Social Work Essays

Role Of Fathers In Lives Of Children
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Introduction: Parents serve an important role in the socialization of children by modeling important values, principles, ideals, attitudes, actions and behaviors that influence the physical, emotional and social de...

Interviews in Social Work
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Introduction: Simulated interviews reflection and approach work Part 1 The purpose of the interview was to explore the service user’s situation and investigate his needs and problems. When reflecting on the i...

Mental Health Social Work
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Introduction: This research paper is going to look at the social work profession and specifically deal with mental health social work. In researching on the subject, I will use books and articles to get secondary i...

Human Growth And Development
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Introduction: Human existence is not static and people are developing constantly (Thompson and Thompson, 2008: 83). For this reason, an understanding of development is central to undertaking professional social...

Personalisation And Its Key Elements
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Introduction: In this easy, I will be discussing personalisation in considering its key elements. Looking at the impact of Fair Access to Care Services (FACS) in meeting service user needs. How it contradict in par...

The Origins Of The Welfare State
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Introduction: The term ‘modern Welfare State’ comes from the Beveridge report of 1941. The words represent that Government provides a minimum level of taxed welfare support for citizens in need. Beverid...

History Of Homelessness In America
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Introduction: Homelessness is a social problem that relates to the condition of people without a regular private house and shelter. People passing through social issue of homelessness are most often not capable to ...

Personal And Professional Values Of People
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Introduction: Values are part of my upbringing and play a big part in my life, as they underpin my thoughts and actions. As a social work student I need to question my personal values, beliefs and ethics as these w...

Human Growth And Development Analysis
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Introduction: As a social care worker I have often learned through trial and error what works in the real world, basing my practice on common-sense and not on abstract theories. But I recognise my views are often ...

Defining And Understanding Resilience
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Introduction: Drawing on material from the module, critically discuss the extent to which theories relating to resilience inform our understanding of an aspect or aspects of contemporary social work. Resilience is ...

The Professional-Client Relationship Analysis
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Introduction: Assignment Question: The professional-client/service-user relationship is expected to be objective and detached (Storr, 1989). Discuss this statement and other potentially stereotypical assertions we ...

Becoming An Efficient Mental Health Counselor
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Introduction: Mental health is a wide subject with many professionals incorporated. Primarily, a mental health professional is charged with the task of offering services which ultimately improve a person’s me...

Domestic Abuse Case Study
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Introduction: Abuse can be defined as “to treat wrongfully or harmfully”. There are different categories of abuse that have been recognized and within our case study there appears to be two distinct for...

A history of social policy changes
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Introduction: With reference to changes in government policy and ideologies of welfare, debate the significance of the shift from Victorian ‘Pauper’ to 21st century ‘service user’ and its im...

Social action plans: drugs and alcohol
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Introduction: Table of Contents Background Objectives Proposed Actions Anticipated Outcomes Key roles and responsibilities Timelines and resources required Key risks Evaluation Method References Background...

Practice Based Self Reflection
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Introduction: During placement, I worked for a charitable, voluntary organisation that supports Asylum Seekers who were destitute. For the purpose of this essay, I will utilise a pseudonym for the client, which wil...

UK Children's Health And Well-being
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Introduction: Drawing on research and theory critically discuss the effects on young children’s health and wellbeing of being poor in a rich country such as the UK. How can such health inequalities be address...

Approaches To Challenging Behaviour
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Introduction: This essay intends to talk about innovative approaches to challenging behaviour in a specific Social Care Setting. The writer will discuss about approaches like counselling, the Low Arousal Approach, ...

Incest Abuse: Effects And Prevention On Children
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Introduction: Incest abuse is an issue that is prevalent among family members including children. There are various short-term and long-term effects that children encounter throughout and after their abusive exper...

Social Service Intervention Of Family Life
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Introduction: Social services play a vital role in the prevention of cruelty to children, and their actions have been controversial in the past and will continue to be in the future. They have an immense amount of ...

Child abuse and neglect
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Introduction: Child Abuse: Real-life vs. A Child Called “It” According to the US Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect, about 4,000,000 children die each year as a result of child abuse and neglect...

The Concept Of Identity In Society
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Introduction: The concept of identity is described in numerous different ways such as the I, Me, personality, self and essence. These offer a starting point for us to attempt to understand and explain who and what ...

Advocacy: People With Intellectual Disabilities
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Introduction: This essay will look at the role of advocacy in relation to representing the views and interests of people with intellectual disabilities attending a day service. It will briefly look at the histori...

The Theory And Practice Of Organisations
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Introduction: Various theories have been significant in forming and recognising organisations. Throughout the twentieth century, the theory and practice of organisations have been modified from a more traditional m...

Abuse To The Elderly In Society
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Introduction: Introduction Abuse to the elderly people has been a common practice in most societies in different parts of the world, there is need to stop this trend in line with the protection of human rights. Res...