999 Search Results for Social Work Journals
The death of elderly individuals takes place in different circumstances and settings such as painless death at home or painful death in a healthcare facility. Social workers have an important role in planning end-of-life care as part of providing ess Continue Reading...
Minimizing Poverty Is a Government Initiative
The Progressive Era
Poverty reduction has remained a central debate in periodical democratic societies. Schemes have been established to enable citizens to be economically viable either at paid-employme Continue Reading...
human behavior to understand the range of behaviors that people show under the influence of emotions, parenting, culture, attitudes, values, ethics, force and genetics. It is understood through this research how the human behavior can be usual or un Continue Reading...
CANADA'S ABORIGINAL PEOPLE
Suicide amongst Canada's Aboriginal People
Suicide amongst Canada's Aboriginal People
The aboriginal people of Canada have faced injustices perpetrated through colonization, cultural prejudice, and forced assimilation am Continue Reading...
Racial Discrimination: How it Affects the People of South Africa and Its Impact on the Field of Social Work
Racial discrimination has for long been a part of the South African history. It is the country of Apartheid. Apartheid was the official polic Continue Reading...
Practice
What examples of the history of a particular social problem or construct could you use to illustrate the importance of an historical perspective to social work practice?
The prevalence of false confessions and coerced guilty pleas has rec Continue Reading...
These results have suggested that the blamer softening event has achieved its goal of creating more empathy, acceptance, and understanding in spouses. Furthermore, it has found to be significantly relevant in the complete treatment of outcomes coupl Continue Reading...
Child Demographics
CHILD WELFARE IN REVIEW
Financial Status of Children in Welfare - a review conducted in 9 trials on 2,000 participants to determine if financial support to poor families would improve children's health and welfare did not yield s Continue Reading...
GORDON'S ASSIMILATION THEORY
SOCIAL WORK
Overview of the theory
Originator and brief history of the theory; historical context, Underlying assumptions
Adopting a seven-pronged framework, Milton Gordon (1964) bridged the gap between enculturation Continue Reading...
Social Work ClinicalA. What have been some challenges with working within the interprofessional team?Interprofessional teams are becoming increasingly popular in social work clinical practice due to client needs complex and diverse nature. Such teams Continue Reading...
Self and Others
The term engagement has been defined as being actively involved in, a part of. When applied in a social work context, the same definition holds true. For a client to be engaged it means they must be actively involved in and a part o Continue Reading...
Such parent is expected to show higher degree of neglect and rejection.
Research conducted by Jackson et al. (1997) have shown that parenting styles that are not balanced are expected to enhance the chances of alcoholism in the child. Where authori Continue Reading...
The extreme power of this new cultural tool is the very nature -- it depends on nothing but an electronic connection. it, like many things in the modern world, is instantaneous, satisfying the 21st century need to have both dependence and independen Continue Reading...
As the proceedings of the past few years have shown, these labors, regrettably, have not prevented companies from engaging in unethical behaviors that lead to larger corporate disgraces. As a result there is augmented force to make accessible more s Continue Reading...
UK Mental Health Policy
Mental healthcare service delivery in the UK has been subjected to a series of significant imperative policy in the last few decades, and number of people suffering from mental illness is on the increase. Recent statistics re Continue Reading...
As the president works to pass what is most assuredly his most important legislative package to date, he is struggling against a great wall of opposition which appears to be driven by a philosophical aversion to public funding of a deeply privatize Continue Reading...
articles seem to be saying same thing or do they contradict each other? Is the tone similar in each article, meaning can you tell what the researchers feel about the subject? Do they support the same idea, did they hypothesize similar ideas?
The fo Continue Reading...
Moreover, it is unclear whether Jim has attempted to reestablish any meaningful contact with his children; rather, his entire focus has been on becoming a better person. While there is certainly nothing wrong with that goal in and of itself (it is, Continue Reading...
Administration & Policy Development
The author of this report is to engage in an assessment task that centers on human services and social workers in a clinical setting. The author of this report shall be focusing on the social work department i Continue Reading...
Therefore, one cannot conclude whether a trauma-centered, or present-centered approach is better for the treatment of substance abuse using group therapy.
