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Social Care Practice includes all professions whose goal is to help individuals conquer adversity related to physical, mental, environmental or lifestyle problems at any point in their lives. It involves a team of staff - both professional and non-professional - who support individuals in need of assistance, living in the community and in residential care. Social care is divided into child and adult services. Adult social care is the most rapidly growing portion of the sector and it is most…

ORIGIN OF SELF HELP GROUPS, PERFORMANCE AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION By R.BHAKTHER SOLOMON Development Consultant Introduction: In 1970 Paulo Freire in his book “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” used “Conscientization” as a Consciousness raising process to organise the poor. It is a popular social and education concept. Development professionals took a cue from this and thus came the principles of Education, Organisation, and Mobilisation as a strategy to empower the poor. Based on the local…

TInterdependence is term used to describe a relationship where two or more things are dependent on each other. Interdependence is a phenomenon that many scholars of humanities and the social sciences explore when mapping out social relationships and hierarchies. Taking a critical disability studies perspective, the livelihood of all persons is paramount and social interdependence will be a focus point. Social interdependence theorists have created three processes by which social interdependence…

According to the National Coalition for the Homeless, a homeless youth is one who is “under the age of 18 who lack parental, foster, or institutional care.” (National Coalition for the Homeless, 2008) Our youth are very valuable to how our nation will turn out. With that being said, one would think that the numbers of homeless youths would be low. However, this is sadly not the case. These kids are faced with many difficulties for being homeless, one of the biggest being education. Homelessness…

Principles Human Rights and Dignity. Human Rights and Dignity is the first principal listed in the Ethics of Social Work, Statement of Principles. Social work is based on “respect for the inherent worth and dignity of all people, and the rights that follow this” (IASSW & IFSW, 2004). The first principal of respecting the right to self-determination (4.1.1) states that a social worker should respect and encourage people’s right to make their own choices and decisions. (4.1.2) is the principal of…

Overview The Karen Healey, Becoming a trustworthy profession, concerns the practicalities of social work as a profession with emphasis on trust. Additionally it's intention is to illustrate how trust is a functioning pillar of social work as a profession and when broken can undermined it's intentions. An example given is the royal commission into abuse in institutions to demonstrate how a breach of trust can destroy reputations and trustworthiness of professions. Healey then goes onto…

Part 1 of The Children and Families Act 2014 contains provisions to go through with proposals made in ‘An Action Plan for Adoption: Tackling Delay’ (Department of Education, 2012). The government has made investments of four and half million pounds to end delays for children awaiting adoption; 4,060 children had an adoption decision but were not yet placed at 31 March 2015), on average adoption delays of one year and nine months (Department of Education, 2015). Longer delays were caused by…

I am a non-traditional female student in my fifties, I was born in Morocco, lived in France, Florida and now in California, I possess all the personal qualities that make me a good fit for the social work profession. I am a worldly person who lived and adapted to many cultures. I am a good listener, mature, honest, kind, and caring person. I pride myself on always being available to help family members, close friends, and even strangers. I enjoy helping other people and enjoy extending a…

Hortense Powdermaker’s book, Stranger and Friend, chronicles her experiences doing fieldwork throughout her career. In it, she discusses culture as shared meaning, where context and history give different components of a society social value. Through this process, essential qualities of a culture develop. The theory with which Powdermaker views culture, cultural essentialism, is one which uses these essential qualities as means of identification to form groups of people. This differs from…

The Royal Flush Most people want to make a difference in life and to the world, and we all have different ways of doing it. For instance, some people economize on food or choose to donate clothes to the people and countries with low financial circumstances, while others travel to countries in voluntary work to help and make this difference to the poor people. One of those people is Lindsey. Her adventure and the voluntary work in Bangladesh are described in “The Royal Flush” by Lori Pollock…