Category: Social work

Overview and Instructions
You have now written four (4) case analyses. You will develop ONE for your second, and final, essay in connection with the topic you choose from below. You must answer all parts of the question to receive credit. Your answers need to be written as short essays (Each short essay will be 100 -200 words with the whole assignment at 1000-1200 words), so you need to include an introduction and conclusion and any quotations or paraphrases must be appropriately cited. In addition, it is important to think of this essay as a development of your previous work — you won’t merely copy over that previous work, and then add an introduction and a conclusion. Instead, you will use the feedback from me, along with your further reflections and review, to revise and expand the case analysis you’ve chosen for this final essay.
If you have questions about any of this please email me immediately.  You can also check out this material on philosophical essay writing.  
Topics
Welfare
In this essay you have 5 tasks:
Give a clear and concise explanation of the case at hand.
Give a thorough, philosophical exegesis of the relevant aspects of Walzer’s and Murray’sarguments. (Click here for some tips on how to do a successful exegesis.)
Present an argument applying the relevant philosophers to the case at hand. This should include an argument justifying who each philosopher would give the welfare to and why.
Present an argument explaining why one of the philosophers can be viewed as offering a more successful solution to the case at hand.
In no more than one paragraph, explain what solution you would propose for Rebecca and Jimmy.
Consider Rebecca, a single mother of 4 who has been a long-term welfare recipient.  Rebecca is a weekend meth user who often spends her money on meth.  However, without her welfare money, her children would not have any food or medical treatment and would most likely be placed in foster homes where their lives could become worse than they currently are. Rebecca’s yearly welfare application is due.
Now consider Jimmy, a veteran of both Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom.  During the battle, Jimmy was wounded and now suffers from some moderate physical disability and post-traumatic stress.  Sadly, although Jimmy tried to find a job, there weren’t many systems in place to help him re-integrate or work through his issues.  Each day Jimmy begs for money at his local off-ramp.  Through no fault of his own, Jimmy has fallen through the proverbial cracks. Jimmy applies for welfare.
You are the welfare overseer.  At most one person can get welfare. You can make ONE of the following three decisions:
Give the welfare only to Rebecca
Give the welfare only Jimmy
Don’t give any welfare
Healthcare
In this essay you have 5 tasks:
Give a clear and concise explanation of the case at hand.
Give a thorough, philosophical exegesis of the relevant aspects of Bradley’s and Peikoff’sarguments. (Click here for some tips on how to do a successful exegesis.)
Present an argument applying the relevant philosophers to the case at hand. This should include an argument justifying in which world each philosopher would place Jim and why.
Present an argument explaining why one of the philosophers can be viewed as offering a more successful solution to the case at hand.
In no more than one paragraph, explain what solution you would propose for Jim.
Consider Jim. Jim has worked in middle management his entire life.  He had the option of paying into his company’s managed healthcare system but decided he wanted to keep the money instead and invest it in case he ever needed acute medical treatment.  Unfortunately, on his 40th birthday, Jim decided to buy a red Corvette with that money.  6 months later, Jim went to a doctor to see why he was feeling so awful.  The doctor diagnosed Jim with emphysema, diabetes, and kidney failure.  All three of these conditions are the result of Jim’s lifestyle choices: smoking, poor eating and exercise habits, and excessive drinking.  These conditions are chronic and will require treatment for the rest of Jim’s life including cutting-edge lung and kidney treatments and weekly meetings with a nutritionist, endocrinologist, cardiologist, etc.
Here are the two possible healthcare “worlds” for Jim (he must be “placed” in one of them):
Participate in a universal healthcare system, paid for by income taxes, which doesn’t provide Jim with the latest and greatest medical technology but does meet basic standards of care.
Participate in a pay-for-service system, which allows Jim to pay for whatever treatment he wants and/or can afford but will not treat him unless he pays for the service.
Capital Punishment   
In this essay you have 5 tasks: 
Explain your understanding of the case. 
Give a thorough, philosophical exegesis of the relevant aspects of Kant, the ACLU, and Van den Haag’s arguments.
Present an argument applying the relevant philosophers to the case at hand. This should include an account of what each philosopher would argue should happen to Bob.
Present an argument explaining why one of the philosophers can be viewed as offering a more successful solution to the case at hand. 
In ONE paragraph, explain how you think we should treat Jim.
Consider Bob. Bob was raised by wolves (literally – don’t ask me how). Although his IQ would probably be normal, there is no way to test it, since Bob doesn’t speak or read any human language. One day, Bob emerged from the wilderness and ended up in downtown Long Beach. He was hungry (presumably) so he “found” some food in the normal wolf way: he stalked a mother walking her baby and, it was easiest to prey on the weaker, so he killed and ate the baby. There’s no question that Bob is “guilty” of the killing. He did it and there were lots of witnesses.
Affirmative Action
In this essay you have 5 tasks:
Give a clear and concise explanation of the case at hand.
Give a thorough philosophical exegesis of the relevant aspects of Pojman’s and Mosley’s theories.
Present an argument applying the philosophers’ arguments to the case at hand. This should include an argument justifying to whom each philosopher would give the job.
Present an argument explaining why one of the philosophers can be viewed as offering a more successful solution to the case at hand.
In no more than one paragraph explain who you would hire and why.
Consider a new position at the very prestigious Chronus Department of the Federal Government.  The Chronus Department examines how issues from the past have an impact on current affairs, and their new position aims at recruiting a new employee to be groomed to eventually because of the director of the department.  The ideal candidate would be someone who has a degree in some area of the humanities that deals with research, history, and culture, and who has a demonstrated ability to work well with others in a leadership capacity.  This position has an incredible benefits package including, healthcare, vacations, and a pension.
The Department has narrowed its selection down to two candidates:
Molly is an African American woman from a very affluent and politically active Texas family.  She attended Yale, where she earned an undergraduate degree in Anthropology with a minor in US Civics.  After graduating, she volunteered for two years in the Peace Corps, and then took a year off to tour around Europe.
Cameron is a third-generation Irish American from a working-class family in Pennsylvania.  After high school, he spent a year working with his father in a steel mill, but then decided he wanted to go to university.  He received a scholarship to Princeton, where he graduated with a degree in US History.  In his final year of school, Cameron was elected Student Body President and implemented a union for the teaching assistants.
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Should people with intellectual disabilities be mainstreamed (that is, be integrated into regular school classes) or be provided separate special education to meet their special needs? What are the pros and cons of each approach?

