Social Work Essays

Substance Abuse Prevention Program
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2017
Introduction: Substance abuse is a serious problem. It can cause a lot of problems in people’s day to day functioning. Problems of substance abuse can be correlated to family problems, health problems, school...

The role of religion in society | Reflective piece
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2017
Introduction: Growing up in a strong Christian household, my parents always emphasized the importance of helping others. My father was a Methodist Minister at three local churches and encouraged my family to take p...

Personality Of The Crisis Worker
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2017
Introduction: I agree that not everyone is suitable to do crisis intervention work as there are many factors that need to be considered when doing crisis work. The main factor that is essential for any crisis inter...

Personal Characteristics Of Counselors
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2017
Introduction: The objective of this research paper is to discuss the personal attributes that are required in a physically and emotionally healthy counselor. A healthy counselor has a positive effect on his or her ...

Impact of policy on practice
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2017
Introduction: In order to maintain confidentiality the names used in this piece of work have been anonymised. The purpose of this assignment is to demonstrate the knowledge and understanding of the impact that p...

Working Together To Safeguard Children
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2017
Introduction: For the purpose of this assignment I will focus on the publication ‘Working Together to Safeguard Children (2006) and the General Social Care Council’s Code of Practice for Social Care Wor...

HR Management And Workplace Diversity
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Introduction: As you know that diversity in the work force is one of the main object in employment favorable conditions, managing variety has been either ignored, poorly done or received little attention in some ex...

The Social Problem Of Homelessness
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2017
Introduction: In this essay, the social problems I have chosen to write about is Homelessness. I will also be exploring different perspective of Homelessness and the policy responses and the impact it have on the ...

Introduction To Social Work Practice
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Introduction: A referral has been made by the PSNI because they are concerned about two children aged 18 months and 4 years old following their attendance at an incident of domestic violence the previous Saturday e...

Relationship Between Social Policy And Welfare
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Introduction: Social policy may be described in two ways. Primarily, social policy is seen to have a direct impact on individuals and groups of people. Secondly, Social policy is an academic subject to be researche...

Pros and cons of PPPs models
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2017
Introduction: Introduction to Public Private Partnership Public private partnership is a cooperative venture between the public and private sector in which the public and privates sector carry out a particular proj...

Inter-professional working: Child safeguarding
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2017
Introduction: Within the United Kingdom at least one child dies each week resulting from adult cruelty. Statistics from 2003 highlighted that there were over 384,000 children in need in England, and over 69,000 of...

The well-being of looked after children
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2017
Introduction: Wellbeing is a subjective issue, with many attempting to define it. Recent government policies have attempted to create guidelines to improve services; however looked-after children generally have poo...

Support For A Person With Disability
Example essay. Last modified: 17th May 2017
Introduction: The Imbecile Passengers’ Act 1882, have discouraged disabled people from settling in New Zealand. They had required a bond from the person liable for a ship that disembark any person ‘lun...

Personal Experience Of Interprofessional Working
Example essay. Last modified: 17th May 2017
Introduction: In order for an individual to receive holistic, high quality health and social care services, effective communication and multi disciplinary working between professionals is imperative (Ashcroft et ...

Domestic violence: Prevention and treatment
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Introduction: Introduction Domestic violence is a universal phenomenon and more and more governments play importance on it. There are three major types of domestic violence including violent against women, child ab...

The Social Construction Of Older Age
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Introduction: Discuss the social construction of older age and how this should then contribute to anti-discriminatory social work practice How has older age been socially and historically constructed? The biologica...

A Study And Report On Social Work
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Introduction: Social work has always been considered as a difficult and complex occupation, with a complicated and perplexing framework. This is due to its different settings accompanying different tasks. ...

The Complexity Of Society And Diversity
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Introduction: In the words of Thompson we live in a complex society where diversity is the order of the day. This indeed can result into conflict of interest and discrimination. To narrow this down, discrimination ...

Reflective Practice And Risk Essay
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Introduction: The purpose of this essay is to critically evaluate the following statement with reference to my own practice experience in working with risk. “As social workers it is especially critical that w...

People With Substance Abuse Problems
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Introduction: Why People Develop Problems with Substances  Psychological and sociological theories as to why people develop problems with substances and their application vary; some theories relate to genetics oth...

Ethical Standards For Human Services Professionals
Example essay. Last modified: 16th May 2017
Introduction: Human services are developed in anticipation and response of human needs. The profession is characterized by positive reception of human needs taking into account all of their diversity. In context of...

Young People: Leaving the care system
Example essay. Last modified: 16th May 2017
Introduction: Literature reviewed for this study has included articles from academic journals and textbooks, government policy, guidance and briefings and other guidance produced by non-statutory organisations such...

A Family Affected By Elderly Dementia
Example essay. Last modified: 16th May 2017
Introduction: Introduction This is a case study of a gentleman with dementia, a condition defined by the World Health Organisation (WHO, 2003) as a “syndrome caused by a range of illnesses” and which af...

Leading Organisational Equality And Diversity
Example essay. Last modified: 16th May 2017
Introduction: Introduction In this unit we are asked to make a report regarding on the importance of effectively managing equality and diversity and dynamics of leading and managing equality and diversity. In order...