...in improving the lives of others work through tough life circumstances may want to contemplate a profession in social work. There are several different ways that social workers can help people. Not only do they offer help, but they also give people the knowledge to learn how to help themselves (Discover Social Work). I have chosen this career path because I love being the person to make a difference in someone’s life in any way that I can to help them. Many people think of social workers as just being those workers at their local Department of Human Services offices that removes a person’s children from their homes, but you may actually find social workers working in law enforcement departments, schools, mental health clinics and military facilities. This field is open to many opportunities and there are various steps to take if someone is in preparation for a career in social work. When a person is considering a career in social work they must first self-evaluate themselves to see if they are of good moral character; in other words, are they doing it for the right reasons, because in this field, you are responsible for the lives and livelihood of others. Social workers must be compassionate and considerate of others and all situations. “The social work profession has its own body of knowledge, code of ethics, practice standards, credentials, state licensing, and a nationwide system of accredited education programs (National Association of Social Workers).” In this field there...
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...Human Services Profession Susan Breedlove, Bambi Shelnutt, Tosha Hawes, Frances Macmillan BSHS/305 July 27, 2015 Ellen Biros Human Services Profession Someone who works in human services works with children and families, caseworkers at DCS, licensed social workers, and residential directors at social service agencies, human service technicians or assistants. They will also work with professional like Psychologist and counselors. Where a social worker offers financial, personal, mental health and physical assistance to disadvantaged and disabled individuals to help them get back on their feet. (PSG, 2015) They both play vital roles in the social services field helping people regain control over issues they may be having. You will need to earn a Master of Social Work degree to practice in the field of social work. The human services field does not require a master's degree although an associate degree often qualifies you to work as a human services professional. (OBE, 2015) There are many reasons why someone would choose a career in this field like experiences and the need to help others. When one is motivated to help others because they have lived in those same setting, this then becomes another good reason to choose to work for the human services agency. Someone that has experience domestic violence may consider becoming a Domestic violence crisis worker because they understand how hard it is to talk to someone and can make that person feel more at ease and safer...
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...Unit 17: Working in the social care sector Explain the requirements for two different careers in the social care sector Introduction: In this assignment I will be choosing 2 different careers in the social care sector of my choice and briefly explain the different aspects to do with each. The two I have decided to look at our social work and care worker. P1-Explain the requirements for two different careers in the social care sector Requirements for a social worker- Social work is a graduate profession and you will need either a bachelor’s degree in it (BSW) or a postgraduate degree to register with Health and care professions (HCPC) in England. In order to get a degree you will be required to study a 3 year undergraduate degree or a 2 year postgraduate degree in social work that is approved by the Health and Care professional’s councils (HCPC). You will also need to pass background checks by the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). In order to study for an undergraduate degree in social work you will require, 5 GCSEs (A-C) including maths and English, at least 2 A levels, or an equivalent qualification such as BTEC National Diploma or NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care. You will need to have relevant experience in a social work or social care setting before being accepted on to the postgraduate course. That is why it is necessary you gain as much work experience as possible, either through paid work in community care settings or voluntary work. Some specialised universities...
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...Vision and goals My vision as a future Social Worker is to allow the knowledge that I have gained through academics and hands on experience as long as my passion, help guide me in becoming an effective advocate for marginalized individuals. A goal upon graduation is to continue to work in a school setting with my PPSC credential for two to three years as a Psychiatric Social Worker, while accumulating hours to become an LCSW. By obtaining an LCSW, I would like to open up a private practice; however, I am unsure which population I would like to serve at the moment. Due to an MSW degree being so versatile, I have a vision to work in the Geriatrics field. As I have always a strong connection and interest in working with the elderly population. In addition to my work as a Social Worker, I would to continue my education in 5 to 8 years in order to pursue a PhD in Education, because I can visualize myself taking on the role of a principal or superintendent. My ultimate goal throughout my field of practice is to instill hope in others and to help restore the broken. Personally, there is no greater feeling than witnessing change for the better happen right in front of me. That moment when the person I am trying to strive to support gets it, and the door for opportunity has been opened and that is rewarding to me. In order for my vision to happen, I personally believe that I must be comfortable with change and growth. There were many times when I became uncomfortable with stepping...
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...Jim and Betty are both MSWs—social workers with master’s degrees in Social Services. They work at the Jefferson St. Clair-Blount Mental Health Authority (JSBMHA), a certified agency for the provision of services to families and individuals who have mental, psychological, or addiction issues. Both Jim and Betty provide direct services to clients on a referral basis and each carries a significant caseload, made greater by the recent resignation of another MSW. Jim is a seasoned social worker who has more than 20 years experience in direct social services and social service administration. Betty is a relatively new social worker; this is her first job out of college. One day after work, Jim and Betty meet for coffee in the cafeteria where Betty reveals that she has had a very difficult day. She discusses in detail a challenging case about a family with an alcoholic mother and a codependent father. The case involves three children under the age of 10 and Betty discusses each by name, their personalities, and physical appearances. She is very concerned about the children’s well-being in the home environment. Betty gives concrete examples of her concern for each child. Jim offers Betty support and advice on how to handle the case, and refers to a previous case they worked on together. The names and details of that earlier case are also discussed. The next day, both Jim and Betty are summoned to the JSBMHA director’s office where they are confronted about their conversation in...