Post:
Briefly describe your experience working through the interactive media activity and your level of readiness to navigate each scenario as the social worker.
Select one scenario and describe two ethical tensions you observed in the interactive media activity.
Explain how the NASW Code of Ethics could inform your approach to the two ethical tensions. Cite specific ethical standards to support your response.

Students will present on one of the classical theories of leadership (“Great Man”/Trait, Behavioral Leadership Theory, Contingency, Situational, Participative, Management/Transactional, Relationship/Transformational).  The classical Theories  I chose is Behavioral Leadership Theory.
The presentation should include a basic understanding of the theory, history of the theory, main proponents of the theory, strengths and weaknesses of the theory in its use in a Social Work setting.  This will be presented to the class virtually.  This will require a PowerPoint presentation which includes a brief summary of your theory that will be available to the other students in the class. 

Submit a word .doc to the chapter one video the word doc must contain at least four paragraphs addressing the bullet points below 
1.Explain two sociology concepts covered in the films.2 explain what was interesting about the concepts and how the concepts and how the concepts relate to your life 3. Note whether there are any changes you will make as a result of seeing the videos.how to solve a social problem by Rosanne haggerty discussing strategies for tackling social problems. Micheal porter -why business can be good at solving social problems -how social sciences and humanities research can help overcome global problems 

