The origins of social welfare

23 Mar 2015 04 May 2017

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Historically, it is hard to trace the origins of social welfare or social policy in Britain. There is a debate when exactly the foundations of the welfare state were laid. Slack suggested that the welfare state was established by the end of the eighteenth century. On the other hand Roberts argued that the basis of the welfare state was laid between 1833 and 1854. However, most commentators ...

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Causes, Effects And Implications Of Sibling Incest

23 Mar 2015 04 May 2017

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This literature review focuses on research that is related to sibling incest and discusses the causes, effects and implications that sibling incest has on the victim, perpetrator and the family. It focuses on the types of research that is conducted and the weaknesses and strengths of these studies. It also discusses further implications and suggestions for future research in regards to sibling incest. It is meant as ...

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The Elderly And Mental Health

23 Mar 2015 04 May 2017

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This assignment will look issues around older people's mental health, in particular, dementia and abuse; this will include demographics of older people, statistics, the history, definitions and causes of dementia, and finally the lack of legislation to protect vulnerable people from harm and the implications for social work practice. The population surge at the end of world war 2 has gave rise to an unprecedented population explosion ...

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Culturally Competent Assessments Of Children In Need

23 Mar 2015 04 May 2017

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This article critically analyses 'cultural competence' as a theoretical construct and explores the need for a framework that will assist social workers to carry out culturally competent assessments of children in need and their families. It is argued that the necessary components of a framework for practice in this area are a holistic definition of culture, an ethical approach to difference, self-awareness, an awareness of power relations, ...

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The Effects Of Divorce On Children

23 Mar 2015 03 May 2017

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The term divorce is defined by Merriam Webster Langenscheidt's Pocket Dictionary as an act or instance of legally dissolving a marriage. It is usually between a man and a woman. However recent evolution and other social constructs have tended to see divorce as a legal dissolution between partners, for example, a marriage between gay or lesbian partners. The latter statement goes to explain the fact that some ...

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The Role Of Multidisciplinary Working

23 Mar 2015 03 May 2017

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This essay will relate to an observation of professional social work practice in a Crisis Centre, for people with mental health issues who require support, and short-term accommodation, with the goal of returning home or to a new environment. This essay will focus upon the role of multi disciplinary collaboration regarding the Crisis Centre staff, and Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team (CRHTT), and to discuss why collaboration ...

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The Issues Regarding Child Sexual Abuse

23 Mar 2015 03 May 2017

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For my final year I have been assigned to produce a dissertation on a topic of my own interest. During my second year of this course I was at a placement in a Supported Housing organisation. Whilst working there I came across a lot of child abuse issues, in particular child sexual abuse and this is where my interest in seeking more knowledge about the subject came ...

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Analysing Negative Attitudes Towards Mental Illness

23 Mar 2015 03 May 2017

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This chapter will examine the term stigma and discuss the negative attitudes that the public hold towards mental health and mental illness and suggest why they may have adopted these views and attitudes. It will also address the media's role in portraying these views and sustaining these attitudes towards mental illness. An enormous number of individuals are affected by mental illness worldwide: the World Health Organization (WHO) ...

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Attachment Theory And Risk Assessment

23 Mar 2015 03 May 2017

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Linking Theory, Research, and Practice: Risk-Assessments and Child Protection. The primary goal of this paper was to broaden my knowledge and understanding around the theory, research, policies, and procedures guiding risk-assessment decision making within child protection service. Individuals and group identified as at-risk-, for one or more myriad reasons have been the broad focus of a decade s worth of academic and professional purists. Although the initial ...

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Intervention: Drug Abuse Among Adolescents

23 Mar 2015 03 May 2017

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This paper states the definition and main risk factors of drug abuse at first. Then, it reviews the three models for drug abuse prevention, including information model, affective model and social influence model. It also mentioned chemical treatments and psychological treatments of drug abuse. There are some comments on the psychological treatments. The author brings up some prevention and intervention plans of adolescents' drug abuse in the ...

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The Concept Of Work Life Balance

23 Mar 2015 03 May 2017

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Abstract The concept of work-life balance has now become centre of attention for almost all companies, political institutions, research institutions, families, individuals and trade unions at both national and international level. Work life balance is an important topic in human resource management that means to combine work and life in a way, that both are achievable. Work life balance is generally related to role overload, time management, ...

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Mental Health Illness: Good Social Work Practice

23 Mar 2015 03 May 2017

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Good Social Work Practice with Adolescents in the Field of MentalHealth Social work's role as the dominant provider of mental healthservices is rooted in history and well-established in the contemporary socialservices landscape. It has been estimated that social workers invest more thanhalf their time in dealing with mental health issues (Howard et al., 1996).Constituting over sixty percent of the mental health workforce, social workersprovide more community-based mental ...

