National Association of Social Workers (NASW) has established a code of ethics to help guide and direct professional behavior. Human services workers will face dilemmas all throughout their career and having this code of ethics will help them in the resolution. One issue that can become a dilemma for a social worker might be when client consent is not required to breach confidentiality. According to Ward (2002), ‘If the client is determined to be actively suicidal, a social worker must intervene, with or
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Task 2 Legislation/legal framework The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child Every child has the right to an education, to be healthy, to grow up safe and to be heard. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the child is a legally-binding international agreement setting out the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of every child, regardless of their race, religion or abilities. Since being adopted by the United Nations in november 1989, the CRC has received
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As a social worker, effective communication is significant, because it helps to build a relationship between the social worker and the client. Social workers communicate with clients as well as other professionals to obtain essential information that is relevant to the client’s needs. They are also responsible for making critical decisions that affects the lives of others and diffusing conflicts. Various types of communication are pertinent to social work. Communication is not only speaking. It
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“Where is my daughter, where is she? Where are my husband, and father?” She was left alone among the dead bodies and the heavy sand storms. Witnessing her two older children boomed in front of her eyes. Her tears forming a river down her pale face. Her hands shaking at the speed of her heart beat. Her hopes drained away along the Euphrates River. The sand storm left her blind, unable to see what is in front of her. The bursting of bombs left her deaf. She has officially lost all hope. She is my
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standardised work procedures to have workers perform repetitive; precisely defined and simplified tasks. Explain why companies use this approach to job design. Using the Job Characteristics model, describe how specialised jobs can be modified to eliminate the boredom and low job satisfaction associated with them. (Chapter 9) Introduction Job specialization reflects the degree to which tasks get broken down and divided into smaller tasks. Benefits include worker proficiency, decreased time between
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quickly to have time to make the right decision, and can cause some problems. Sometimes, you are put into a certain situation where the decision you want to make can’t come from feelings; it has to be the right decision. You are a social worker, you noticed a 20-year-old client who is suffering from depression, who drinks on a daily basis, and has thoughts about suicide. Although she tells you that she will not commit suicide because it would hurt her family, you are still concerned about
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As a professional involved as a case manager, this person may be involved with the client from the initial assessment through termination from services (McClam & Woodside, 2012). The case manager will interview the client to determine client strengths, needs and other factors (LaTorie Horn, 2015). Establishment of goals and objectives is a process imparted by the client and case manager together. This information will be used to develop a service or treatment plan that contain the client goals
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Critically evaluate the relationship between applying the law and social work values in a child protection case study in Northern Ireland case study. Social work is a value-based profession, and one of the core capabilities, at all career levels, is recognising, and where appropriate addressing, personal and professional values and prejudices. It is not uncommon, for the law to be seen as a critical component in developing provision and strengthening professional practice. According to the College
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My grandmother was a sort of pied piper for people in need of social services. When she entered a store, sat down on a bus, or went to the swimming pool to do laps, she would invariably manage to pick up the two people in the room who wanted to tell their life stories over and over at great length to a sympathetic stranger. My mother and several of her brothers inherited this particular gene, and so did I. I like people. I like their stories and their foibles, and I like hearing about their lives
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services experience anxieties about what will transpire between themselves and the social worker. Talking to stranger and revealing intimate details about their lives increases anxieties. These anxieties may be about differences in the status, race, gender, and class; how they will be viewed or accepted; the extent of control they will have over their lives; what their rights are; whether the social worker is able to separate who they are from their current difficulties; and what attributes will
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