community organizing or development perspective try to tackle systemic problems that lead to negative social issues. Social policy attempts to study how society promotes individual and family welfare. Also, the policies tend to be consistent with what the government of the day views to be the most optimal way to help those who are disadvantaged and can't help themselves. A number of these social policies are incorporated in the works of community agencies. They include availing supportive services to the vulnerable members of society and coming up with long-term policies handling care services so as to help this disadvantaged demographic.
Serving Seniors Agency
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Social Policy: Child Abuse and Neglect
One of the essential components of the social work profession is safeguarding children from neglect and abuse. Professionals in this field work towards ensuring that children are protected from abuse and neglect in order to promote their development and growth into healthy, well-being adults. To achieve these goals, social work professionals carry out several initiatives including creating, implementing, and evaluating policy initiatives. The various initiatives adopted by social work professionals are targeted towards lessening child abuse and neglect as well as providing necessary resources… Continue Reading...
.....fellow colleagues provided a varied and thoughtful perspective on social work professionals and social policy. One thing noted was the lack of available resources for social workers regarding their clients. Often clients may come from a foreign background and require translation. This can be difficult because most people in the United States speak only English with some speaking Spanish and Chinese. Having tools available to make translation easier can lead to more effective communication and ability to help the clients in what they need regardless of potential obstacles like language.
When looking at the entirety of the social work profession, it was built… Continue Reading...
resolve this problem. Some of the policy alternatives that the government can adopt to resolve the problem include parity in health insurance policy, a general social policy that incorporates mental health, and an alternative care policy. An… Continue Reading...
ideology?
The sociologists, economists and philosophers who lived in the 1700s and the early 1800s created a political framework which guided social policy in England, later the United States, then Europe and finally other inhabited areas of the world. In all these regions, no one fully followed this framework (Adams, 2001; von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, 1997). One of the early influential liberals who lived in the United States was John Locke, the English philosopher. Analysing his political documents, which had a huge influence on those who produced the American Constitution, they spoke in support of popular leadership, the freedom to fight back against oppression and the freedom of small religious groups to exist… Continue Reading...
mental health care, social workers need to consider their role as catalysts for social policy reform.
Joe's case demonstrates the importance of three core elements of social work: competency, evidence-based practice, and client confidentiality. All three of these issues are covered by the NASW (2013) in its specific approach to mental health and substance use disorders. Competency refers to a working command of recent health care policy as well as best practices. Therefore, competency is linked with the concept of evidence-based practice. Evidence-based practice ensures that social workers rely on research to guide best practices, and that professional expertise is directly supported by… Continue Reading...
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not an economic policy and never really was, but rather a political and social policy. In that sense, once OPT has outlived its social and political useless, the fact that it was always rather useless economically becomes more of a blatant liability.
For its part, H&M should not care all that much. It will buy from the producer with the competitive advantage – the lowest cost producer that can meet quality specs. The OPT only matters to the extent that its existence causes tariffs on textiles from low-cost producing nations to be held artificially high as a means of propping up the OPT.… Continue Reading...
will seek to critically examine a number of sociological explanations for the 'divorce phenomenon' and also consider the social policy implications that each explanation carries with it. It will be argued that the best explanations are to be found within a broad socio-economic framework.
One type of explanation for rising divorce has focused on changes in laws relating to marriage. For example, Bilton, Bonnett and Jones (1987) argue that increased rates of divorce do not necessarily indicate that families are now more unstable. It is possible, they claim, that there has always been a degree of marital instability. They suggest that changes in the law have been significant,… Continue Reading...