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Effective Social Work Approaches

23 Mar 2015 03 May 2017

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To practice without a theory is to sail an uncharted sea; theory without practice is not to set sail at all Susser 1968 cited in Lishman, 2005 pg 87. Therefore, this essay uses the task centred approach and the solution focused therapy to explain what is happening in the Banks family and how it affects Mark. It will predict Mark's future behaviour and it will suggest a ...

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Common Assessment Framework In Childrens Services

23 Mar 2015 03 May 2017

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Why was the Common Assessment Framework introduced in Childrens Services, what does it attempt to achieve and how successful is it in doing this? This essay will discuss why Common Assessment Framework was introduced to Children's Services, what it attempts to achieve and whether or not it has been successful, the concept behind it and briefly, the difficulties in working with other health professionals to get the ...

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Dispersal Policy Of Asylum Seekers And Refugees

23 Mar 2015 03 May 2017

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The essay will look at dispersal policy; a brief background and description of the dispersal policy. Critically analysing the policy in relation to asylum seekers, elaborate the role of NASS and arguments on welfare and asylum seekers in relation to Britain's changing laws of seeking asylum. Outline how ideologies have used those policies and the impact they have caused. Critique the policy; explain the Implications and challenges ...

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Exploring The Practice Of Supervision

23 Mar 2015 03 May 2017

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Supervision is the practice where a counsellor can talk to a professional who is trained to identify any psychological or behavioural changes in the counsellor that could be due to an inability to cope with issues presented by clients. A supervisor is also responsible for challenging practices and procedures, developing improved or different techniques, and informing clients of alternative theories and/or new practices, as well as industry ...

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Effectiveness Of The Early Intervention Approach

23 Mar 2015 03 May 2017

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Within this essay I am not going to list the reasons to believe in the effectiveness of the early intervention approach. The usefulness of early intervention itself is not in dispute. I will, however, be discussing the strengths and weaknesses of different types of early intervention. I will discuss the reasons to believe that some intervention schemes are better than others concerning ways to handle social issues. ...

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The Human Services Worker

23 Mar 2015 02 May 2017

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Human Services Worker is a generic term for people who hold professional and paraprofessional jobs in such divers settings as group homes and hallway houses; correctional, mental retardation, and community mental health centers; family, child, and youth service agencies, and programs concerned with alcoholism, drug abuse, family violence, and aging (Harris, Maloney, and Rother, pg. 205). Human services have helped lots of people to manage their life ...

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The Equal Opportunity Policy

23 Mar 2015 02 May 2017

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Equality of Opportunity is put into place to safeguard everyone. An important aspect of the Equal Opportunity Policy is that it protects vulnerable adults in care. The Equal Opportunity Policy specifies that all clients will be given equal and impartial treatment regardless of their gender, age, disability, ethnic origin and race. It is important that all employees working within the care field comply with the Equal Opportunities ...

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Psychological Impact Of Disability On The Family

23 Mar 2015 02 May 2017

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The birth of a child is usually anticipated with so much expectations and excitement of a very happy and successful future not only for the child but also for the family at large. However, this excited might be muted by the birth of an infant with any kind of disability. It does not matter whether the handicap is retardation, blindness or physical abnormality. Families with members with ...

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The Human Growth And Development Assignment

23 Mar 2015 02 May 2017

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The aim of this essay is to use knowledge of human growth and development to critically discuss the theories a social worker might employ to assess a family and better understand their behaviour. A family profile will be provided and two family members selected for further discussion and the application of appropriate theories. These theories will be critiqued in terms of how they might assist social workers ...

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The Synopsis Of Work Life Balance

23 Mar 2015 02 May 2017

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A literature review is a critical and in depth evaluation of previous research in a particular area. It allows anyone reading the paper to establish why you are pursuing this particular research program. The role of a literature review is to discover answers to a research problem. Machi & Mc Evoy (2008 pp.3) explain an advance literature review as "the foundation for identifying a problem that demands ...

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Effective Communication Is An Issue

23 Mar 2015 02 May 2017

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Social work is a professional and academic discipline that pursues to progress the quality of life and wellbeing of an individual, group, or community by intervening through research, policy, community organizing, direct practice, and coaching on behalf of those distressed with poverty or any real or perceived social injustices and violations of their human rights (Cavanagh & Lane, 2012). To make all this happen, social workers have ...

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Advantages And Disadvantages Of Introducing Business Models

23 Mar 2015 02 May 2017

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A: Public Private Partnership is known worldwide as an important source of spurring clannish assets in stock building and improving public service delivery. As we move on with this business, it gets important to investigate objectives for PPP in visit to understand the risks and responsibilities the government would hit to adopt in visit to make PPPs growth. As we explore PPP we see two types of ...

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Causes And Effects Of Child Abuse

23 Mar 2015 01 May 2017

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Child abuse remains a significant problem around the world. The reasons for child abuse are diverse and tend to be different from a situation to another. It is found that children of different disabilities such as hearing, learning and visual impairment are at higher risk of being abused especially from their care givers. Another cause is Low socio-economic status and high social stress which lead some people ...

