SOWK 431 Social Work in Mental Health Sample Papers, Week by Week

Liberty University · BSW · Psychology, counseling and social work · Updated

SOWK 431 reads Corcoran and Walsh's Mental Health in Social Work beside the DSM-5. These samples hold a panic diagnosis together with a caregiver's strengths, follow a third grader through the criteria for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, ask whether a new widower is grieving or depressed, trace a veteran's posttraumatic stress through each symptom cluster, put parents in charge of a teen runner's meals, weigh the limited prosocial emotions label for a boy before juvenile court, assess drinking after a DUI arrest and answer an emergency room that calls a self-harming woman manipulative.

CourseSOWK 431 Social Work in Mental Health (SOWK431)
Credit hours3
ProgramBSW
Length8 Module/Weeks, online
Weeks with written work8 of 8
Samples on this site8 week sample papers
SourcesLiberty's 2026-2027 catalog and the published SOWK 431 course guide
UpdatedOctober 2026

What SOWK 431 covers

Forums fall in Modules/Weeks 1, 3, 5, 6 and 8; each thread runs 300 words or more with two peer-reviewed articles beyond the textbook and a biblical principle, two replies of 50 words or more follow, and the Module/Week 6 forum counts 100 points where the others count 50.

The two case studies of three pages or more come in Modules/Weeks 2 and 4, drawn from the neurodevelopmental and then the anxiety and trauma chapters, and the five-page diagnosis and assessment paper in Module/Week 7 needs three scholarly sources from the past five years; exams of 100 questions land in Modules/Weeks 3, 5 and 8.

Liberty's 2026-2027 catalog describes SOWK 431 Social Work in Mental Health this way:
This course is designed to introduce students to the knowledge, values, and skills necessary for social work practice in mental health settings. Topics will include roles and functions of social workers, diagnoses, and assessment.

SOWK 431 week by week, with the sample for each

WeekWritten work in the course guidePointsSample
Week 1DB Forum 1 (Course Requirements Checklist and Class Introductions also due)50Read the Week 1 sample
Week 2Case Study 1100Read the Week 2 sample
Week 3DB Forum 2 (Exam 1 also due)50Read the Week 3 sample
Week 4Case Study 2100Read the Week 4 sample
Week 5DB Forum 3 (Exam 2 also due)50Read the Week 5 sample
Week 6DB Forum 4100Read the Week 6 sample
Week 7Mental Health Diagnosis and Assessment Paper200Read the Week 7 sample
Week 8DB Forum 5 (Exam 3 also due)50Read the Week 8 sample

Where SOWK 431 papers lose points

SOWK 431 work loses points when a diagnosis is named without counting the criteria the case actually meets, when look-alike conditions are never ruled out, when strengths are skipped because the casebook's risk and resilience lens was ignored, when a recent-source requirement is met with a study that is too old and when a thread on self-harm or eating disorders uses careless or judgmental language.

Using a SOWK 431 sample well

The samples cite the DSM-5, Corcoran and Walsh, Saleebey, Lewis-Fernández and colleagues, Danielson and colleagues, Faraone and colleagues, Wolraich and colleagues, Zisook and colleagues, Wakefield and First, Schnurr and colleagues, the American Psychological Association guideline, Arcelus and colleagues, Lock and colleagues, Frick and colleagues, Sawyer and Borduin, the AUDIT manual, Miller and Rollnick, SAMHSA, Esser and colleagues, Mekonen and colleagues, McPheeters and colleagues, Linehan and colleagues and Zanarini and colleagues.

SOWK 431 questions, answered

What textbooks does SOWK 431 use?

The American Psychiatric Association's DSM-5 and Corcoran and Walsh's Mental Health in Social Work, a casebook pairing diagnosis with strengths-based assessment, read section by section.

How are SOWK 431 exams set up?

Three open-book, open-notes exams in Modules/Weeks 3, 5 and 8, each with 100 multiple-choice and true or false questions and a 90-minute limit.

What does the SOWK 431 diagnosis and assessment paper require?

A research-based paper of at least five pages on mental health assessment and a diagnosis the student chooses, citing three scholarly sources from the last five years plus both textbooks and the Bible.

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