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    The Strengths Perspective in Social Work In social work practice the strengths perspective centers on the client’s abilities, talents and resources rather than their problems and deficits. The main objective of this approach is for the social worker to concentrate exclusively on identifying, drawing out and building on the clients’ strengths to assist them with their challenges and what there are trying to achieve. Although this perspective has been the focus for social work, other professionals…

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    DiCaprio’s current social engagement strategies are also effective for promoting social good because the information being presented is authentic as well as respectful. When DiCaprio engages with social media platforms, the information he presents typically involves protecting biodiversity, wildlands conservations, climate change and ocean conservation. These are his areas of expertise and the information he presents regarding these topics are well known by him and have significant research…

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    The “Fit” of Social Work as Profession for You “Marissa, what do you want to be when you grow up?” the question many people ask throughout my life and I’m pretty sure I wasn’t the only one who was asked this. My answer wasn’t social work, I didn’t even know what a social worker was until I was in middle school when someone described them as “kid’s snatchers”. I never bothered to look into it, I was too busy listening to my friend telling me about how a kid got taken away from their parents.…

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    Social Contract – Hobbes, Locke, RousseauAfter reading the three social contractarians, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, it is clear they each have different views on how to define a legitimate government, how to obtain one, what human nature is, and the social contract theory itself. The state of nature is a theoretical state in which there is no government formed yet. Each author speaks on how he believes humans interact or act individually in this state. The social…

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    In a time when society is more egocentric than ever, people must resist or conform to a form of life that revolves strongly around knowing what everybody is doing all the time through social media platforms. Ms. Ham and Mr. Standage focus on how trends draw people out of their normal social interactions and into a world that seemingly revolves around themselves (We Shall Overshare, Mary Ham 280). Their focus upon the false sense of attention that people get from sharing about themselves shows…

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    the true pathway to social class mobility, yet many working class people do not get these opportunities. Without an opportunity for upward social class mobility through education, many working class people remain in the working class. On the other hand, the upper class is afforded more upward opportunities to continue the pathway to maintain their social class through money, cultural upbringing, and societal influence. A college education can lead to more money and a higher social class, yet the…

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    cooperation (Sloper, 2004). However, today when looking at social work collaboration these walls seem to have been brought down as recent statistics show that most commonly, child protection referrals made to social services are received from multiple agencies with 26.4% from the police, 15.4% from schools and 14.9% from health services (Department for Education, 2015), these statistics also show that the collaboration between schools and social…

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    actions bring social impacts or, saying in other words, bear consequences, which affect the lifestyle of people, their work, personal relationships and communication within society. In turn, there is a term “social impact assessment (SIA)”, which is used to assess, analyze and control these effects. Social impact assessment can be applied to estimate positive and negative consequences in order to predict results from projects, programs or policies. This essay focuses on the analysis of social…

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    Social Media Young Girls

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    What social psychological factors are in motion when media is shown to young girls? As the study that was discussed earlier on what a healthy body should look like and what influences a healthy body, it states that the focus group explained many thoughts that go through their head when they are personally exposed to the culture of seemingly acceptable physical appearance. These thoughts created a shared theme relating to self-discrepancy and social comparison when presented with these…

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    The Social Model

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    and ideals of societies. This relieves the individuals with disabilities of feeling as if they are any less important, as society is to blame for their discrimination, rather than them being blamed for their disability as a burden on society. The social model finds inclusion is possible by introducing more accessibility for the disabled, and to improve upon societal attitudes to establish fair treatment of the disabled, and reduce discrimination and negative ideas of the disabled, so rather than…

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