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Exploring the issue of child poverty

23 Mar 2015 01 May 2017

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There are two terms of poverty 'absolute' and 'relative'. Absolute refers to the amount of basics that we need to survive and relative is the standards of living in a society at any particular time (Kelly & McKendrick 2007). This essay aims to discuss the impact of poverty on community and social care, the influences it has on health across the lifespan, the relevance to nursing practice, ...

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Ecological Theory And Child Development

23 Mar 2015 01 May 2017

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'Analyse the contribution of Ecological theory to our understanding of typical and atypical child development, and discuss this model in relation to the factors and possible interventions for child abuse' 'The importance of insight regarding the parent/child bond has always been a component of social services custom, but the significance has not always been indentified of the interaction that the environment plays on a parents ability to ...

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Misuse Of Drugs And Alcohol: Effect on Children

23 Mar 2015 01 May 2017

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This research proposal concerns the investigation and analysis of the impact of parental misuse of alcohol on children. The perceptions of policy makers and members of society in the UK have for many years acknowledged the negative consequences of excessive alcohol consumption on health, behaviour and public safety. Such perceptions have in turn resulted in curbs on sale of alcohol to young people and to restrictions on ...

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Network Rail has a key objective to Earn and Retain a Mandate

23 Mar 2015 01 May 2017

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Using PESTLE/Porter's 5 Forces / Scenario Modelling or any other relevant identify the key strategic Macro challenges the Company faces. Using Financial Analysis / Marketing Mix / Core Competencies / Balanced Scorecard or any other relevant tools, scan Network Rail's Internal / Micro Environment to inentify the key Micro challenges the Company faces. Pull your conclusions regarding parts 1 and 2 together in the form of a ...

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Older People People With Dementia

23 Mar 2015 28 Apr 2017

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Dementia is a general term for a decline in mental ability severe enough to interfere with daily life. Memory loss is an example. Alzheimer's is the most common type of dementia. Dementia is not a specific disease. It's an overall term that describes a wide range of symptoms associated with a decline in memory or other thinking skills severe enough to reduce a person's ability to perform ...

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Situation Of Persons With Disabilities In Pakistan

23 Mar 2015 28 Apr 2017

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Although there is no widely accepted definition of persons with disabilities, twodefinitions can be found in the National Policy for Special Education in Pakistan: "Disability" means the lack of ability to perform an activity in a manner that is considered to be normal. A person with disabilities means a person who, on account of injury, disease, or congenital deformity, is handicapped in undertaking any gainful profession or ...

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Child And Youth Care Work

23 Mar 2015 28 Apr 2017

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Introduction The profession of child and youth care requires a great amount of effort, determination and skill. Within the field, child and youth care workers are expected to acquire and uphold a trusting bond with the youth involved (Quinn, 2004: 18). Although the main aim of the child and youth care worker is to care for, love, and protect the child, this may prove difficult in many ...

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Review of a qualitative research article

23 Mar 2015 28 Apr 2017

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This essay is a review of a research article of how Local Authority Social workers make decisions when they are considering referrals of children. The title of the study is "Threshold Decisions: How Social Workers Prioritize Referrals of Child Concern" by Dendy Platt (2008). I would attempt to critically appraise this Qualitative journal article based on essential elements of the research which include the Title, Abstract, Introduction, ...

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Social Worker Within The Welsh Context

23 Mar 2015 27 Apr 2017

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Social work is a profession established to promote and secure the wellbeing of families, children, adults and the surrounding communities. Social work in Wales is regulated under the guidance and legislation of the Care council for Wales. This guidance is governed by a code of practice which all Social workers are to adhere too. Anyone choosing to use the title 'social worker' is required to be registered ...

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Faced By Single Parents

23 Mar 2015 27 Apr 2017

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Different aspects of Chinese culture are manipulated to contribute to the difficult situation of single parent families; whereby, traditional family values and family relationships are both an asset and liability to single parent families. In this case, the parental role identity need to be flexible rather than traditional gendered role identity need to be facilitate in the adjustment of divorced parents. For the welfare services to be ...

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Risk Assessment And Decision Making Of Adult Protection

23 Mar 2015 27 Apr 2017

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This essay gives an overview of the risk assessment and decision making in adult protection. The main purpose of this essay is to bring a more clear concept of risk; meaning of risk assessment and risk management decision making in adult protection and further it will examine existing based on upon research and evidence finally, it will critically analyse national and local reports which are related to ...

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Pre Birth Assessment Reflective Analytical Study

23 Mar 2015 27 Apr 2017

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I was requested to complete a Pre-Birth Assessment with regards to Case BB. The referral was made by the Community Midwife to the Children and Families Area Team where I was on my placement. The Community Midwife's concerns were BB's age, she already had a child who was under one year, her partner was in prison and the Midwife was further concerned about BB's lack of engagement ...

