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Poverty and Social Work - Research Principles and Proposal

variable is that which is changed by the independent variable. For example, suppose one wanted to determine the impact of light on...

Poverty in Rural China - The Impact of Social Work

might more evenly promote growth in all levels of society. This paper will present an overview of the issue of poverty and unequal...

Social Work Practice/Advanced Generalist Role

3). In regards to the change process itself, Kurt Lewin, in his pioneering work on this topic in the 1950s, has pointed out that...

Life and Death Ethical Decisions

man without getting help from the fire department or EMS. One is faced with an ethical challenge that requires weighing two sets o...

Persuasion and Ethics

of ethical considerations in the art of persuasion, Johannesen (2010) offers the scenario of a hypothetical speaker attempting to ...

Social Work Issues

its application Evidence-based practice (EBP) refers to the process of incorporating the findings of empirically-conducted resear...

Social Work Practice: An Overview of Topics

take if he or she wants to provide care in a rural context. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Social Functioning When social wo...

Social Work Then and Now

According to the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), the first social work class was offered at Columbia University...

The Relationship Between Personal and Organizational Ethics

ethics. Personal differences and preferences have the capacity to impact organizational ethics in a variety of ways. This is mos...

Gay Adoption Bans: An Ethical Look

social development of an adopted child (Averett, Nalavany, & Ryan, 2009). Averett et al. (2009) were able to determine through exp...

Four Dissertations on Interdisciplinary Social Work

as expressed through collaborative efforts, that seemed to exert the greatest benefit to the acquisition of communicative behavior...

Arguments in Favor of Gambling

times. However, not all societies approve of it or approach it in the same way. Since there is a great deal of criticism of it as ...

Drug Testing Pregnant Women Without Their Permission

University of South Carolina (MUSC), in cooperation with the city of Charleston, established a policy that enabled the city to pro...

Reproductive Health in the Future

if they simply want to bear children? This is an important ethical quandary that has presented itself during the twentieth century...

Two Classical Era Ethical Theorists on Animal Experimentation

comes to the living world as a whole, inasmuch as species perceive issues of control in significantly different ways. If utilitar...

African American Families, Noncustodial Fathers and Social Work Strategies

In twelve pages this paper examines the all too common scenario of African American families without custodial fathers in terms of...

Ideology of Prisoner Reform

In eight pages this paper examines penal institutions in a consideration of various ideologies and theories with Neo Retributionis...

Warren Massacre and Utilitarianism

if Nagel had included in this line, a hint at travesties such as the Holocaust, the reader may well become more concerned with the...

Alcoholic Patients and Liver Transplantation

In ten pages this paper discusses the access to liver transplants for patients who are recovering alcoholics from the philosophica...

Why Utility Pleases by David Hume and Sympathy's Role

In three pages this report discusses the utilitarian philosophy of David Hume in a consideration of the role of sympathy in 'Why U...

Family, Violence, and Social Work

Therefore, a revised definition of family emphasizes not the unit itself but the quality of relationship that exists within that u...

Abortion and the Philosophies of David Hume and Aristotle

In a report consisting of eight pages abortion is examined within the context of David Hume's utilitarian philosophy and Aristotle...

Social Work and the Impact of School Violence

practices that have developed within the past two decades. Latch-key kids, single- and no-parent families, emotionally absent par...

'Right Action' and Utilitarianism of J.S. Mill

(4). As he explained in Utilitarianism, this pursuit of the greatest happiness is not based on mere human selfishness, but rather...

A Philosophical Approach to Animal Rights

In five pages the categorical imperative of Immanuel Kant and utilitarian philosophy of John Stuart Mill are contrasted with the c...

Social Work and its Culture

In ten pages this paper examines the field of social work in terms of its culture. Seven sources are cited in the bibliography....

Politics of Social Work

In eight pages this paper discusses the political aspects of social work. Six sources are cited in the bibliography....

Economic Justice and Poverty

In five pages this paper examines poverty and economic justice from libertarian and utilitarian perspectives with theories by Jovi...

Social Work and Human Relations

first level of human relations issues addressed here is the relevancy of compensation for emotional labor. "Four general dimensio...

Spirituality and Death from the Perspective of Social Work

In a paper consisting of eight pages the inherent implications of social work are clarified as accepting individual beliefs and a ...