remain one of the major groups that the social workers encounter frequently. Social workers play instrumental roles in helping individuals‚ families‚ educational institutions‚ workplaces and communities to address addictions. Addiction affects people from diverse backgrounds‚ and helping professionals in virtually every area of practice encounter people with these problems. This essay discusses addiction in generic terms‚ and the methods that social workers can employ to address addiction-related
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Engagement Before selecting an intervention‚ a social worker must first engage the client by building rapport. Israel‚ Gorcheva‚ Burnes‚ and Walther (2008) interviewed 42 LGBT individuals in regards to their experience with therapy. Factors that influenced feelings of therapy included the therapists’ attitudes towards clients’ sexual orientation and gender identity (Israel et al.‚ 2008). Stage of identity development‚ social support‚ and confidentiality of the therapy setting also influenced
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The implement of technology in the social work arena has not been embrace fully in his potential. The advance in the technology field has increased rapidly and it seems that Social Workers are not able to keep up with the movement. I believe social workers are recently trying to embrace technology to enhance social work practice. To start it is ambitious to say that technology is available for all people in all different systems. Also‚ technology affects and enhance individuals differently. Additionally
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What do the terms social and economic justice‚ and social well-being means to you? To me‚ social and economic justice means fairness‚ where there is an equal opportunity provided for people without being deprive of their rights and privileges in the society. What do the terms human rights‚ discrimination‚ oppression‚ and poverty mean to you? Human right is the right for people to live as they desire to but should not be entrap to live a subjection life. Discrimination is created by different basis
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2How do you challenge discrimination to encourage change? Discrimination Questions Answers.com > Wiki Answers > Categories > History‚ Politics & Society > Society and Civilization >Discrimination * View Slide Show How do you challenge discrimination to encourage change? Discrimination Questions Answers.com > Wiki Answers > Categories > History‚ Politics & Society > Society and Civilization >Discrimination * View Slide Show Best Answer This
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SOCIAL CLASS CANNOT BE MEASURED/DETERMINED "A social class is a group of people of similar status‚ commonly sharing comparable levels of power and wealth. In sociology‚ social classes describe one form of social stratification." Cheggs (n.d)[online]. “A large group of people whose economic circumstances‚ usually measured by their incomes‚ wealth and occupation‚ are broadly similar” Earlhamsociology pages (n.d) [online]. Social class can be said to be the level which an individual or a group of
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Consent Consent is to authorize‚ approve or to permit for a medical professional to proceed with a treatment or health care. Consent has become a very important issues in the modern health care and‚ was noted earlier everyone’s right to refuse any medical treatment is now enshrined in the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 (Burgess. M‚ 2008). In Code of Health and Disability service consumer’s rights shows on right 7‚ that services may be provided to a consumer only if that consumer makes an
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order to satisfy the societal and cultural expectations and gain their identities. “Identities are multiple‚ feminist recognize that each of us can appreciate multiple aspects of our identity‚ identities include the many social categories we use to define ourselves” (Bromley 47). When it comes to identity‚ infertile women can be characterized as unable bodies. These women believe that they have lost their identity and in order to gain the ability to reproduce children these women turn to extremely
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condition‚ is called murder? Or should doctors be permitted to assist in the ending of a life if it is done with the consent of the patient even if there are clearly issues of suffering‚ terminal illness or quality of life?Are there conditions when doctors‚ caregivers or parents can intervene to end the life and suffering of a loved one even when that person is unable to give consent? In the 5th to 4th century BCE‚ the Hippocratic Oath was written‚ taken by doctors who swear to practice their medicinal
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Explain and illustrate Lockes universal consent argument. One account Locke unambiguously rejected from the outset is the supposition that human knowledge is innately inscribed. Noting the remarkably wide-spread agreement of individual human beings in their acceptance of both speculative and practical principles‚ the innatist argues that universal consent implies an innate origin. Locke’s response was two-fold: He denied the supposed fact of universal consent‚ supposing this to demonstrate the
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