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Mental Health Parity Act: Interplay of Policy, Cultural And Societal Attitudes Within Clinical Social Work Practice

mental health arena. Anyone is vulnerable to the onset of mental illness which can be triggered by any number of occurrences, not...

Impact of Youth Violence on Communities and Social Work Prevention

victims knew each other" (Hammond, 1998). He was testifying before the Columbine shooting, but it only serves as a further example...

Elderly Privacy In An Institutionalized Setting: Ethical Issues And Social Work Involvement

need to be less oriented to rules and dilemmas, and more attuned to practical matters of everyday social experience" (pp. 19-22); ...

Disabled Persons And Social Security Disability Income

each pay period. The individual must have worked long enough to have paid into the program (Heard & Smith, LLP, 2008; Sloan, 2008b...

Social Work: Mission And Research

is vital to the industrys lifeblood; however, it may mean the difference between life and death within the practice of social work...

John Galtung/Theory and Methods of Social Research

located outside the social scientist himself, and we shall follow this tradition" (Galtung 9). As this indicates, Galtung does not...

Misunderstanding Homosexuality and Gay Relationships from Psychological, Biological, and Social Perspectives:

of development and socialization. For Freud, homosexuality in men appeared to be an example of a phenomenon he labeled as inversi...

Race, Social Class And Minorities

By casting a negative light toward, for example, being black, the criminal justice system clearly demonstrates a great deal of ign...

Global Environmental Problems: Social Responsibility

the twenty-first century. This lesson of not just integrating corporate social responsibility into an organizations infrastructur...

Social Failure in Tennessee Williams’ “Glass Menagerie”

In many ways the social failure of America as a whole at this time in history is symbolized by the personal failure experienced...

Vygotsky's Theory of Social Cognitive Development

4 The most important element of the process is the cultural aspects. The mediators will be specific to each culture, this...

The Social Construction of Gender Roles

in their lives or there is something wrong with them. Society also dictates the kinds of jobs that women can hold, if they have ...

The Role of the Social Worker

may treat addicts and want them to achieve sobriety, but a harm reduction approach may be much easier to achieve and actually acco...

LEGITIMACY THEORY AND SOCIAL CONTRACTS: AN ANALYSIS

section, well discuss ExxonMobil and how it behaved when its tanker Valdez ran aground on Prince Island Sound in Alaska. The compa...

Social Reform Legislation Since WWII

Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). This sort of organized effort was necessary in order to chip away little by little at the m...

Contextual, Cultural, and Historical Influences on Henrik Ibsen’s 1879 Social Drama, A Doll’s House

of Norway. Interestingly, Ibsen observed a year before the completion of A Dolls House in his text Notes for a Modern Tragedy, "T...

Social Justice, Wealth Inequality/A Catholic Perspective

a telling story related by economist Hannah Arendt that concisely conveys the basic philosophy of the Catholic Church in regards t...

Global Solutions for Health Care from a Social Work Perspective

their infrastructures are concerned, but health care is something that has severe ramifications. That is, the lack of health care ...

The Social Problem of Teen Pregnancy

rose from 40.5 births per 1,000 females aged 15-19 in 2005 to 41.9 births per 1,000 in 2006--a 3 percent increase" ("National Camp...

Romance, Desire and Social Norms

than she is now, so her meekness is both infuriating and false. Then we have the prince, who falls in love with her at the ball ...

Considerations in Social Work

stage. In "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life" Goffman (1997) presents his theories of "dramaturgy". He explains human in...

Social Resistance

educating his readership as to the importance of racial harmony. Gaines (1992) primary objective in this story is to point ...

COUNSELING AND SOCIAL WORK: SKILLS NECESSARY

for this is because the monetary rewards are not as high as they would be in other fields, especially for the hours put in....

The Politics and the Political Possibility of Global Social Movements

about feeding the hungry, like the ONE campaign, but they involve issues like debt forgiveness for small, poor countries. The worl...

"Pretty Woman" - Social Psychology Principles

blatantly flaunting his guest throughout the hotel lobby and enjoying the shocked reactions, he did so with the understanding that...

National Standards/Social Studies Performance

the classroom with assigned materials" (Leckrone and Griffith, 2006, p. 53). Considering this background, when a parent asks "At ...

The Ethics of Pricing and Access to Health Care: A Social Justice Issue

problem of expansive pharmaceutical pricing and the social impacts for the nations poor. The Scope of the Problem One of the m...

My Social Groups (A Personal Essay)

United Methodist Church, the DMV, Habitat for Humanity and the Republican Party are secondary groups that define who I am, but the...

Social Theory: Recreation, Leisure And Play

Peer Group Affiliation And Differences According To Residential Status, Subsistence Patterns, And Use Of Services" provide empiric...

Social Security Disability Appeal

of the 10 years prior to the application. The hearings for Title II benefits are administered by the Office of Disability ...