What is Social Work? Introduction Social work is considered a professional activity‚ which deals with assisting whole families or individuals. Social work takes place in various settings such as day centers and hospices. It should be noted that social work is connected with the services that local authorities provide to people in some other countries such as the United States. Four types of social work have been identified‚ and they include structural‚ conventional‚ anti-oppressive‚ and radical
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Social care working with children and families Level 4 Final exam 1. In your own words summarise the major learning points from the whole of the programme with particular reference to : * Principles of social work with children and families * The process of social work with children and families * Working with adults in the family * Immediate protection of the child * Working with the family as a group * Working with children being looked after by the local authority
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students. In building these relationships‚ we as staff have a lot of outside commonalities (i.e. social clubs‚ mutual friends‚ shared interest and come from the same geographical community). In my position‚ I have an advantage over a lot of staff. I come from the community that I work in‚ I have observed many of the children that enroll into my school grow and develop inside and outside of the school setting. Most of the children‚ that attend this educational institute‚ parents have grown up with me
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and lived through I know with all that I am that social work is the greatest equalizer‚ the only profession that offers the truest and most direct interventions for social justice. To choose social work is to choose the path of social justice‚ to be committed to every human having the right to a fulfilling life‚ free of persecution and marginalization‚ and equal access to appropriate resources. In truth‚ I was introduced to the concepts of social injustice before I was ever acquainted with the term
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Communication is a large part of being a social worker whether it is communicating with a client‚ a co-worker‚ or a different agency. The first part of communication is engagement. Finn and Jacobson (2003) explain that engagement "is about being fully present‚ doing the communicative an relationship-building work‚ and becoming more critically aware" (p. 187). You have to engage communication in order for it to start as well as continue. The process of engaging includes listening and reflecting on
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Joseph Walsh (2000) stresses that as social workers the ability to engage in critical thinking is essential for social workers because theory’s and intervention strategies includes a dependence of claims that cannot be proven true or false (p. 10). The ability in thinking critically allows social workers to challenge their decisions in deciding what one or several theories will serve their clients. The need for your own theory for practice (TFP) provides social workers with the framework to predict
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There is a crisis in social work which requires a radical analysis of the contradictions within contemporary social work. The confusion about the role of social work and the declining morale and self-confidence of social workers have resulted in the loss of experienced staff and reluctance of young people to consider a career in social work. This analysis inevitably challenges the present culture of professional training. Proposals to increase the professionalism among social workers have created
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sex worker as a person who works in the sex industry. The term is used in reference to all those in all areas of the sex industry including those who provide direct sexual services as well as the staff of such industries. Others take different perspective they define as Sex work Is any agreement between two or more persons in which the objective is exclusively limited to the sexual act and ends with that and which involve preliminary negotiations for a price”. Sex work is considered as performing
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Alston 2013‚ p. 218) stated that social workers have been seriously absent from areas where policy and practice of environment and climate disaster are determined although social work’s focus on social justice and human rights (Alston 2013). This claim also supported by Zapf (2010 cited in Alston 2010‚ p.219)‚ Zapf argues that social work has not paid attention to the physical environment in the 20th century‚ but importantly focused on the social environment‚ social networks and relations within which
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structural social work is concerned with society hierarchies‚ power imbalance in society and the role the environment plays a role in an individual upbringing. For instance‚ it looks at ways how the rich are viewed powerful and the poor less inferior. The purpose of structural social work approach is to move what from traditional approaches to social work that were based on the medical and disease model that placed the individual as the problem. Additionally‚ structural social work approach “links
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