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Essays 391 - 420
for this is because the monetary rewards are not as high as they would be in other fields, especially for the hours put in....
stage. In "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life" Goffman (1997) presents his theories of "dramaturgy". He explains human in...
their infrastructures are concerned, but health care is something that has severe ramifications. That is, the lack of health care ...
work two weeks before and buys a bottle of no-name vodka. He sits on the side of a busy road with two or three of the older guys ...
The most vivid message of "The Corner" is the desperate situation under which the people of "the corner" exists. We find that the...
within social work. The most commonly used is cognitive-behavioral therapy in that it is the approach that is most direct i...
outreach efforts on the part of the social workers, this mother began to trust and, then, to incorporate the parental support and ...
workers should not be the secular priests in the church of individual repair; they should be the caretakers of the conscience of t...
and relationships with others. This same psychodynamic theory will be useful in helping NE with her relationship with her daugh...
sociological, psychological, medical or political situations which arise in the implementation of assessment of any service. Durin...
face. Social work, as a profession, attempts to identify the social and individual causes of problems people are facing and they t...
(Leason, 2002). The idea of joint working may have different manifestations, one of these may be the development of single ...
trained to discern as a species, inasmuch as the certain quality of perception required within the sensual world is decidedly uniq...
Joseph is a silent sufferer, however. He appears to be suffering ill effects of his treatment in Africa, and his present circumst...
little was done to assimilate these different cultures and little was done to help the new city population to understand and deal ...
2003). In fact, researchers have indicated that historically black colleges have about half the percentage of students participat...
p. 130). Figures from the early part of the century reveal that "50 to 66 percent of working families were poor and that a third ...
many motivated families waiting for help; the resistant families will call back when they finally feel the need; there is no need ...
to their personal narrative, and which allows opportunities for input from the social worker - not necessarily verbal - which clar...
- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...
of counseling in culturally diverse populations and the way in which this can influence the patient/therapist relationship. Perha...
factors as culture and even spiritualism in patient care delivery. While at one time nursing was a discipline which concentrated ...
to at an earlier time. Though assignment of levels 1 - 4 is subjective in that it is not solidly based on measurable results, the...
sessions, too many counselors assume the alienated attitude of "there are too many motivated families waiting for help; the resist...
that if a society views social workers and their clients as somehow less desirable members of that society, and if they dont like ...
experience, in such a way as to determine the rules that ought to govern human conduct, the values worth pursuing and the characte...
taken into account. This is itself mediates against the dogmatic and prescriptive approach to social work and towards a theoretica...
which are applicable to Lisas case, but also the ways in which they can best be enacted, given these constraints. One of the most ...
Nevertheless, Saleebey emphasizes that the strengths perspective does not endorse taking a "Pollyanna" approach to social problems...
1972). The rest of the stages, and their specific crisis, are as follows: the preschooler stage (years 3-5)-- initiative v. guilt;...