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The History Of Community Mobilization

23 Mar 2015 27 Apr 2017

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Introduction: - The term community has various meaning. We can define community is a place where people living in the particular geographical area and they shares their common values, interests and they follows a particular way of living. The term community may refer to the national community or international community. In biology a community is a group of interacting people sharing a populated environment. Apart from a ...

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About The Social Work Career

23 Mar 2015 27 Apr 2017

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The social work profession promotes social change, problem solving in human relationships and the empowerment and liberation of people to enhance well-being. Utilising theories of human behaviour and social systems, social work intervenes at the points where people interact with their environments. Principles of human rights and social justice are fundamental to social work. COMMENTARY Social work in its various forms addresses the multiple, complex transactions between ...

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The Causes And Effects Of Child Abuse

23 Mar 2015 27 Apr 2017

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In a civilized society one would expect the occurrence of child abuse to be nearly non-existent, however the statistics do not support this belief. This paper defined what child abuse is .It also revised the short term and long-term effects of this abuse and the resulting mental, physical and societal issues that arise from early abuse and continue on throughout their childhood. It will bring up the ...

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Lone Parents And Poverty

23 Mar 2015 27 Apr 2017

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I have chosen to focus my essay on lone parents and poverty. Lone parents are a growing group in Great Britain and elsewhere, and one with high rates of poverty and receipt of social assistance. This paper will analyse the current Government's policy objectives and their vision that it is right to expect people to make every effort to get themselves ready for work, as well as ...

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Compare And Contrast Theory With Practice

23 Mar 2015 27 Apr 2017

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Case management is the process of helping patients with lives that are not productive or satisfactory as a result of a number of problems among them drug and substance abuse. Case management in social work is whereby a social worker professionally assesses the needs of the client and their respective families (Ballew & Mink 1997). The social worker then coordinates, monitors, evaluates, arranges and advocates an effective ...

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Professional Identity Of Mental Counselor

23 Mar 2015 27 Apr 2017

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I will develop my professional identity as a mental counselor in many ways that will benefit the mental health profession and myself. To aid me in this endeavor, I will seek guidance from the American Counseling Association's (ACA) Code of Ethics for mental health counselors and work diligently to apply their five ethical principles. These five principles are: Beneficence, Nonmaleficence, Autonomy, Justice, and Fidelity (American Counseling Association, ...

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Examining The Theories For Effective Practice

23 Mar 2015 27 Apr 2017

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My choice to apply these two theories to the case scenario of Ms Joanna is based on the structure of these methods. Payne (2005, p 97) cites that Both crisis intervention and task-centred practice reflect a contemporary trend towards brief, focused and structured theories that deal with immediate, practical problems". Because of the recent diagnosis of breast cancer, Joanna is faced with some difficult decisions concerning her ...

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Analysing Homelessness In Australia

23 Mar 2015 25 Apr 2017

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Over the past few decades, mechanisms of social exclusion and social control have made it increasingly hard for Australia's homeless. Many texts discuss the issue of defining homelessness and it is now widely accepted there are several different kinds. Here, I will be talking primarily about Primary homelessness, which is also known as 'sleeping rough', where people sleep in cars, parks or other public spaces (Which Way ...

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The Heart Of Social Work

23 Mar 2015 25 Apr 2017

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The origins of professionalization of social work date back to post Civil War era and the emergence of two opposing approaches to dealing with the needs and struggles of society: Charity Organization Societies (COS) and Social Reform. Charity Organization Societies (COS) - later developed into casework - offered a more individual approach, and Social Reform, represented by the Settlement House movement, which focused on addressing the societal ...

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Social Work In Criminal Justice

23 Mar 2015 25 Apr 2017

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This module will address the role of social work in the criminal justice context. This context includes a range of agencies working with adults and young persons who are involved in offending and agencies who work with the victims of crime. Social Work within the criminal justice context can therefore involve direct work with people who have offended, for example working as a Probation Officer or ...

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Equal opportunities and preventing discrimination

23 Mar 2015 25 Apr 2017

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The aim of this assignment is to focus on equal opportunities and the laws set up to protect people from discrimination on the basis of their gender, race, age and disability by providing a framework for the most vulnerable groups in society who, without legislation may feel their rights have been infringed. Prejudice and stereotyping is something we are all guilty of. From our own life experiences, ...

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Legal And Ethical Practice For Learning Disability

23 Mar 2015 25 Apr 2017

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The drive towards the provision of 'person-centred' services for people with learning disabilities, has acquired a vast amount of policy maker's attention in the United Kingdom (Cambridge, 2008). Valuing People (UK Department of Health, 2001) has been the most fundamental government paper that has prompted a change in the way current health and social care services operate. Collaboration can be seen as an important facilitator in delivering ...

