...Final Project The use of “Best Practice” in Guardianship Student: Takysha Crawford tcrawford@waldenu.edu Student ID # A00487277 Program: PhD in Human Services Specialization: Family Studies and Intervention Strategies Walden University May 18, 2014 Introduction My specific area of human services would is guardianship of incapacitated adults who need guardians to help them provide food, clothing or shelter, or to care for his or her own physical health, and to manage his or her own financial affairs. When we think of guardianship, we often think about children who have no one and need people to serve as guardians but we really don’t think about the adults who, due to physical or mental incapacity, need someone to serve as their guardian. These people need someone to help make financial, medical, and personal decisions on their behalf. The Uniform Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Act, considers an incapacitated adult as one who is unable receive and evaluate information or make or communicate decisions to such an extent that the individual lacks the ability to meet essential requirements for physical health, safety, or self-care, even with appropriate technological assistance (Demakis, 2013). To date all 50 states have passed some type of guardianship reform: however these reforms vary considerably from state to state (Kubik & Woods, 2005). According to Demakis (2013), First, a petition is made to the court, most often by a family member, in which...
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...The existing tendencies in child guardianship provisions in the United States all circle round the greatest awareness of the kid. In approximately all occasions this means that the parents require shared guardianship legal custody. Child custody is decided built on many influences whereby each influence is intended to help the judge in determining what would be in the best interests of the child. 1800’s the permitted policy recognized as Pater familias specified that kids were possessions and, since females could not own material goods, dads were automatically assumed solitary guardianship of their offspring (Costanzo & Krauss, 2012). In the 1800’s guardianship progressed to contain the certainty that juvenile was an significant phase of lifecycle...
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...commonly defined as the taking of a person from one place to another against his will or her will, or the confining of a person to a controlled space. Some kidnapping laws require extortion or the facilitation of a crime. A parent without legal custody rights may be charged with kidnapping for taking his or her own child, in certain circumstances. In Badlu Shah vs. Emperor[2] it was held that Kidnapping and abduction do not include the offence of wrongful confinement or keeping, in confinement, a kidnapped person[3]. The words ‘kidnapping’ and ‘abduction’ do not include the offence of wrongful confinement or keeping in confinement a kidnap □ Kidnapping is of two kinds: 1. Kidnapping from India 2. Kidnapping from lawful guardianship. Section 360 1. Kidnapping from India — whoever conveys any person...
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...country is, and how health considers what is marketing, it's a discussion worth having for the sake of everyone, because marketing is an organizational function to deliver an ever better life for those who develop and, more important and consequently for society. Having considered by many years, the marketing was only for-profit entities, made those who run it was just what I should not have done. If it had been implemented properly and effectively, social behavior would be different: we would have real actions to generate and maintain the market (suppliers, customers or patients and others) without major problems due to bad practices (wanting to believe that ignorance of those who have had direct), and not have to live through guardianships and demands against the system, to achieve what should be a priority of the sector entities and the government itself: humanism. If to basically disregard the grassroots action of the sectors involved in the process and the marketing muscle health, specifically, add the fact the desire to search for yield Policy organizations in all areas shown, we can conclude clearly that, perhaps more strongly, the latter factor has made the marketing of health and ill health is suffers from marketing best practices. The way health care in our country is, and how health considers what is marketing, it's a discussion worth having for the sake of everyone, because marketing is an organizational function to deliver an ever better life for those...
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...The obligations of the average woman are rendering public services are distinctive because it is removed from personal and the public’s ambitions. The cry for political equality has gone on for so long. The civil and legal rights of woman have been established without the woman’s vote (Dodge, 1914). A woman had made a name for herself, her name was Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Elizabeth appealed to New York for the Mothers equal guardianship of her children and the Revolution, for an eight-hour day and equal pay for woman. Inspiring woman and being a strenuous advocate to reform the woman’s dress and insisting that there must be freedom of the body as well as the mind and soul (Harper, 1915). Woman’s Rights The exceptional woman today is rapidly entering the ranks of those thus serve the state. The obligations of the average woman are rendering public services are distinctive because it is removed from personal and the public’s ambitions. Woman have the right to serve the state and serve well in proportion to her freedom. Expressive cry for political equality has gone on for so long. The civil and legal rights of woman have been established without the woman’s vote. The claim that a woman’s vote would be a waste of time and energy that there is no compensating gain to offset the economic loss of two people to do what...
