...Social Workers and Health Promotion Interventions Social workers can provide 1. Health promotional interventions, including couple and family counseling and self-help and mutual aid groups, to encourage lifestyle changes in amenable clients. 2. These social work interventions may became critical components when client became anxious when their elevated blood pressure remained unchanged. 3. health provider availability on an as-needed basis to consult with social workers for clients with dangerously elevated readings, and to re-assess and refer clients who may need emergency medical treatment. It might also be established that this health provider will also visit the agency on a periodic basis to provide follow-up assessment and confirmation of blood pressures, medical advice, and arrangements for medical appointments to clients who have not attended follow-up medical appointments, including referrals arranged by the social worker, or who remain anxious about their blood pressure. 4. social work clients may avoid or delay initial contact with health providers until they become aware that they have a condition that requires medical treatment; this resistance may be related to factors such as illness denial, fear of medical providers, and financial or health insurance concerns. The coupling of blood pressure monitoring within the context of trusting relationships between social workers and clients, in which stressful psychosocial, familial, and illness dynamics of...
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...Writing Assignment #1 Perception of Social Work Assignment According to the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), social work as profession originated over one hundred years ago. I perceive social work as a job that helps children and adults to be safe within their environment. Helping children and adults improve the quality of life. Therefore, making social work is an important job. When I think of social work I think about problem solving because, I perceive social workers as solving problems. I also perceive a social worker as an individual who prevents problem from developing. Bureau of Labor Statistics defines social work, as an individual that assists people by helping them cope with and solve issues in their everyday lives, such as family and personal problems and dealing with relationships. Furthermore, social workers also help people with disabilities and children facing abuse, unemployment, and social problems. In addition there are various types of social workers. These various types of social workers includes: child, family, medical, public and school social workers. These social workers provide services and assistance to improve the social and psychological functioning of children and their family (Bureau of Labor Statistics). Child, family, and school social workers help to improve the situation. For example, they may assist single parents, abused children, and arrange adoptions. Specializing in working with a particular problem, population or settings...
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...more than 100 school shootings since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary. (www.schoolsecurity). Traumatic stress and psychological distress play a major role in counseling children. School counseling has become even more valuable in the U.S. due to traumatic events such as school shootings. School shootings have had a major impact on students, families and communities. There is a more security and law enforcement present at schools across the US and metal detectors in schools also. School children are being taught how to prepare if there is a shooter or shooters in schools. Due to the increased acts of violence in schools and the need for intensive intervention in student issues, school personnel, school boards, and communities are recognizing the need to provide effective prevention and intervention programs to address social, emotional, and academic needs of students. (Davis, T., 2015, Exploring School Counseling). In the next ten years even more attention will be needed to counseling of young children. There are students who have undiagnosed mental health issues, counselors have to be diligent and observant when working with students. In today’s society students are stressed, some are highly medicated. Counselors have to be aware of each student needs, behaviors, and work with all staff to meet the needs of these...
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...Elementary and Middle School Social Workers Kristen Zanghi The University of North Carolina at Pembroke Interview with the Social Worker: The Social Worker that I interviewed is Flossie Hunt, who works at Pembroke Elementary and Middle School. Her specific job title is the School Social Worker, whose qualifications that are required include a Bachelor in Social Work and having completed the School Social Work class (Hunt). A School Social Worker has many responsibilities when it comes to a days work. One is to empower the students, families, and school personnel to access available opportunities and resources that develop each student’s potential. They make assessments of student, family, and school needs and direct the service/services delivery. They are the advocacy of a student when needed and handle consultations and collaborations. They deal with situations like program planning, implementation, and evaluation and they deal with the accountability of the students. (Hunt) The roles played by a School Social Worker vary in the severity of the situation with a student. They must meet the social service needs of children and must try to improve the communication between the home and the school. Their job is to serve homes, schools, and the community. As stated before, a School Social Worker is required to have a Bachelor in Social Work. It would be an even better advantage to have a Master in Social Work (Hunt). Social Workers working in a specific field...
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...Child and Family Social Worker Kaplan University Professor Pruett CM107-98 April 17, 2014 The first source listed below was found on the KU Online Library. This was a very interesting article to read for my final project. I choose to read The Survival Guide for Newly Qualified Child and Family Social Workers: Hitting the Ground Running. After reading this eBook, I found that each chapter has a range of tasks, exercises and checklists, which provide hints and tips to help professionals manage a range of different issues. Issues that is likely to arise during the first year as a newly qualified social worker. This book contains great advice and guidance for new social workers. This is a good book that triggers your thinking. It can be used to set us up on the right direction or to help us avoid difficulty when dealing with clients. (Donnellan, 2010) This was a perfect book for me to read because I am planning on becoming a Child and Family Social worker, once I obtain my Bachelor’s degree. This book is great because it is intended for new entrants into the field of human services. So, it perfectly fits with the topic I will be writing about in my Unit 9 Final Project. It contains a lot of information on what to expect when in this field. This is source is reliable, because I found it on Kaplan Universities Library. Everything found in this library is suitable. The second source I choose was from O*NET OnLine. This website contains occupational information. By searching...
