999 Search Results for Social What Is Social Work
The social worker indentifies and encourages these strengths. In essence, the Strength's Perspective "…builds on the idea that client groups are untapped resources of energy and momentum in their own lives" (The Strengths Perspective). This is Continue Reading...
Social Justice
Social Work Value/Social Justice- For centuries, philosophers have puzzled the human condition. Since humans have lived together there have been queries about how and why humans acts the way they do, not just individually, but how the Continue Reading...
Social Work Framework
A framework to social work practice is based on a set of beliefs and assumptions about how, when, and under what conditions people and systems change and what a social worker can do to facilitate desired and needed change, such Continue Reading...
Social workers often have commitments to specific policies, laws, or funding of programs that are vital to the population they serve or an issue that they strongly support. Such commitments often lead social workers to become involved in political is Continue Reading...
After all, television attracts people to watch it and perhaps this could provide an interface to get the client and the social caseworker to interact more effectively with each other.
Many caseworkers perceive that the new information technology co Continue Reading...
Social Work Theories
Human behavior is very difficult to predict on a consistent basis. The amount of stimuli that the human mind intakes causes an infinite amount of possibilities that the person can choose from. Luckily for professional social wor Continue Reading...
Social Work
Summary Assessment of My Motivation, Readiness, and Suitability for the Profession of Social Work
Social work is a profession that denotes incredible responsibility to individuals, community, and colleagues. As a personal passion, socia Continue Reading...
Social work played a role in these processes in different ways, based on the existing perception about women and femininity. The profession itself has a range of ideological origins. Some people suggest that it is a continuance of the benevolent an Continue Reading...
Social work acquires its name by virtue of its responsibilities. The profession is entrusted by society to look at how individuals are affected by their environment, how they interact and are affected by their community, and at how individuals are in Continue Reading...
Social Work Field
Perception of Social Work
Social work is a challenging profession that also helps one make a difference in the lives of others (CUW 2011). It aims at improving the overall functioning and well-being of people served. A social work Continue Reading...
Social Work
Exercise
The imaginary recording helped me to examine the language that I use commonly, and listen for embedded biases. I noticed that I assumed that the client could hear me and see me, rather than acknowledge the fact that the client Continue Reading...
Social Work
Comparing micro macro approaches
Social Work from Different Perspectives
In this paper, we will assess the roles and duties which a social worker can provide from an individual and through a community basis to any other individual or c Continue Reading...
Social Work: Working With Substance Abuse Issues
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Individuals in the clinical population of interest
Substance abuse includes use of drugs such as cocaine, heroin, and opioids, and other substances such as alcohol, amphetamines, benzodi Continue Reading...
Social Work With Individuals
Describe the preliminary phase of the counseling work and the beginning (or contracting) phase.
As Shulman demonstrates, each phase of the work of counseling requires its own specific skills and techniques, and all phas Continue Reading...
The ultimate aim is then to cultivate skills that he can use on his own to help him maintain a constructive life and relationships.
What is interesting is that, although we are completely different in terms of culture, values and background, my cli Continue Reading...
social workers find themselves in the position of being primary care coordinators. This is especially true in situations like the Parker family's, in which there are multiple interrelated issues affecting the family and those issues require input fro Continue Reading...
Factors such as previous exposure to/experience with technology, confidence and anxiety when confronted with mathematical issues or propositions, ease of personal interactions, other sources of anxiety or situations that inspire confidence, and a ho Continue Reading...
Social Work
Identify observable characteristics of a life transition in the life of young people leaving care? Significant influencing factors determining the process and. their implication for social work practice?
Characteristics of a life transi Continue Reading...
Social Work History
Like America, Canadian social work has always been about helping the poor and distressed citizens of the nation. The ideas from England had migrated to America and Canada. Both countries are based on migrants from other countries Continue Reading...
Annotated Bibliography
Gayle, V., Berridge, D., & Davies, R. 2002. Young people's entry into higher education: Quantifying influential factors. Oxford Review of Education, 28(1), 5-20.
