Working with Disabled Individuals as a Social Worker
This article explains how social workers can communicate and assist in helping people with disabilities. People with mental or physical disabilities face many challenges in their lives. Social workers are trained and educated in helping them with these issues. The article explains what it takes to earn a degree with working with people with disabilities and resources to help decide if this career is for them. To find out if students going in to the social work profession and want to work with people with a disability, they should check out these resources to see if it with be right for them. The resources are disability statistics, knowing what disability means, and statistics by type …show more content…
Social workers that help with disabled people have many roles. They provide counseling, make sure that the client has stable housing and employment opportunities. These resources will help them if they choose this area of social work, they help assisted individuals with disabilities, provide them with information about benefits, make sure they understand their civil rights, ensuring their rights, and advocacy. Making sure that this is the career you want than studying and knowing this will help the student to have an understanding and the knowledge so that they will be able to help provide their client with the right information and make a better life for them. (University of New England)
Benefits for People who are Sick or have a Disability
Provided by the Citizens Information Board 2015
When people are sick or disabled they must be seen by a doctor. The doctor must certify them as sick or disabled. When they have been certified they then can receive social welfare payments, which those payments are made by either the Department of Social Protection or the Health Service Executive. People who are sick for a short …show more content…
In this article it talks about the ADA and how it protects people who suffer from traumatic brain injury. It also keeps them from being discriminated against, from being harassed, and from being denied the right accommodations in the workplace. TBI results when an outside force hits the head or causes the brain to move rapidly within the skull, leading to central nervous system damage and altered consciousness (Piek 2010). It is considered a growing health problem with many visits to the emergency room and even being admitted to the hospital. Social workers should have the knowledge of the legal landscape of TBI and ADA and may have questions to help assist in the counseling process. There are four questions that can help a social worker be successful with their case by learning from other successful cases and to let their clients know what they can expect and request from their employers. Social worker administrators need to be well aware and should participate in the ADA Coordinator Certification program so they can enhance their knowledge on the ADA. Social work practitioners need to have a substantive knowledge base so they can inform their practice. They also need to make sure that they know all the organizations so they can send the clients to the right places and they should educate them about the benefits. Case laws analysis is a mechanism so social workers can increase the
This article explains how social workers can communicate and assist in helping people with disabilities. People with mental or physical disabilities face many challenges in their lives. Social workers are trained and educated in helping them with these issues. The article explains what it takes to earn a degree with working with people with disabilities and resources to help decide if this career is for them. To find out if students going in to the social work profession and want to work with people with a disability, they should check out these resources to see if it with be right for them. The resources are disability statistics, knowing what disability means, and statistics by type …show more content…
Social workers that help with disabled people have many roles. They provide counseling, make sure that the client has stable housing and employment opportunities. These resources will help them if they choose this area of social work, they help assisted individuals with disabilities, provide them with information about benefits, make sure they understand their civil rights, ensuring their rights, and advocacy. Making sure that this is the career you want than studying and knowing this will help the student to have an understanding and the knowledge so that they will be able to help provide their client with the right information and make a better life for them. (University of New England)
Benefits for People who are Sick or have a Disability
Provided by the Citizens Information Board 2015
When people are sick or disabled they must be seen by a doctor. The doctor must certify them as sick or disabled. When they have been certified they then can receive social welfare payments, which those payments are made by either the Department of Social Protection or the Health Service Executive. People who are sick for a short …show more content…
In this article it talks about the ADA and how it protects people who suffer from traumatic brain injury. It also keeps them from being discriminated against, from being harassed, and from being denied the right accommodations in the workplace. TBI results when an outside force hits the head or causes the brain to move rapidly within the skull, leading to central nervous system damage and altered consciousness (Piek 2010). It is considered a growing health problem with many visits to the emergency room and even being admitted to the hospital. Social workers should have the knowledge of the legal landscape of TBI and ADA and may have questions to help assist in the counseling process. There are four questions that can help a social worker be successful with their case by learning from other successful cases and to let their clients know what they can expect and request from their employers. Social worker administrators need to be well aware and should participate in the ADA Coordinator Certification program so they can enhance their knowledge on the ADA. Social work practitioners need to have a substantive knowledge base so they can inform their practice. They also need to make sure that they know all the organizations so they can send the clients to the right places and they should educate them about the benefits. Case laws analysis is a mechanism so social workers can increase the