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...levels give a broad view of the impact that Human Services has on our communities and our nation. In the following pages I will discuss the past and present purposes of Human Service Practice's. The human services field has many facets that I will examine such as (1) history (2), goals that have been researched and (3) general practices. Including theoretical deliberations that are present, common intervention strategies that have been used and ethical considerations when counseling takes place. History of Human Services In the Human Services field professionals work together on helping individuals in the basic need of life such as health, clothing, food safety, health, and shelter. Human service professionals will also face mental and emotional issues."[pic]During the late 1950s and 1960s, there were[pic] several [pic]changes in the area of helping[pic] individuals [pic]in need. Populations like the[pic] substance abuser, [pic]unemployed, children in need,[pic] poor individuals, children in need, elderly, disabled, the poor and others began to be recognize the as need to have social and rehabilitation services. [pic]In 1956 The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), provided[pic] sources [pic]to establish the first associate degree program in mental health at Purdue University. This would be[pic] a [pic]human[pic] service program [pic]across the[pic] nation. Around [pic]this time, new...
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...local authority’s Social services departments and others to act together providing services and support for children, young people and their families. The introduction of the Children’s Act was a landmark and a significant turning point for children’s social work. The result was a move from concern with child welfare to child protection and a frequently authoritarian intervention. The act was introduced in 1989 by the Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative Government just a year before of her being replaced by John Major as Prime Minister of the UK. With the change in Government when The Labour Party came into power with Tony Blair as the new Prime Minister was the beginning of a shift in social work as Labour’s administrations gave continuity to the Thatcher’s ideologies in many aspects. Therefore, with a string of high profile cases of child abuse in those years, the Labour Government in 2003 published “Every Child Matters” with the aim to address the immediate concerns identified in both reports, and a range of circumstances that happened in families and impacted on the lives of children and young people in the UK. The proposal of the White Paper was with five outcomes children’s services needed to provide in order for children to achieve: “being healthy, staying safe, enjoying and achieving, making a positive contribution and economic well-being”. In 2004 the Every Child Matters changed to Children Act 2004 which involved changes to the traditional social services bringing...
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...times. Human beings have basic needs such as the need to food, shelter and safety. They have the social needs such as the need for interpersonal connection, love, psychological needs. People often get to meet these needs through family, friends and places of worship, however while there are others who are not fortunate enough to meet these needs and that is where the role of human service role comes to help those people overcome these barriers in proper manner. Human service workers deliver a selection of services intended at improving clients’ lives. Among the roles of human service are caregiver, social worker, outreach, case manager, crises manger, advocate, as well as, and program coordinator. The Goal of Human Service: The goal of Human service is to teach communities how to become independent and assist them in developing skills that essential for them to become self- reliant, and function at their best level within the society. This process—which includes evaluating the client’s support system, environment, and values—is tailored to each individual’s needs (Moffat, C., 2011). Human services agencies are dedicated to helping people meet their basic needs as well as place them on the path to independence Human services agencies are dedicated to helping people meet their basic needs as well as place them on the path to independence. The chief goal of human service and social barriers as effectively as possible in the major domain of living(Martin, 2011). Human service...
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...Roles of social worker During very recent year’s attention has been devoted to the various roles that direct practitioners perform (or should perform) in discharging their responsibilities. Direct provision of services Roles subsumed under this category are those in which social workers meet face to face with clients or consumer groups in providing services these include: 1. Individual casework or counseling. 2. Marital and family therapy (may include session with individuals, conjoint sessions and group session) 3. Group work services (may include support groups, therapy groups, self- help groups, self-help groups, and skill development groups). 4. Educator/disseminator of information. The social worker may provide essential information in individual, conjoint, or group session or may make educational presentations to consumer groups or to the public. For example, social worker may conduct educative sessions concerned with parenting skills, marital enrichment, stress management, or various aspects of mental health or health care. System linkage roles Because clients often need resources not provided by a given agency and lack knowledge of or abilty to utilize other available resources ,social workers often perform roles in linking people to other resources. System linkage roles include the following 1. Broker. To perform the role of broker (i.e., an intermediary who assists in connecting people with resources), social worker must have a thorough knowledge of community...
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...I chose to watch the intervention episode for Amy W. Alcoholism, anorexia, depression and self-mutilation were the presenting problems of Amy’s that required intervention. Amy’s parents’ high expectations and unwillingness to show her love growing up started an unforeseeable problem. She was also molested at the tender age of eight by a neighbor but chose to never disclose to anyone but her high school friend Jessica. At the age of thirteen she indulged in self-mutilation to cope when she was upset. Determined to please her parents and gain to love from her parents she developed an eating disorder thinking if she was thin enough they would be pleased with her. As a result, Amy only eats 500 calories a day, drinks a ridiculous amount of liquor a day, and regularly self harm by cutting and burning herself with cigarettes. Additionally, Amy was date raped and has stolen money from her parents to feed her addiction. Amy is also in a codependent relationship with her friend Kathryn, who is also an alcoholic and they indulge each other. Amy and her daughters’ safety is a great concern for her family and friends and they are seeking to help her. A classical/crises intervention took place in order to address Amy’s problems and issues. The social works planned-change steps were used in the intervention to help Amy over come her vices and depression. In order to successfully help Amy her father, mother, two sisters, and two of her best friends were included. The steps were used at...
