Social Work Essays

Community Care for Substance Misuse | Evaluation
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Jul 2018
Introduction: From a service users perspective, critically evaluate people with substance misuse who live in supported housing. Introduction This paper discusses some salient aspects of community care of people wi...

Effect of Community Care on Needs of Service Users
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Jul 2018
Introduction: Community Care   Introduction Foster and Roberts (1998, p. i) indicate that there are deficiencies in … the ‘triangular’ relationship between user, carer an community”. They point out that t...

Disabled Children's Access to Childcare Programme
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Jul 2018
Introduction: The Services Available to Disabled Children Introduction Disability is all too often seen as a social problem i.e. it is seen either in terms of personal tragedy or of blame. Disability has been theo...

Assessment Frameworks in Social Work
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Jul 2018
Introduction: Case Study The role of social work intervention is an intensely complicated one in which legislation passed in recent years has had a significant impact. On the one hand this legislation has worked s...

Care Context of Social Worker
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Jul 2018
Introduction: Critically explore the care context in which social work operates, demonstrating an understanding of sociological and social policy concepts, drawing examples from practice. Introduction What constit...

Marxist Framework of Poverty in the UK
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Jul 2018
Introduction: Poverty is generally understood to mean a condition in which people are deprived in some way, such that they lack the basic requirements for sustaining well-being, and ultimately, life. These basic r...

Race Issues in Social Work Practice
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Jul 2018
Introduction: “White Social Workers’ pejorative assessment of black families and the reinforcement of racist stereotypes through their intervention are central to the ‘social working’, i.e....

Strategies for Discrimination in Adult Community Care
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Jul 2018
Introduction: Identify and reflect on potential strategies for addressing oppression and unfair discrimination encountered in community care for adults. Examine the implications of this process for a social worke...

Social Work Law and Organisational Context
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Jul 2018
Introduction: Introduction The law and organization context of social work is extremely important when looking at specific cases and scenarios. The aim of this essay is to examine two specific cases, one involving...

Communication Skills in Social Work | Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Jul 2018
Introduction: Owing to the sensitive nature of services involving children, specific case studies or references to such are not available, for the obvious reasons....

Needs and Rights of the Elderly in Social Care
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Jul 2018
Introduction: How to balance the rights and needs of older people is a complex and important issue as it is an occurrence that will inevitably affects us all at some stage of our lives. It is fundamental to ensure...

Attachment Theory and Community Development Theory
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Jul 2018
Introduction: The Practical and Theoretical Applications of Attachment Theory and Community Development Theory in Social Work Social work theories are extremely helpful in placing certain problem situations in con...

Interprofessional Working in Social Work | Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Jul 2018
Introduction: Critically evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of interprofessional working within social work Introduction During the last thirty years there has been a lot of debate over community care. Policy i...

Task-Centred Anti-Discriminatory Practice in Social Work
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Jul 2018
Introduction: Demonstrate your understanding of the main principles of TASK CENTRED PRACTICE. Consider the strengths and weaknesses of the theory in its application to anti discriminatory practice. Introduction Th...

Continuous Personal Development Criteria
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Jul 2018
Introduction: Continuous professional development (CPD) A case study to examine why we need to have set criteria as to what constitutes continuous professional development. This paper sets out a proposal to establ...

Social Work Management in Youth and Communities
Example essay. Last modified: 13th Jul 2018
Introduction: 1.0: Introduction Youth work in the community, which is mainly performed by specially trained youth workers who work with youth at risk in group homes and community centres demands a high level of ma...

Social Care Assessment for Child With Disabilities
Example essay. Last modified: 6th Jul 2018
Introduction: Social Work with Children and families Response to a letter from the GP of Amita Kaur, the mother of Gurnam. As a student social worker in a local authority Children with Disability team you will und...

Every Child Matters Policy: Outcomes, Aims and Application
Example essay. Last modified: 6th Jul 2018
Introduction: Are the objectives of the “Every Child Matters policy” set by the government being met in actual use and practice? Contents (Jump to) Abstract Chapter 1 – Introduction Chapter 2 –...

Approaches to Child Protection Issues
Example essay. Last modified: 6th Jul 2018
Introduction: ‘What we need in child protection is for workers to take a ‘lighter touch’ approach, more supportive and less intrusive.’ Discuss and evaluate this proposition. Introduction W...

Influences of Organisational Culture on Social Care
Example essay. Last modified: 6th Jul 2018
Introduction: Explain How Different Aspects of Organisational Culture, Including Communication and Leadership, Influence Service Provision in Social Care Organisational culture, a theoretical model of business pra...

Mental Health Care: Legislation, Theories and Issues
Example essay. Last modified: 6th Jul 2018
Introduction: Case Study, Working with Adults assignment (Mental Health). This paper is a discussion of the social work issues in the case of Mary, a 44 year old woman with a history of compulsory admissions under...

Elderly Care: Proposal on Hospital Admittance and Discharge
Example essay. Last modified: 6th Jul 2018
Introduction: A proposal of change to improve the quality of care for vulnerable older people who after being admitted into hospital and on discharge do not have a lot of choice in services that they receive. They...

Managing Multi-Agency Working in Elderly Care
Example essay. Last modified: 6th Jul 2018
Introduction: Managing Collaboration & Multi-Agency Working for older people’s services   Executive summary and introduction Collaboration in the field of both welfare and healthcare, on one level, can be ...

Social Work and Looked After Children | Book Review
Example essay. Last modified: 6th Jul 2018
Introduction: Cocker, C. Allain, L. (2008) Social Work and Looked After Children. Exeter: Learning Matters Ltd. (This is number 8 on the list) The area of looked after children have received considerable attention...

Gender Mainstreaming: Impact and Effects
Example essay. Last modified: 16th Apr 2018
Introduction: The Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995 approved gender mainstreaming as a key strategy for promoting equality between women and men. Many international organizations including the Uni...