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Social Policies Poverty And Social Exclusion

23 Mar 2015 25 Apr 2017

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This essay will discuss 'Poverty and social exclusion'. There will be a brief explanation of the terms that will be used throughout the essay. As we know, there are many writers who express their views; therefore references will be used to explore different writers' understanding on certain subjects. Firstly it will focus on poverty and discuss different meanings in relation to poverty. Then secondly, it will look ...

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The Child Protection Process

23 Mar 2015 25 Apr 2017

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The following are the skills needed in order to work with parents and with the family as a whole: ability to work in partnership with parents; ability to be honest and open even when the information you have to share is unpleasant or painful; ability to communicate with adults; ability to negotiate; ability to provide counselling, warmth, empathy, understanding; ability to tolerate people's pain and anger; ability ...

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Autism spectrum disorder

23 Mar 2015 25 Apr 2017

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Autism spectrum disorder Introduction Autism is an overall term which is used to describe a group of complicated brain developmental disorder which is also called pervasive developmental disorder. There are other pervasive developmental disorders which include pervasive developmental disorder which is not yet specified, Aspernger's syndrome, Rett syndrome, and childhood disintegrative disorder. This group of disorders is collectively referred to as Autism spectrum disorders (Morgan, Jones & ...

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Working Mother Base On Attachment Theory

23 Mar 2015 25 Apr 2017

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There are increasing number of women continue their careers after given birth to their childs. They are regarded as "working mothers", whom are facing many difficulties to keep balance between the work and the family. This phenomenon led to many studies about the effect of maternal employment base on a secure mother-infant attachment.This paper raise the question: many mothers are often confronted with the dilemma of choosing ...

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Inquiry Into The Death Of David Bennett

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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This essay aims to critically analyse the Sir John Blofeld inquiry report into the death of David Bennett in 1998, through the theme of institutional racism. In order to achieve this, I will give a brief background to the inquiry chaired by Blofeld in 2001. This will enable me to reflect upon the various aspects of this particular case and build a context for the inquiry. I ...

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The Eclectic And Reflective Nature

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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The outline of the case including factors in connection with history, presentation and the need for a revised therapeutic approach in many ways mirrors the clinical case evaluation detailed by Sherry (2006) in the application of 'an Attachment Theory Approach to the Short-Term Treatment of A Woman With Borderline Personality Disorder and Comorbid Diagnoses'. This study highlights the difficult support/treatment pathway of borderline personality disorder (BPD) which ...

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Define And Discuss Anti Oppressive Practice

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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Professionals get involved in peoples to protect then and promote social justice , yet oppress them for example, by making decisions for them or the structure of an organisation can oppress on individual. Oppression is: The central circle P represents the personal, psychological, practice and prejudice. Here we are considering the individual's thoughts, feelings and actions. The way in which each practitioner interacts with service user and ...

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Emotional Skills In Social Work Practice

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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Social Work Practice, a powerful modern day skill for social empowerment of the disadvantaged and excluded segments of society, is an occupation of enormous scope and an immensely stressful activity (Burgess & Taylor, 2004). Educated and trained in social work theory and practice, these practitioners are required to constantly interact, assess and understand situations, as well engage in various actions aimed at providing appropriate relief and succour ...

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Roles Of The Supervisor | Essay

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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A supervisor is someone who guides and oversees the work or activities of a student or another counselor. The three major goals of a supervisor include enhancing the skills and knowledge of professional and or student counselors, to ensure the welfare of the clients and maintain control between the client and the student. A supervisor's responsibility is to mentor and teach students and professionals (Erford, 2010, p. ...

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Listening To Troubled Families

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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The purpose of this essay is to critically analyse a report 'Listening to Troubled Families' (Casey, 2012). To accomplish this it will be necessary to give a brief historical overview of social policy and legislative developments from 1979 to the present day. It will go on to debate the drivers for contemporary practice and strategies that promote children safeguarding and family support. The essay will apply legislation, ...

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Discrimination Against The Elderly

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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This report will highlight the issue on discrimination against elderly people in countries such as Singapore, America and United Kingdom (UK). Similarly, all three countries face employment discrimination but there were slight improvements in UK. Situation of discrimination against elderly is considered to be the worse in America because they are also denied of opportunities to seek health care. The importance, impact of social discrimination and measures ...

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The Inequalities In UK Mental Health

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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Introduction and definitions: The World Health Organization (WHO) has defined the mental health as: �A state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to his or her community� (1). According to NHS website every year in the UK, more than 250,000 people ...

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Quality Of Life Among The Elderly

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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Loneliness is a geriatric giant leading to impaired quality of life, greater need for institutional care and increased mortality. Routasalo, Pitkala, 2003 The phenomenon of loneliness occurs in people of all ages it may be a particular problem in the elderly according to a study carried out at Edinburg University in the nursing science department. It is acknowledged that loneliness is not necessary accompaniment to ageing and ...