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...Priscila De los Santos HUM-401-1900 Jagadisa-Devasri Dacus November 5, 2015 Mary S. Psychosocial Assessment Identifying information According to a report on September 29, 2007, Susan, at the Borough of Manhattan, reported an alleged inadequate guardianship. There was an African American family whose members are grandmother, Mary 53-year-old; her daughter 32-year-old Susan; and 15 year old son, Jason. This African American family has a comfortable socioeconomic status. The family appears to have enough money to meet needs because Jason is able to participate in extracurricular activities. Mary’s family seems to be middle class. Referral Susan’s son, Jason, confirmed what was reported and also informed CPS that she filed a petition with Family Court to terminate the guardianship rights of Mary S. In addition, it was disclosed that Jason often called Susan crying for help. Mary S. has used excessive punishment while disciplining and taking care of her grandson Jason. The source also disclosed that Mary S. has left Jason home alone for days at a time. The source stated her concern for Jason’s safety and well-being because Mary S. is a retired corrections officer that might still have a gun in the home. The allegation is assumed that leaving Jason with his grandmother will be dangerous....
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...Genetta Bennett Child Courts & Care Professor Tribble Spring 2014 Final 1. What year and who began the modern welfare? A. In 1935 FDR began the modern welfare. 2. What does the term welfare mean? A. Welfare is the well-being and social support for citizens. 3. Child welfare has a duel role. What are they? A. The dual role is to provide direct services to children and influence public policy. 4. What is the ecologically oriented child welfare practice? A. The practice is to nurture and support biological families in invironment and protect kinship. 5. Family breakup is strongly related to which two cases? A. The two cases involved are unemployment and poverty. 6. What race of children is most likely to live with their grandparents? A. The African American race is most likely to live with their grandparents. 7. What does TANF mean and when did it began? A. TANF means temporary assistance to needy family. It began in 1997. 8. What are four main branches of family services and briefly explain? A. The four main branches of family services are protective service, supportive service, foster care and adoption. 9. What does the term wrap around services mean? A. The term means multiple services work together to promote reunification and prevent separation, combination of community services to families. 10. What does the term cultural competence mean as it relates to family...
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...important equality is throughout the entire world. In addition, during the March on Washington on August 28th, 1963, King gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech which also helped to change the mindset of many Americans from being against desegregation, to advocating for the cause. In the deeply conservative parts of Saudi Arabia, male guardianship is flowing through the area. The Saudi women are “unrecognized by the state as full legal adults” (Al-Dosari). Due to this guardianship system, a woman cannot mold decisions for herself. If these women could formulate their own decisions, they could escape the toxic environment of Saudi Arabia and truly do as they wish. Furthermore, in Saudi Arabia, religious police may harass women for “exposing what they consider to be too much flesh or wearing too much makeup” (“Seven Things Women in Saudi Arabia Cannot Do”). Because of these restrictions that Saudi Arabian women face, they are not given the chance to venture out and find their purpose in the world. Instead, they must always please the male gender, but women will probably never find true satisfaction in this. If these women were freed from the male guardianship system, then they could very well change the world for the better. Freedom is not being strictly ruled by others. No doubt, being ruled under an autocrat such as those in Ukraine, Egypt, Iraq, and many more, limits a citizen’s rights. Dov Seidman, C.E.O of LRN, which advises global businesses on governance, “looks at the world through...
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...1. Identify the legal issues coming out of this case and discuss any intervention strategy that you will use to deal with them. Also, discuss any theory or theories that you will use to inform your action/s. This assignment is about the emergence of a new type of family structure within the Caribbean islands. It is about a same sex family, comprising of two men and a little boy. Peter who is the breadwinner of the family, Jerome, the keeper of the home, and little Richie who is Peter's five (5) years old nephew. This is a different type of family structure, not the type that we are used to, but still a family none the less. They share all the joys and sorrows of any family. This family is going through a difficult time, which has resulted in them breaking up. Because of this breakup many issues (social / legal) present themselves. Some of these legal issues are as follows. • Laws relating to cohabitation relationships for same sex couples. • Maintenance of a partner of a broken cohabitation relationship related to same sex couple. • Domestic abuse laws as it relates to same sex couples. • Shelter at homes for battered spouses (male) and the availability of same. • Laws relating to the adoption of minors by same sex couples. • Laws as it relates to Gays, Lesbians, Transgender and Transvestites. COHABITATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS ACT 30 of 1998 (chapter 45:55) -An Act to confer...
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...situations, how they treat others, or how they treat themselves can be traced back to their guardians, mentors, or significant others. The guardianship Mother Shipton and the Duchess have over Piney shows a loving, mother-like care a guardian should have. The mentorship John Oakhurst and Tom Simpson had shows healthy relationship, where Mr. Oakhurst’s only purpose was to help Tom. The significant relationships between characters vary; Tom and Piney, Mother Shipton and the Duchess’s previous ‘relationships’, and John Oakhurst and the Duchess. With each type of relationship, there are those healthy and unhealthy....