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...will need to attend all my sessions so that I do not miss any important information, take down brief key notes so that I can include everything which I have been taught in my assignments. I will make sure that my assignments are presentable by making sure that they include a front cover, page numbers and a reference page so they are aware from where I got my information from. During the study of my BTEC Health and Social Care programme I have gained knowledge. I have learnt to research topics and gather lots of information from different resources in order to complete my assignments. These will both be valuable skills when I go to university. Setting my own action plan has helped me to apply for university. I have realised how determined I am to finish my BTEC Extended Diploma with the highest grade I can achieve and then go on to university to peruse a career in social work. The targets I have set for myself have helped me a lot through my course; they have helped me to gain certain skills which will help me in university and everyday life. I have gained work experience in a residential home for older people, a nursery and a school for children with...
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...Disenrollment from Washburn Master of Social Works Program The purpose of this letter if to provide my reasoning for discontinuing my Master of Social Works (MSW) education with Washburn University. Many factors contributed to my decision to abandon my pursuit of obtaining a Master of Social Works degree with Washburn University. Initially, my practicum instructor and I discussed a timeline for completing my practicum which I provided and was in line to finish the practicum, however, over time; miscommunication occurred between the participants involved in my practicum. Secondly, during my practicum internship, my eighty-year-old mother was diagnosed with cancer requiring transportation to radiation treatment and follow-up pulmonary...
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...History 1: Product Design Masters (QF Level 4) BA (Hons) in Product Design DS 125 103 Module no Year 1 – Sem. 1 Total Hours: 42 DPD4120 No. of weeks: 14 Hours per week: 3 This project is designed to assess your ability to: - interpret the key issues of product design from different perspectives, including social, economic and technological, through rigorous explorations on selected product design masters. - critically review contemporary product design in the professional context. relate key aspects of the design masters’ design philosophies to design artefacts. Brief This assignment allows you to demonstrate your understanding of the design philosophies of the product design masters and apply critiques across theoretical and practical work. In this assignment you will be required to: research into one current or past product design master; relate key aspects of the design masters’ design philosophies to design artifact; interpret the key issues of product design from different perspectives, including social, economic and technological; critically review their contributions and effect to contemporary product design; and write an essay with a minimum of 1,500 words based on your findings. Deliverables 1,500 word essay in hard copy plus a soft copy in MS Word format uploaded into MOODLES. (MLO 2, 3, 4) 1. 2. 3. The essay should include images and text. Please take note of the color, form, materials used by the product design masters in their designs. Essay...
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...of living organism in relation to the environmental systems such as social ecology and economic ecology. Social ecology explores the symbolic, psychological, and ethical issues affecting the relationship between human beings and the environment. In most cases, eco-feminists surveys issues affecting women in the society such as political rights, access to employment, and other civil rights that are entitled to women. Nonetheless, women rights are still contemporary issues in the modern society because of the social alienation and discrimination of women in the society because of the patriarchal societal systems. For instance, the western culture does not advocate for equality for women as far as gender sensitivity is concerned. According to Gregory and Giancola, the issues affecting women in the society are ecological crisis dated from the 20th century (377). Therefore, Eco-feminism offers an alternative that society needs to adopt and embrace to foster equality without oppression of women. As such, there are varied Eco-feminist principles outlined by world ethics. The first Eco-feminist principle is reshaping of the dualistic concept of reality (Gregory and Giancola 382). The concept of reality focuses on the biblical fact that women were the last people to come to earth. Based on this assertion, eco-feminist argues that it is prudent for women to discover their reality on earth. This is because of the social devastation created by males based on religion. For instance, males...
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...The everyday worker has never had an easy time trying to fit in with the rest of society, and this includes the people in charge of their businesses and even government for which they work. Working class citizens, more than not, had no choice in whether or not to work, in most cases they became thrust into positions because their family needed the money to survive. Socially this class of people had no other choice in what to do, because they did not have the opportunity to escape the clutches of their social class. The laborers of history showed time and time again that trying to escape the class was one of the hardest and most difficult endeavors to undertake. Social factors led to the men working in the printing shop of Jacques Vincent to have a workers revolt in which they were to kill their bosses cat (Workers Revolt: The Great Cat Massacre of the Rue Saint-Severin, Darnton, 75). Cultural...