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Therapeutic Relationships In Mental Health

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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The remit of this essay is to explore and discuss the concept of therapeutic relationships in mental health and what is involved in building these relationships. The question is in two parts, so in the first part of the essay, the author wishes to explore the meaning of a therapeutic relationship and discuss what is needed from the nurse and service user to maintain this. In the ...

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The Delivery Of Social Work Services

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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The second part of the report concentrates on to understand process of ageing. It will then assess the role and function of social work within wider socio-political policy context especially in terms of poverty and inequalities. Finally it will be demonstrated how the identified issues may inform the policy and organisational context and the points raised will be summarised in the conclusion. According to World Health Organisation, ...

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Effects Of Shift Work On Employee

23 Mar 2015 21 Apr 2017

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3. Why and how might shift work impact on the health of employees? What could be done to minimise the health risks of such work? In modern life shift work becomes a necessary part of life. Shift work is an employment schedule that is not in the usual daytime hours and in which two or more groups of workers work at separate times in the 24 hrs. ...

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Poverty: Individuals And The Wider Community

23 Mar 2015 21 Apr 2017

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This essay will discuss what is meant by the term "Poverty", how it affects individuals and the wider community as well explaining why it is important for Social Workers to have a clear understanding of these issues. By looking at the organisations in place in the UK, in areas such as education and health and social care establishments; this essay will demonstrate how the structures of these ...

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Managing Quality in Health Care

23 Mar 2015 21 Apr 2017

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Total quality management: a way of managing people and business processes to ensure complete customer satisfaction at every stage internally and externally (Department of Trade and Industry, DTI 2010). Although different quality experts emphasize different experts of this methodology, its major components can be summarised as follows: processes, people, management systems and performance measurement. According to Ross and Perry (1999), in addition to creating delighted customers through ...

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Character Analysis: Theory Of Personality Development

23 Mar 2015 21 Apr 2017

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In the analysis of the star character Rachel in the 1968 movie 'Rachel Rachel' by Paul Newman, I have used the Theory of Personality Development by Freud Sigmund (1856-1939). Sigmund developed this theory about psychoanalysis from his works on patients with mental problems several years back. In this theory, Freud Sigmund believed that allthe spheres ofsomeone'spersonality were in one way or another determined by the sex of ...

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The Care of People in a Residential Setting

03 Oct 2016 21 Apr 2017

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SOCIAL WORK: Contribute to care of people in a residential setting TASK 1: Explanation of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and its application in the social services The Treaty of Waitangi is an agreement signed between the Maori and the Crown in the year 1840. It has four principles that are being applied in the social services of today, and these are: partnership, protection, participation and permission. These ...

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How Effective Is The Child Protection System?

23 Mar 2015 21 Apr 2017

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Literature highlights some of the challenges for social workers assessing and making decisions about African children and families whose cultures differ from the majority of the white population in United Kingdom. The critical evaluation of knowledge and research in child protection and prevention of child abuse in black African children is important to the forming of social work policy, services and appropriate intervention. This is because there ...

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Working With Different Service User Groups

23 Mar 2015 21 Apr 2017

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Explore the challenges faced by the differences in working with three Service User Groups - adults, older people and children. Discuss how, by drawing on relevant life course theories, your communication skills would need to be modified in order to meet these challenges and remain effective, anti-discriminatory and anti-oppressive. Interacting via communication with Service users is of one of the highest important aims for social / care ...

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Dietary Requirements: Nutritional Restrictions

23 Mar 2015 20 Apr 2017

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Clear and effective communication between partners is central to working with children and young people, it allows partners to put the needs and requirements of the children first enabling them to achieve the best possible outcomes for the children and their family. Good communication between partners allows trust to be built between everyone and enables everybody concerned to share their views and have them considered and valued. ...

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The Job Role Of A Social Worker

23 Mar 2015 20 Apr 2017

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A social worker's role is to provide support for people who have been socially excluded or are experiencing crisis. They maintain professional relationships with service users by acting as guides or critical friends. There job includes working with people as well as working closely with other health and social care staff, such as nurses when a child has been in hospital. Social workers job includes working in ...

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Legal And Ethical Aspects Of Social Care

23 Mar 2015 20 Apr 2017

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This essay will discuss the student's role within a residential care home in relation to legal and ethical aspects of health and social care. The essay will be looking at legislation that is in place to protect both the residents and staff of the home which is run for the care of young children. This will also look at values and ethics and why they are important. ...

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Understanding The Key Characteristics Of A Profession

23 Mar 2015 20 Apr 2017

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A profession means a group of people that are specialised in a particular occupation. For example, an individual that is a doctor can be specialised in children, therefore their occupation would be called paediatricians. Profession consists of professionals that have the same interest, skills based on theoretical knowledge. Therefore it is important that professionals should have extensive period of education to influence the competency of their profession. ...

