The University of the West Indies Open Campus NAME OF TEACHER: Mr. De Cotou NAME OF STUDENT: Gabriella James SUBJECT: Principles and Practices of Social Work lll INTRODUCTION Harry Aponte‚ ACSW‚ is currently a Professor at Hahneman University in Philadelphia‚ and is the Director of the Family Therapy Training Program of Philadelphia. Mr. Aponte is a family therapist with a special interest in the treatment of the poor‚ and many of the problems associated with poverty‚ including the
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Introduction High –Performance work practices (HPWP) is a perspective which can hold that effective organizations incorporate several workplace practices that leverage the potential of human capital. According to John Tomer‚ the essential characteristics of HPWP are employee security‚ selective hiring of new personnel‚ self-managed teams and decentralization of decision making as basic principle of organization design‚ extensive training‚ reduced status distinctions and barriers across levels‚ and
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1. Differentiate between a Social Issue and the Social Problems. Please provide three Bahamian examples for each. Social issues are political debates involving moral judgments about how people should live. (Brennen‚ 2013) Three examples of social issues in The Bahamas are gambling‚ teenage pregnancy‚ and homosexuality. Social problems are societal induced conditions that harm any segment of the population. Social problems are also related to acts and conditions that violate the norms and values
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FUNDAMENTAL ROLE OF REFLECTIVE PRACTICE IN LEARNING PROCESS Effective teaching does not only entail the successful use of certain instructional strategies and behaviours related to academic achievement‚ it as well includes the ability to determine just when‚ where as well as with whom these strategies and behaviours should be used. Having these considerations in mind‚ effective teaching necessitates high levels of informed as well as reasoned decision-making. Reflective teachers ought to have
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Children and adults experience the death of a loved one or a death of any person differently. In Nancy Boyd Webb’s publication‚ Social Work Practice with Children‚ she describes children’s cognitive development and understanding of death. Since the client is an eight year old who has lost her mother to breast cancer‚ I will focus on her age to understand Piaget’s stage and her chronological age understanding of death. For this eight year old girl‚ she is considered to be in Freud’s the latency-age
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The need for social work within the military should be a spotlight for the public‚ however‚ military issues have gotten more attention than in the past. People are aware of PTSD and TBI as common issues among the military‚ suicide and sexual abuse get attention as well. Important issues such as these should continue to receive public attention yet more common issues should be in the spotlight as well. Away from friends and family‚ dealing with finances and jumping into adult relationships usually
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1. I also would love to be able to assist my clients in designing a personal social action plan. I agree there are many injustices in the world and I would like to be there as a source of support for my clients overall. I imagine that it would be quite difficult‚ but that I could help advocate for those who need it the most. Advocacy work seems to be a less known part of working as a counselor. We all need to get more actively involved with these issues because it is in our best interest to ensure
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The concept of high performance work practices (HPWP) is the accumulation of four practices that produce the most value of human capital which are employee involvement‚ job autonomy‚ competency development‚ and rewards based on performance. As researchers McShane and Von Glinow (2015) have explained‚ employees are a major source of competitive advantage in the workplace. On that note‚ organizations are responsible in empowering employees by allowing them the freedom to make decisions and providing
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Alice Williams SOC350 July 15‚ 2009 Professor Gayle Van Dijk Final Assignment Southwestern Accreditation Facilitative Projects’ Collaboration The goal of an early childhood program is to prepare children from birth to five for kindergarten. According to the U.S. Department of Education‚ “The years before a child reaches kindergarten are among the most critical in his or her life to influence learning (Prepare My Child for School‚ http://www.ed.gov/parents/earlychild/ready/resources
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performance through reflective practice 4.1. Reflective practice is being self-aware‚ challenging and objective. It is also about recording and reviewing your learning and keeping track of your performance. Reflective practice means that we learn by thinking about things that have happened to us and seeing them in a different way‚ which enables us to take some kind of action. There are different types of reflection. Below are some different models of theories of reflective practice. Top of FormBottom
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