This article addresses the factors that are most prevalen Continue Reading...
Addams included a large amount of environmental reforms in her program for Hull House. One of the most prominent incorporated her labors to address the unhealthful heaps of garbage in immigrant areas because of a lack of public interest. The mayor Continue Reading...
Social work is a broad field that encompasses a wide range of practices and areas of specialization. Regardless of the diversity within the profession, social workers help place individual and community-level issues within a greater context. Therefor Continue Reading...
Social Work
Critical thinking, a higher order of thinking about and dealing with issues, is quite relevant in many contemporary disciplines, particularly social work. It is a way of looking at information, of processing that information in an analyt Continue Reading...
This will make the living environment of the child unsafe (King).
The child's preference for a particular parent or another person will be heard by Alaskan courts in granting custody (King, 2012). It is usually the parents with whom the child has b Continue Reading...
I told her that there had been three caseworkers since I had been in foster care this time, but none of them had ever gone to visit my mom. She had been alone in all of this. It wasn't fair for her.
The third caseworker visited my mom and saw how Continue Reading...
Social Work
Safety in Social Work Practice
Social work: Ethics and risks
Risks to confidentiality: Online counseling
Although confidentiality issues can arise in any therapeutic context, in the relatively impersonal format of online counseling, t Continue Reading...
There are many people who have no health insurance, and no resources to get the services they need. We have seen an increase in the incidences of violence in our lives, coming close to home in our schools and even our churches. I hope to gain the t Continue Reading...
Social Work - Literature Review
A great deal of information and misinformation is available to adolescents today about sexual issues. The media, peers, parents, and schools are some of the places teenagers will obtain information about sex, however Continue Reading...
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Evaluation of an Early Interview
The interview conducted was with a colleague of mine who I met in school a little while back. She comes from a Persian family, as her parents immigrated to the United States from Iran in the late 1970s. Continue Reading...
This in turn generates a kind of societal morality. As a consequence, social order becomes an incorporated trait of everyday life. According to the theory, what people see as standards are indirect behavioral rules. Infringements of the standard lea Continue Reading...
Therefore, today's society in the United States is diverse, which is something a social worker needs to understand and know how to deal with each diverse group. Furthermore, through research, it has been discovered most ethnic groups that live in th Continue Reading...
Social Work
Roger Plachy's 1986 book When I Lead, Why Don't They Follow? distinguishes the difference between a manager and a leader. The book also offers specific tools and techniques to improve effectiveness at being both a manager and a leader. A Continue Reading...
Social Work
Under the California Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Law, counselors, teachers, and other professionals are legally obliged to report suspected abuse or neglect. The legal obligation to report instances of child abuse or neglect to a l Continue Reading...
Cradock's 2004 study of a correlation between population categories and child abuse lead to the development of an assessment tool that allowed social workers to determine when children were at risk for child abuse and when to intervene and what acti Continue Reading...
Grohol J. (2005). Attachment Theory. Psych Central. Retrieved October 7, 2005 from the World Wide Web: http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/Attachment_theory
Psych Central is a web site which provides free mental health, support and psychology informa Continue Reading...
While he supported me in my endeavors, he raised many questions, >Why do you want to enter social work? How do you think you are going to provide for your family and the lifestyle you are accustomed to?" Deferring to socialization pressures that sti Continue Reading...
(Huff, Social Work, 2000, Chapter 1, p.3)
Private efforts were not enough to treat the ills caused by the unchecked capitalism of the Gilded Age, however, an age that brought tremendous wealth to some Americans and tremendous poverty to others. Dur Continue Reading...
She stated that she frequently refers to Social Work Codes of Ethics and Values. When HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) came into effect, protections regarding the privacy of individuals became more stringent under law rega Continue Reading...
By improving their self knowledge, leaders can change and develop as leaders of people. Clinical supervision for leaders is sometimes called administrative clinical supervision. This is managerial clinical supervision with a focus on problems relate Continue Reading...