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...the slaves for a certain period of time. The renter is required to have the slave with in their presence day and night. The renter must feed and provide the slave with other necessities. The only thing the owner needs to still provide the slave wen being rented is clothing. The slave will be given four days off a year and any more days off due to illness, festivals or a pressing necessity on the part of his or her master would be deducted from the rental fee. The rent is due at the end of the month without delay by monthly installments. One of the jobs of slaves in Rome was farming. On page 165 to 166 in Shelton, Varro breaks up farming instruments in three categories. Slaves are found under the “articulate instrument” category. Slaves that work on the farms shouldn’t be timid and would have ‘overseers’ (who were also slaves) who would give the slaves on the land orders. The overseers must have knowledge in basic reading and posses writing skills. The overseer should be experienced in farming operations, because he not only gives orders but also performs the work, so the...
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...wij goed op de hoogte wat betreft de benodigde kennis om de casus naar behoren af te ronden. Echter zijn wij wel van mening dat wij moeite hadden om overzicht te houden, vanwege het feit dat er sprake is van een casus gegeven in een andere taal. Wij hebben dan ook eerst de gehele casus vertaald. Hier hebben wij veel kennis van genoten en profijt gehad tijdens de opdrachten. Bij deze willen wij onze begeleidende docent, Dhr. van der Waal, voor het vak FACMAC0132 bedanken voor de ondersteuning die hij geboden heeft tijdens de betreffende periode. Tevens willen wij elkander bedanken voor de fijne samenwerking die wij hebben ondervonden tijdens het verloop van het project. Inhoudsopgave Inleiding 4 De bijdrage die de afdeling social work op dit moment levert, financieel en anderzijds 5 De studenten 5 Maatschappelijk 5 De financiën 6 Het effect van het sluiten van de afdeling op de universiteit 10 De studenten 10 Maatschappelijk 10 De financiën 10 Het effect van het sluiten van het bachelor programma op de universiteit 12 De...
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...were forced to become slaves to work and serve for their masters. Twelve Years A Slave, written by Solomon Northup, is a story about a slave regaining his freedom. Solomon, who was called Platt in the story Twelve Years A Slave, was a human trafficking’s victim who was heavily suffering the cruelty and brutality under the slavery system during nineteenth century. Stanley Elkins, who was a historian, compares the Nazi concentration camp with the Southern slaves in his book Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life. Elkins’s ideas were mixed; while his ideas on the treatment of slaves were accurate, most of his ideas on the effects of slavery were inaccurate. First of all, Elkins accurately describes the harsh conditions faced by Southern slaves. Slaves faced many obstacles and punishments that they could not avoid during the time they served for their masters. To be specific, they heavily suffered much ill-treatment which affected directly to their physical body. Solomon points out, “Scars upon a slave’s back were considered evidence of a rebellious or unruly spirit, and hurt this sale.” (80) Scars on their backs proved how slaves’ bodies suffered during the time they were working for their masters. If slaves did just a little mistake or didn’t accomplish their work as how their master wanted, masters would heavily punish the slaves. Also, in the story, Solomon almost suffered his death because the unreasonable master thought Solomon wanted to betray...
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...that were important were serfdom and social status. The significance of these things can be demonstrated through pieces of literature from 19th Century Russia. Serfdom was extremely popular in 19th century Russia. Serfs and peasants were 82% of Russia’s society, since farming was major during this time. Peasants were not educated, nor did they have the opportunity. They could not make any decisions for themselves. Since the peasants were not allowed to have their own property, they lived with their master and mistress. In 1861, serfdom was finally banned by Alexander II, but they had to go back to their master and mistress and work for money. (Snider) Foolishness in 19th Century Russian literature is well demonstrated through “Sleepy”. In “Sleepy”, Varka is a 13 year old serf that lacks sleep due to her master and mistress working her too hard. Her master and mistress forced her to stay up all night with the baby while it bawled. The baby just kept crying through all of Varka’s efforts to get it to sleep. Eventually, Varka fell asleep, but was awaken by her master smacking her in the back of the head, calling her a scabby slut. She started rocking the baby back to sleep, but fell back asleep. As soon as her mistress saw her she yelled at her, and asked for the baby so she could feed it. Varka realized that the baby was her enemy and was keeping her from sleeping. She figured the only resolution was to kill the baby. The fact that the master and mistress did nothing while she...
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...FINAL REPORT Ivana Kardum PART 1 New strategy-ICA It was essential to define the main features of our interest in the master which represents specialisation of individual capabilities and acquisition and development of new strategies to be implemented in any initiative related to creation of added value to a specific territory. This Master was designed in order to create a network of Euro Mediterranean cooperation represented by experts of different nationalities and entrepreneurial, scientific, cultural and artistic specialization. Moreover it was essential to develop strategies of evaluation and promotion of systems of production whose high quality derives from cooperation and integration of processes between systems of enterprise, culture and art, artistic world and local community, competences and traditions and values represented in the territory by cultural, historical and ambient heritage. At the very beginning of the master we were introduced with the theme of industrial districts and their importance. But we went further because we wanted to create cultural interventions for greater social, cultural and artistic satisfaction. In this sense Sansepolcro represents a natural ambient for such interventions being the part of the southern Tuscany which has rich cultural heritage but not completely evaluated and promoted. The provinces of Siena, Arezzo and Grosseto represent the territory of such interventions. Systems of interaction in a specific region are...
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