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Domestic violence: A brief critical analysis of impact and interventions

08 Sep 2016 20 Apr 2017

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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: A BRIEF CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF IMPACT AND INTERVENTIONS BUILT ON A DEFINITIONAL, HISTORICAL, AND THEORETICAL FOUNDATION “And yet I fear you, for you're fatal then When your eyes roll so. Why I should fear I know not, Since guiltiness I know not, but yet I feel I fear.” Introduction The introductory quotation by Desdemona expresses her fear of Othello’s rage (Shakespeare, 1604, cited in ...

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Psychodynamic Theories: Social Behaviour

23 Mar 2015 20 Apr 2017

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This essay uses the ecological and the psychodynamic theories to explain social behaviour, predict the outcomes and formulate the hypothesis thus making an initial assessment on the Banks family. The essay will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each of the theories, the similarities and the differences between both of them and it will conclude that human life and behaviour is such a strong illustration that a ...

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Families And Sibling Abuse Understanding The Unthinkable

23 Mar 2015 20 Apr 2017

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Abuse, whether it be physical, emotional, or sexual, can infiltrate a family setting and alter the dynamics greatly. Within a family there are different relationships and bonds, and each one of those relationships may have a different motive and form of abuse within it. A type of abuse within a family that does not receive much attention from society is abuse by siblings. In general, abuse within ...

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Psychosocial Effects On Dementia Carers

23 Mar 2015 18 Apr 2017

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Dementia is a chronic, heterogeneous neurodegenerative disorder which develops as a function of age, typically from 65 years old, with symptoms ranging from personality changes and losses of memory/intellect to severe reductions in mobility. Alzheimer's disease is the most prevalent form of dementia (Cooper & Greene, 2005). The diverse and deteriorating nature of the dementia process is uncontrollable and dramatically reduces suffers ability to care for themselves ...

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Ethics And Values

23 Mar 2015 18 Apr 2017

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Ethical dilemma The ethical dilemma I will discuss will be based on some truth of an event that happened when I was a support worker five years ago in a mental health trust organisation. The patient will be referred to as girl ‘A' and members of the multidisciplinary team will be referred to as professionals. A very brief description of the girls mental health illness was schizophrenia ...

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Homelessness And The Policy Responses

23 Mar 2015 18 Apr 2017

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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 society. The groups I will focus my discussion on are young people and rough sleepers as the evidence indicates that young homeless people experience rough sleeping before securing temporary accommodation. There are wide ...

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The Principles Of Personalisation Processes

23 Mar 2015 18 Apr 2017

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Personalisation is considered as a process that involves the usage of technology to accommodate the differences between the individuals. It is becoming an increasingly popular area within health and education sectors (Department of Health, 2008). When discussed in terms of Health care, Personalisation involves thinking in relation to care and support services in a completely different way, building care provisions around the person in a way as ...

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Analysing Person Centred Planning

23 Mar 2015 18 Apr 2017

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The articles used in this annotated bibliography focus on person-centred planning and they explain the steps involved in devising the plan and ensuring that it is carried out. It describes all of the significant topics necessary to a plan; a few examples are wills and estate planning, the Henson Trust and individualized funding. The articles focus on the fact that people with developmental disabilities should have the ...

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The Successive Government Child Care Policies

23 Mar 2015 18 Apr 2017

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Successive governments have refined both legislation and policy, so that in general, the legislative framework for protecting children is basically sound. I conclude that the gap is not a matter of law but in its implementation. (Lord Laming, 2003, p. 7) The name 'social policy' is used to apply to the policies which governments use for welfare and social protection and the ways in which welfare is ...

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Challenges Faced By Working Couple

23 Mar 2015 18 Apr 2017

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The overarching purpose of the study was to know the impact of working hours on the work-life balance challenges faced by working couple. WLB from an employee perspective is the most important strategy of organisation. This article reports that the working hours have a significant relationship with the challenges faced by working couple. Data was collected from various countries like USA, India, Australia, and Canada. A total ...

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Effect of Drug and Alcohol interventions

23 Mar 2015 18 Apr 2017

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This study seeks to look at whether drug and alcohol interventions are of benefit to that of the service user, especially from an adult perspective. It will seek to address the help that is out there to help individuals who might recognise the need to be rid of their addiction and to be restored back to their normal routine life, before the addiction gets a hold of ...

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Mental Health And Community Care Report

23 Mar 2015 18 Apr 2017

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1.0 Introduction This report will explore on mental health and community care within the historical view of community care and the impact of ideological perspectives that have influenced it. It will further analyse the benefits and shortfalls since its implementation, taking into account the impact of the 1990 NHS Community Care Act and current reforms will be considered. Again, the effects of poverty and social exclusion for ...

