1. As a future professional, what will you do to learn more about the role of the church strengths and weaknesses from an African American culturally perspective and what would you do to enhance your strategies for effective and competent intervention with black families for whom faith is a core value. You may provide an example and explain your perception about your strategies.

1. As a future social work practitioner, how would you work with grandparents caregivers who are often confused and frustrated when trying to navigate various systems to ensure that they are awareness of available resources and have access to these resources. How can you identify, promote, coordinate, and disseminate information to help grandparents caregivers with their concerns about accessing resources and well-being of the children.

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FROM THE BOOK

1. To what degree does this faith community represent physical and emotional safe space for your consultant and how might you build on this?

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1. How do the beliefs and practices of the faith inform your consultantàconstruction of self in relation to the larger society? For example, in contrast to the church, is formal education denigrated, and, if so, what are implications for educational goal setting? If women play important leadership roles, how can you draw on this to enhance the self-esteem of a female consultant? If, like the church, his or her faith community represents both a culturally affirming and world-rejecting community, what additional social skills might your consultant need to function in the larger world? How might millenarian anticipation impact long-term goal setting?

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