content of your assignment.

Competencies Measured

By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and rubric criteria:

• Competency 3: Demonstrate how diversity and intersectionality shape human experiences and apply anti-racist and anti-oppressive intervention techniques and technologies with diverse individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities in the specialization of advanced generalized practice. (C3.SP.A)
  • Describe the elements of cultural practice and culturally relevant research that can be used to promote social justice for the group. (C2.SP.A)
  • Discuss how working with this group from an ADEI lens may be helpful. (C2.SP.A)
• Competency 4: Apply leadership skills, decision making, and ethical use of technology, when engaging in interprofessional collaborative practice to advocate for the advancement of human rights with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities to ensure that social resources, rights, and responsibilities are distributed equitably in the specialization of advanced generalist practice. (C2.SP.A)
  • Analyze the elements of culturally relevant research in social work. (C3.SP.A)
  • Evaluate the key differences between traditional and culturally relevant research and its impact on the chosen group. (C3.SP.A)
  • Identify how to engage in collaborative practice to advocate for appropriate services. (C3.SP.A)
• Competency 5: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for members of the social work profession.
  • Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for members of the social work profession.