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Interprofessional Collaboration in Health Care

23 Mar 2015 18 Apr 2017

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Interprofessional Collaboration in Health and Social Care is changing the face of service delivery based on government's attraction to this concept. This essay is an attempt to identify and evaluate weaknesses that affect interprofessional working, using a practice based critical incident (see Appendix A). In order to achieve this, a model of critical reflection, a combination of systematic analytical tools (SWOT, PESTEL) and use of relevant theories ...

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Family Conflict And Triangulation Analysis

23 Mar 2015 14 Apr 2017

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The purpose of this article is to illustrate the importance of boundary setting during parental conflict. Often children are incorporated both voluntarily and involuntarily in dyadic confrontations that involve the parents. This research shows the long term and short term effects on both the parent and child psychologically and physiologically. Boundary setting is important for the growth, development and current maintenance of a family. Involving children in ...

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The Common Assessment Framework

23 Mar 2015 14 Apr 2017

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The Common Assessment Framework is used by various professionals and agencies to use one process of sharing information and integrate working on a young person (revise & re-word more info) The CAF process is seen as a core element in integrated working and promotes more effective use of time used to assess young people, seen by many as a universal and neutral system used by all agencies. ...

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The concept of child abuse

23 Mar 2015 14 Apr 2017

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The concept of child abuse is historically, socially and culturally bound. Critically discuss this statement with reference to the subject material and literature. Introduction This paper will look at child abuse, what that is in Australia today. Through reviewing literature on child abuse and child protection this paper aims to show that the concept of child abuse is dependent on social and cultural values. In order to ...

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Nursing Care Centers For Older People

23 Mar 2015 14 Apr 2017

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The policy of health and social care is eloquent based on the care and demands of the older people. Older people as well as service providers are affected due to the continuing changes in health provision and pressures for cost containment. Many a time, older people have found themselves means-tested for services that have been provided free of cost. Arrangements from nursing care homes limit the money ...

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The Relationship Between Homelessness And Schizophrenia - Essay

23 Mar 2015 12 Apr 2017

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Psychiatric disorders can lead to many types of problems. These problems can range from housing instability to disease, and even death. Having a disorder and lack of stable living conditions most often further complicates the overall health and the care this is a bit confusing for a homeless adult. Without the proper health care, the mind will become even more unstable. This does not automatically follow logically. ...

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Essay on setting and work

23 Mar 2015 12 Apr 2017

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Describe the Setting and the Work it does This report is commissioned by the Local Authority and is the result of a review a Phase One Children's Centre who currently adopt and integrated model of working. The scope of the review was to identify benefits and limitations of an integrated approach. Furthermore, a brief exploration of the economic implications is provided and recommendations regarding future strategic structure ...

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Counselling Rape Survivors

23 Mar 2015 12 Apr 2017

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According to the Home Office findings, Rape is defined as ‘forced to have sexual intercourse (Vaginal or anal penetration)’. The legal definition stipulates it to be ‘penile’. In general terms, rape is an act of aggression and violence against another; it is not an act of sex but is one of specifically dominance and power. Key points of the findings of the Research, Development andStatistics directorate of ...

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The Social Worker: Addressing Social Exclusion - Essay

23 Mar 2015 12 Apr 2017

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The aim of this essay is to discuss the role of the social worker addressing social exclusion and discrimination along with the impact it has on individuals, groups and communities. I will also discuss my understanding of anti-oppressive practice and ethical issues within the Welsh context, and the issues social workers will face daily throughout their profession. To allow a social worker to carry out their roles ...

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Healing in Medicine: Norman Bethune

03 Oct 2016 11 Apr 2017

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The True Spirit of Healing in Medicine: Norman Bethune Introduction Henry Norman Bethune was a Canadian doctor who became famous for his selfless service of people in the Second Sino-Japanese War. His service endeared him to Mao Zedong, who hailed him as a communist and supporter of the Chinese people’s efforts for liberation. Even today, Bethune’s popularity in China stands undisputed with his statues present all ...

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The impact of the life course in health and social care

03 Oct 2016 11 Apr 2017

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Drawing on the concepts you have studied in Block1, critically reflect on the ways in which your own life course has affected how you work in, or use, health and social care. In this essay I will look at the life course perspective, and how it has provided me with an essential tool to offer a more personalised service. I will describe how my own life ...

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Efforts to address the development of rural areas

03 Oct 2016 11 Apr 2017

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DEVELOPING RURAL AREAS Contents Introduction. Literature review Current efforts to address this problem locally Plan References Introduction. Rural social work is poised to face many challenges that make it difficult for a social worker to provide services to a needy person in the community. Oppression by the society and also other social classes in the society has caused the poor to be looked down upon ...

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Reflective assessment on health and well-being

03 Oct 2016 11 Apr 2017

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REFLECTIVE COMMENTARY This experience involved working with a group of 6 women with learning disabilities who live in an urban area of Wales. The group was set up to enable women with learning disabilities to improve their health and well-being. It provides equal opportunities by increasing their knowledge on how to be healthy and active like other women ...

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