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You
have three Case Studies labelled A, B and C. 
From these three Case Studies you have to use the child case (Case Study
C) and select one of the two adult cases (A or B) for further development. I want to choose case study A and B
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You
have a word limit of 2,750 words and these can be used however you want ie you
could use 1,000 words on one Case Study and 1,750 on the other Case Study.  However, it is important that you know why
you have chosen to do that and explain that in your submission.
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There
is no required format but the two you are most likely to choose between is a
report format or an essay format.
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For
each Case Study you are expected to submit a plan of what you would need
to carry out an assessment appropriately and to the right standard.  You also need to provide the details of at
least one intervention and preferably two.
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Plan
for Assessment:
You are
expected to identify what information you have already and any areas of concern
or positive contributions.  You are
expected to identify other information or material that is essential and
explain how you will collect it.  You are
expected to identify how long it might take to complete your assessment and to
identify what concerns or issues you feel might need to be explored or acted
upon before the completion of the assessment
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Intervention:
You are
expected to include as a minimum What Intervention, Why this particular
Intervention, When would it start/end, What do you expect it to do, What issues
or problems there might be and What impact are you hoping it will have.
NB      Please remember you are making a Holistic Assessment.  You will need to draw on evidence-based
practice, theories and models and information and material from across all of
the BA Social Work modules as well as from reading and understandings from your
own study and experiences

The purpose of this assignment is to investigate a social policy with some depth and explore the implications of that policy. This paper requires research on the policy itself as well as the historical era and events surrounding the development and implementation of the policy. You will also include a discussion of the intent, target(s) (behavioral and/or individual), ideologies, and impacts of the policy. Lastly you will evaluate the effectiveness of the policy (based on others’ research) and/or present an alternative policy or strategy to meet the policy’s stated goals.
Format:
The paper should cover the following 5 areas:
Identify a social policy
Provide some historical context of the policy (what was happening around this time and location) – was it during the progressive era, welfare reform era, etc.
Describe the social policy: how did the policy come to be? What social problem was it set up to solve? What was the target population or behavior of the policy? What were the eligibility criteria of the policy and what were the benefits and/or burdens of it?
Analyze the values (e.g. equality of opportunity) ideologies (protestant work ethic, paternalism, individualism, etc.) and/or moral theories (e.g. liberalism, Marxism, etc.) driving and/or supporting this policy.
Discuss the extent to which this policy achieves its aims and consider alternative strategies to achieve the goals of this social policy.  Also include running head page number,  and cover page. Refernce page must have hunging 

Spirituality is a form of coping for clients and their families.
Imagine that you are a new school social worker in a local urban school district. The assistant principal has sent you a referral and requested that you speak with a new teenage female student. In reviewing the referral from the assistant principal, you learn that student is a ninth grader who is from a small town. The student, May, is originally from Bandung, Indonesia. As you continue to read the referral, you uncover the fact that the student has participated in prayer several times a day. Many other students have used this participation in faith-based practices as an excuse for not completing assignments in their courses. The teachers have reported the student’s prayer time to be disruptive.
In your initial post, describe how you will address the issues presented in the referral, promote the well-being of the student, and follow up with the assistant principal.
Please use this source
Charzyńska, E., & Heszen-Celińska, I. (2020). Spirituality and Mental Health Care in a Religiously Homogeneous Country: Definitions, Opinions, and Practices Among Polish Mental Health Professionals. Journal of religion and health, 59(1), 113–134. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-019-00911-w
https://www.socialworkers.org/About/Ethics/Code-of-Ethics/Code-of-Ethics-English

Instructions
Social policy connects to all aspects of social work practice, even if the connections are not always immediately obvious. For this assignment, you will look at policy implications of a social problem that is important to you. Your goal is to find some of the federal, state, or other policies which affect the prevention of, interventions for, or understanding of your social problem.
To find a policy related to your social problem, navigate to the Encyclopedia of Social Workthrough the YU library (if that link doesn’t work for you, navigate to the main library website and then search “Encyclopedia of Social Work” in the search bar). You might have to look at a few articles to find what you need. Choose “policy” or “political” as a search option for “heading” or search on the topic of interest to you, something short like “health care” or “mental health” or “discrimination.”
Choose an article about a social problem of interest to you from the Encyclopedia and discuss the policy implications of that problem. Answer the following questions in your initial post:
What is the social problem, and why is it important to you?
What policy or policies affect the social problem?
How does this policy or policies affect the problem? (For example, do the policies contribute to the cause? How we intervene? How we understand the problem?)
What don’t you know about this policy or other policies that might relate to this problem that you would like to know?

Consider Western Expansion from the viewpoint of the American Indians and write a summary 
that explains its effects on their lives.