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...In today’s society, we have two types of juveniles that re being brought up in this world, the ones who make wise decisions and the others who have and I do not care attitude. The ones who make wise decisions want to be successful and an up right citizen of society while the other ones are complete opposite and would rather spend his or her time planning crimes. There are many reasons why juveniles make the decisions they do and it varies from boredom, their upbringing, and the groups they have chosen to hang out among, these groups may peer pressure one into committing a crime, while other groups are busy studying and getting ready for their futures. We as society have to figure out why these groups of juveniles decide to make the wrong decision and become involved in petty crimes. We need to gather information on why juveniles choose to involve themselves in criminal activities; there are many theories to this question. One of these theories is Biochemical; this can govern an individual’s behavior and personality, “including levels of aggression and depression” (Siegel and Welsh, 2009, p. 81). Biochemical can happen from the time the individual is conceived if their mother has taken harmful substances while being pregnant. While the mother has been using harmful substances she has also damaged her baby, this can lead to antisocial behavior in juveniles. An individual may even have certain chemical imbalances such as: sodium, mercury, potassium, and iron. This can lead...
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...Reflection Paper on Plato’s Republic According to Plato, a perfect society is a society that is organized in a superlatively efficient way, a society, which some scholars consider as an aristocratic government (Phylosophypages, 2001). Plato had it that such a society is made up of the rulers, the soldiers, and the people. In this perfect society, Plato claimed that the guardians of the state are supposed to be people with skills to lead. He was however, incredulous by the fact that this may not be achieved in the future of the perfect society. To this fact he gives an ingenious riposte, such societies will be under the guardianship of the offspring of the current guardians. That means what the future society will be under the guardianship of a not skill but the benefits of inheritance. In such a society, dissatisfaction is possibly the way of the day. Plato maintained that for dissatisfaction an understanding of the nature of the human being is the answer. That is, people are naturally different and they have where they fit in the society (Philosophyprofessor). In such a situation, they will be able to rule the society. A perfect society, I believe, is one that is distinctive by leaders who have the interests of the society at hand. That is, a society under the reign of guardians who are in favor of the members of the society and their needs. A society that is simply having rulers who have inherited power is liable to doom. This is because, in most cases, such kinds of people...
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...even life itself and when does that cease to exist. For many this is a religious belief which is deeply personal and different for each person. Who has the ability to decide this question, when a person is incapacitated and can’t make the decision for herself moves this into the the sociologic area. Terri’s parent and husband stood at odds as to the answer to this question and since Terri had no living well or medical power of attorney the decision ultimately fell to the Court. According to Florida state law in patient incapable of making decisions fall under the jurisdiction the guardianship court. In an attempt...
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...Individual Theories CJS/240 December 3, 2011 Asharian Moore Individual Theories In today’s society, we have two types of juveniles that re being brought up in this world, the ones who make wise decisions and the others who have and I do not care attitude. The ones who make wise decisions want to be successful and an up right citizen of society while the other ones are complete opposite and would rather spend his or her time planning crimes. There are many reasons why juveniles make the decisions they do and it varies from boredom, their upbringing, and the groups they have chosen to hang out among, these groups may peer pressure one into committing a crime, while other groups are busy studying and getting ready for their futures. We as society have to figure out why these groups of juveniles decide to make the wrong decision and become involved in petty crimes. We need to gather information on why juveniles choose to involve themselves in criminal activities; there are many theories to this question. One of these theories is Biochemical; this can govern an individual’s behavior and personality, “including levels of aggression and depression” (Siegel and Welsh, 2009, p. 81). Biochemical can happen from the time the individual is conceived if their mother has taken harmful substances while being pregnant. While the mother has been using harmful substances she has also damaged her baby, this can lead to antisocial behavior in juveniles. An individual may even have certain...
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...In his article, “Gay Marriages: Make Them Legal” Thomas B. Stoddard discusses the injustice that homosexuals life because they are denying their right to marriage. Karen Thompson and Sharon Kowalski were married to each other spiritually but not legally. In 1983 Sharon was in a car accident, and she was left in poor health. As a result, she could not walk and talk very well. Karen tried to get guardianship over her life partner, but she was refused since both of them were not legally married. Subsequently, Sharon’s parents were given guardianship over their daughter, and they both decided to move her to a care home hundreds of miles away. When Sharon’s health improved, she decided to reunite with her life partner once again. Stoddard...
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