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...Unit Title | Social Work Futures in a Global Contexts | Unit Number | U22080-12YR | Unit Coordinator | Chris Penney and Annabel Tremlett | Description of work | Formative assignment | Word Count | 550 | Student Number (s) | 488901, 486768 | Date Submitted | 9th November | An Innovative Approach to Social Work Introduction The ‘ecological systems theory’ has been adapted to Children Services in New South Wales, Australia, as an approach to understanding the child in their context , which could be used to define a person’s behaviour in later life. This theory looks at how the child’s environment has an effect on their growth and development, providing a basis for how professionals can intervene in early years to support the child and family (Garbarino 1990, NICHD, 2000) (“Practice Grounded in Theory”, 2008). The model contrasts internal, individual or biological factors with external, social, environmental and relational factors (Wong and Cumming, 2008), implementing a holistic approach to the intervention. It combines the individual, the family and the community in underpinning issues that have contributed to the child’s development. For example, examining the child’s social factors could involve liaising with the school, the home, and other agencies, gaining an understanding of the whole situation. History of the ecological system This approach was evolved by Urie Bronfenbrenner in 1979 which looks at the different systems which could influence...
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...This essay will include an overview of my placement and the relevant client group who access the service. I will give a critical evaluation of the assessment process used within the service and discuss how risks were assessed and managed within the practice setting. I will explore the models of practice and the intervention strategy used and justify why this strategy was utilised in comparison to alternative models of intervention available. I will also identify relevant legislation and framework associated with the case and then provide an overall evaluation of my own practice as a student social worker. My current placement is based within a statutory organisation working with older adults with physical disabilities and cognitive impairments....
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...HLT 205 Policies With in Social Work Practicing policies through within the fields of social work has always been demonstrated throughout history. It has made a difference in the lives of many people who live in America today. There are many roles within social work that exercise the practice of policies that exist in social work. The practice of policy is present within in levels of local, state, and even national entities. To practice policy within this field, social workers are able to enhance themselves in their profession, enhance goal achievement and promote justice in the social economy. Most social worker’s careers begin with helping families. They exercise the policy of ethics by engaging clients when they need help, they assess the level of help needed, and they find a way to intervene on the issue without causing further complications. Once intervention takes place it is up to the social worker to monitor and help in the best way possible for the betterment of the individuals in need. Sometimes intervention may involve connecting people and families to resources within the community to meet particular needs, despite the fact that most social workers end up working with specific individuals in need. Usually, when a social worker monitors progress in a family it stems from the result of a necessary planned out intervention. Other times in the field of social work, progress may take longer because it may not be reached so easily. There may at times be situations...
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...“Assessment is the foundation of the social work process with service users” (walker and Beckett, 2003:6). Social workers are expected to carry out an initial assessment of situations they encounter before taking action. These are important because they provide the foundation for any plans to support , protect, manage or provide aid for a client. In a nutshell assessment is simply gathering information about people their situation , factors deemed relative to that situation and integrating this into a formal report, which will be used to look back on when carrying out a review. To intervene effectively, social workers need to make sense of clients and their situations. How do social workers figure out what is going on with clients? By assessment, that is assessing the client. Assessment is a very vital stage in social practise, with out it one cant solve client’s problem. During intervention , social workers have to find out various things about the c;lient like name problem age living environment , martial status, if he/she has children, legal history, individual characteristics( intellectual/cognitive abilities, emotional functioning), activies of daily living, social functioning, satisfaction with present job, brief family history, relationship with parents, colleagues etc., current financial situation etc. This applies to individual and the problem facing him at that particular time. Through assessment one gets the core problem facing the individual for example...
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...the information provided by the Social Worker. As a manager this a pet peeve of mine – Social Workers who come to me with a definitive opinion of how things should go, I agree with them and the next conversation I hear with the clients is the Social Worker saying “my manager says this has to happen”) Professional accountability is about developing one’s ability to make professional judgments based on information gathered during the course of working with clients. Unfortunately, this is a skills that is lacking. I am not sure if this is due to fear or unwillingness, I just know I have seen it more than I care to. Being a solid professional is very much about lettingyour experiences shape your practice and give you a firm foundation. It is about adjusting your interventions to meet the needs of your clients base. It’s about becoming stronger in what you do and allowing your experiences to not only make you more of a professionals but recognizing when your experiences identify gaps in your practice. The next step would be seeking out and undertaking training to address those gaps and make you a stronger professional. No one expects you to get this right the first time around but know yourself enough to be able to see you shortcomings and address them before others even recognize they exist. Stay ahead of the game and you move forward in your profession, creating a name for yourself as a professional with standards who is reliable and capable. Social Work is not simply a job. It is...
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