Implications for Social Work
Studies regarding group therapy in veterans with substance abus Continue Reading...
Carl Rogers was probably the most important psychologist and psychotherapist of the 20th Century apart from Sigmund Freud, and his humanistic, person-centered approach has been applied to many fields outside of psychology, such as education, business Continue Reading...
Hypothetical Case Study
Taking School Seriously
As a social worker, it is never easy to remove a child from their home. This is especially true when the child is going to be placed into a group home setting. In a group home, children are left to op Continue Reading...
NASW
Social Work and Cultural Competence
Comment by Sabina:
Social Work and Cultural Competence
As a social worker I have many ethical responsibilities to the community in which I will be serving. It is important for me to understand the ethical Continue Reading...
This "complex bureaucracy" may at least partially explain the controversy that surrounds many Veterans Hospitals after accusations of poor conditions and health care have tarnished the VA's image during the past year. Two Washington Post reporters w Continue Reading...
Cheesman (2002) conducted a study on Karen identity in the Union of Myanmar with regards to historical and social conditions. The study found that Karen identity is a relatively difficult identity because individuals from this ethnic background do no Continue Reading...
Lack of Mental Treatment and Support
Introduction and Overview
Emergency departments (EDs) can play a major role in reducing the risk and occurrence of suicide, self-harm and harm caused to others by taking steps to create a safety plan for the patie Continue Reading...
Josie's case represents the complexities of youth and family advocacy. Being biracial presents additional advocacy issues. Moreover, Josie has admitted to suicidal ideation. It is important to take into account the situational, environmental, and str Continue Reading...
Cultural identity formation theories reveal the intersections between race, class, gender, sexuality, status, self-concept, and power. Applying critical race theory and racial identity development models to social work can prove tremendously helpful Continue Reading...
ACORN
a) Identify two major pieces of social work legislation that was passed between the New Deal Era and the War on Poverty then identify the strengths and weaknesses of the legislation.
In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) introduced the New Dea Continue Reading...
Infants that are securely attached, then, expect their figures of attachment to be readily available and are quickly and easily comforted if upset. Conversely, those infants that are not securely attached do not share this level of expectation. Amon Continue Reading...
Business Model Canvas
Organizational growth is a dream for all organizations. The growth is achievable with the adoption of different strategies such as investing heavily in the development of a product to create better offerings, to develop deep co Continue Reading...
Corporate Social Responsibility Issues
Corporate responsibility in matters of social significance has taken a very public position over the past few years, due in large part to the major scandals and corruption related to Enron and other corporation Continue Reading...
F-ratio is designed in such a way that there is no individual difference with reference to contribution between denominator and numerator. The numerator of F-ratio measures the means difference that exists between one treatment to the other and the Continue Reading...
Unlike hardcore altruism, no assumption of relatedness is necessary. Soft-core altruism is directed beyond kin as a simple exchange of favors. (Gachter & Falk, 2002, pp1-25) Unlike hardcore altruism, the soft-core variety is less firmly triggere Continue Reading...
Parenting Education for Teen Mothers
If a community values its children, it must cherish their parents. (John Bowlby)
Rationale of intervention population
Group based intervention programs
Multi-purpose programs
Teen Mother Empowerment Program S Continue Reading...
Yet another piece of legislation ("The Health and Disability Services Act of 1993") provides that the employment needs of the Maori should be taken into consideration, but no mention of the Treaty of Waitangi. Bennett points to the New Zealand Gove Continue Reading...
180). Effectively, social constructivism is helping "reconstruct" the field of psychology (Bohan, 1990, p. 86). In that, it seems the future of social constructionism can only grow and alter, just as the field of psychology has grown and altered sin Continue Reading...
life we are always faced with situations where the rights on one individual overlap those of another, causing a legal conflict that is often decided upon in the court of law. In many cases, these are private rights, but we are sometimes in a situati Continue Reading...
Prevalence of Depression in Massachusetts
Prospectus: Depression Among Older Immigrant African Women in Metro West Massachusetts
Abstract
In West Massachusetts United States, the most common health disorders are anxiety and depression. These health d Continue Reading...