Purpose of Assignment: As if you were interviewing someone, write the first section of a Social History, consistently writing in third-person using neutral and objective language. Transferable Skill: Information Literacy Recognizing when information is needed and possessing the ability to locate, evaluate and effectively use the needed information. Information literacy begins with good writing skills. Human services workers will be called upon to evaluate scenarios and provide supporting documentation and find the information necessary to provide effective service delivery. Instructions: For this written assignment you are being asked to submit the introductory section of a Social History as provided in the Word document attached. To complete this assignment, you will need to complete the document as if you were interviewing a real person (you may choose to interview a real person if possible). The person you interview will become your “pretend client.” This person needs to be someone who is facing current life struggles and include. The person must be willing to provide information. Protect your pretend client’s confidentiality. As a guideline as to the formatting and information that should be addressed in each section: Make sure that you write in third-person language consistently. Report the facts only, without interpretation and or personal commentary. Address all the content required, including the use of subtitles to identify each section of the history. (Do not include the italicized prompts in your subtitles, as those prompts are only there to remind you what to include in the content). Submit in a single-space type using clear and concise grammar and spelling mechanics. Social History format Presenting Problem/Current Psycho-Social Stressors—Include identifying data e.g. age, gender etc. Why client is seeking services, length and duration of problem, how is the problem(s) impacting/affecting the client’s life and functioning. Talk about any other life stressors that might contribute to the problem. What does the client hope to gain from receiving services i.e. goals? Mental Health/Substance Abuse History—Include information about previous counseling, personal history of mental illness, family history of mental illness, previous or current psychiatric treatment, hospitalizations. Discuss history of substance abuse including family history, in or outpatient treatment, current drug usage etc. Medical History—Include information about current medications, illnesses, diseases, surgeries, chronic or acute conditions, general health etc. Purchase answer to see full attachment Explanation & Answer: 700 Words Tags: human services Information Literacy social history Psycho Social Stressors Substance Abuse History User generated content is uploaded by users for the purposes of learning and should be used following our company’shonor code & terms of service.

MLA In-Text Citations: The Basics

Guidelines for referring to the works of others in your text using MLA style are covered throughout the MLA Handbook and in chapter 7 of the MLA Style Manual. Both books provide extensive examples, so it’s a good idea to consult them if you want to become even more familiar with MLA guidelines or if you have a particular reference question.

BASIC IN-TEXT CITATION RULES

In MLA Style, referring to the works of others in your text is done using parenthetical citations. This method involves providing relevant source information in parentheses whenever a sentence uses a quotation or paraphrase. Usually, the simplest way to do this is to put all of the source information in parentheses at the end of the sentence (i.e., just before the period). However, as the examples below will illustrate, there are situations where it makes sense to put the parenthetical elsewhere in the sentence, or even to leave information out.

General Guidelines

• The source information required in a parenthetical citation depends (1) upon the source medium (e.g. print, web, DVD) and (2) upon the source’s entry on the Works Cited page.
• Any source information that you provide in-text must correspond to the source information on the Works Cited page. More specifically, whatever signal word or phrase you provide to your readers in the text must be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of the corresponding entry on the Works Cited page.

IN-TEXT CITATIONS: AUTHOR-PAGE STYLE

MLA format follows the author-page method of in-text citation. This means that the author’s last name and the page number(s) from which the quotation or paraphrase is taken must appear in the text, and a complete reference should appear on your Works Cited page. The author’s name may appear either in the sentence itself or in parentheses following the quotation or paraphrase, but the page number(s) should always appear in the parentheses, not in the text of your sentence. For example:

Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (263).

Romantic poetry is characterized by the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (Wordsworth 263).

Wordsworth extensively explored the role of emotion in the creative process (263).

Both citations in the examples above, (263) and (Wordsworth 263), tell readers that the information in the sentence can be located on page 263 of a work by an author named Wordsworth. If readers want more information about this source, they can turn to the Works Cited page, where, under the name of Wordsworth, they would find the following information:

Wordsworth, William. Lyrical Ballads. Oxford UP, 1967.

IN-TEXT CITATIONS FOR PRINT SOURCES WITH KNOWN AUTHOR

For print sources like books, magazines, scholarly journal articles, and newspapers, provide a signal word or phrase (usually the author’s last name) and a page number. If you provide the signal word/phrase in the sentence, you do not need to include it in the parenthetical citation.

Human beings have been described by Kenneth Burke as “symbol-using animals” (3).

Human beings have been described as “symbol-using animals” (Burke 3).

These examples must correspond to an entry that begins with Burke, which will be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of an entry on the Works Cited page:

Burke, Kenneth. Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method. University of California Press, 1966.